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Highest admissions since 2003 for local films

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Admissions for Norwegian productions and co-productions passed the two million mark last weekend, making it the best results since 2003.

Last Saturday’s ”Big Cinema Day,” during which cinema tickets were half price, brought in an overall 172,051 admissions, up 6% from 2007 and one of the best results ever in the 19-year history of the event.

As of today, the most popular Norwegian film is Nils Gaup’s historic epic The Kautokeino Rebellion [+see also:
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(336,837 admissions), followed by Harald Zwarts’ comedy Long Flat Balls 2 (293,057), Mats Stenberg’s chiller Cold Prey 2 [+see also:
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(242,123) and the award-winning youth drama The Man Who Loved Yngve [+see also:
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(174,147 admissions).

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Last weekend, the comedy Fatso kept its second place in the top ten with 81,401 admissions in total in its second weekend for Scanbox, and the animation film Kurt Turns Evil, released by Nordisk Film, opened in third place and 36,894 admissions from 72 screens.

”We are very happy about this progress [in cinema admissions] that shows a wonderful rallying around Norwegian films,” said the Norwegian Film Institute’s Managing Director Nina Refseth. ”October in particular has been unusually good for cinema going. Now we look forward to the two last months of the year, which will see the release of Max Manus”.

The film about a WW2 Norwegian resistance hero should bring in healthy returns for production house Filmkameratene (Pathfinder, Head Above Water). Directed by filmmaking duo Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning, behind the Luc Besson produced Bandidas, Max Manus will hit Norwegian screens on December 19.

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