Dragon Tattoo and Antichrist put their mark on top 10
by Annika Pham
The two Scandinavian event movies of the year, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [+see also:
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Dragon Tattoo, the first Millennium film, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, continues to hold amazingly well across Scandinavia and has now passed the 2.7m overall admissions mark in four Nordic territories. It stayed in fourth place in the Swedish top ten last weekend (1,166,295 total admissions) and seventh in Norway (502,957 total admissions).
In Denmark, the film was number 10 with total admissions at 953,862 after 15 weeks. In Finland, where the Millennium trilogy was slightly less popular, the film has sold over 68,000 tickets so far after 11 weeks.
Release last weekend in Sweden, Norway and Finland, a pure arthouse movie with a 10+ print run, Lars von Trier’s Antichrist got a good per screen average, carried by a good publicity and the curiosity factor. The horror film just made it into the top ten charts in Sweden and Norway, selling respectively 2,852 tickets from 10 screens, and 1,737 tickets from 11 screens.
In Finland, the film was platformed on one screen that totally sold out. In Denmark, Antichrist slid from third to sixth place in its third week, but still had the second best screen average after Terminator Salvation. Total admissions are at 43,722 so far.
New European films opening today in Denmark include French hit Welcome to the Sticks [+see also:
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