18/01/2012

Selling 484,000 cinema tickets, Danish director Martin Zandvliet’s A Funny Man [+see also:
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Danish comedies dominated the overall list of Top Ten films, including Niels Nørløv Hansen’s The Reunion [+see also:
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Mikkel Nørgaard’s Clown: The Movie [+see also:
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Preliminary statistics from the Danish Distributors’ Association (FAFID) published by the Danish Film Institute show that the 3.5 million tickets sold for domestic productions (2010: 2.9 million) contributed to the year’s total of 12.6 million, which is 400,000 less than the previous year.

”The most cinema-active age group was audiences between 15-24 years old, while the 50-69-year-olds were under-represented,” concluded an institute survey. ”International blockbusters have a good hold of the 15-24 and 25-49 segments. 47% of the tickets for foreign, 31% for Danish films are sold to the the 15-24-year olds.”