Danish cinemas heading for new audience records
- More audiences in the theatres, and more are watching Danish films, according to the Danish Cinemas Association
As of August 2, Danish cinemas had registered 7.9 million admissions in 2015 (including 2.4 million for Danish films)- more than half of the 14.1 million tickets they sold in 2009, the best result since 1981.
“So we expect in the end to break two records – the attendance for local films, and the number of audiences in general,” said managing director Kim Pedersen, of the Danish Cinemas Association.
Led by top attractions such as Anders Thomas Jensen’s Men and Chicken [+see also:
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“No doubt Kasper Barfoed’s Summer ’92 will gather a large number of Danes, paying tribute to one of our greatest sport triumphs, and comedians Casper Christensen-Frank Hvam will be similarly saluted for their Klovn Forever [+see also:
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Starring Ulrich Thomsen, Allan Hyde, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Cyrin Melville, Summer ’92 [+see also:
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Otherwise, US pictures have dominated the charts, and “it is a long time since we have seen so many American Films on the Top Ten list.” First Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey and James Wan’s Fast & Furious 7, then Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, Kyle Balda-Pierre Coffin’s Minions, and Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation.
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