25/01/2016 - Helena Bergström’s A Holy Mess and Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove helped domestic releases to reach 3.4 million admissions

Last year, Swedish cinemas reached 17 million admissions, almost 5% up on 2014, mainly thanks to US blockbusters: local films sold 3.4 million tickets, 17% less than in 2014, to control 19.9% of the market, according to statistics published by the Swedish Film Institute. 

It was only a strong December performance by Swedish directors Helena Bergström’s A Holy Mess [+see also:
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As in Denmark, Finland and Norway, the top international release was British director Sam Mendes’ James Bond epic Spectre [+see also:
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Here is the list of Sweden’s top ten films of 2015: Spectre (839,503 admissions), Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens (829,667 admissions), Minions (668,244 admissions), A Holy Mess (599,211 admissions), Jurassic World (596,004 admissions), Fifty Shades of Grey (524,952 admissions), Inside Out (474,262 admissions), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (464,536 admissions), Fast & Furious 7 (439,333 admissions), A Man Called Ove (423,731 admissions).