Local films hit jackpot at B.O.
by Annika Pham
No less than three local films are in the Top 5 this week in Norway. Playing Wide [+see also:
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The comedy about six men working in a garage who go on a trip to support the Norwegian team at the World football championships was produced by Zwart Arbeit and distributed by SF Norge.
Two local children’s films released by Columbia/Nordisk Film took the third and fifth position in the Top 5, respectively: Svein and the Rat, produced by Maipo Film & TV, has now gathered 95,284 admissions, while the new adventures of the The Junior Olsen Gang at the Circus, directed by Petter Næss, has now been seen by over 223,064 people, making it the third most popular film of 2006.
Another Norwegian film, High School Teacher Pedersen by Hans Petter Moland, was number 7 in last weekend’s local chart and is the fifth most popular film of the year with 155,232 admissions.
Today’s 10 new openers include Jacques Audiard’s The Beat My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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