Kids and comedy drive Dutch box office
Last year was an excellent year for the Dutch film industry, with local films representing 13.5% of all ticket sales in 2007, or about 3 million entries – the best result in a decade.
The romantic wintertime comedy Love is All [+see also:
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It was the only local film geared towards adults that made a splash at the box office besides the Dick Maas comedy Moordwijven, which was released just before Christmas and currently stands at €2.5m in box office receipts.
All other titles with over 100,000 admssions were aimed at children and based on previously available material. Timboektoe and De scheepjongens van Bontekoe are adaptations of youth novels, Ernst, Bobbie en de geslepen Onix and Zoop in Zuid-Amerika are based on TV series and Where is Winky’s Horse?, the opening film of the Generation sidebar at the upcoming Berlinale, is a sequel. Like its predecessor Winky’s Horse, the holiday-themed film attracted over 350,000 spectators.
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