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BOX OFFICE Norway

Norway’s 2020 box office records an historic 35.6% market share for domestic productions

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- Nevertheless, last year saw a 57.1% drop in admissions, according to figures published by the association Film & Kino

Norway’s 2020 box office records an historic 35.6% market share for domestic productions
Asphalt Burning by Hallvard Bræin

The Oslo-based cinema association Film & Kino has published the figures for the country’s 2020 box office. Despite a significant drop in cinemagoing (-57.1% admissions), caused by the shutdown of the cinemas between March and May and the newly enforced restrictions throughout the year, domestic titles secured an historic 35.6% market share, beating the previous record figure from 2018 (25.1%).

Overall, the 2020 national box office totalled 4.8 million admissions (as against 11.3 million in 2019) and made a profit of 557,743,079 Norwegian crowns (approximately €53,427,000). In detail, the highest-grossing title of the year was Hallvard Bræin’s Asphalt Burning [+see also:
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(285,904 admissions), distributed by the Norwegian division of SF Studios and released in October. Other successful domestic productions include Gunhild Enger and Rune SpaansTwo Buddies and a Badger 2 - The Great Big Beast [+see also:
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(214,419 admissions, ranked third), Johanne Helgeland’s The Crossing [+see also:
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(139,708 admissions, ranked seventh), Pål Øie’s The Tunnel [+see also:
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(135,736 admissions, ranked eighth) and Tove Undheim’s Twigson and the Sea Monster (129,950 admissions, ranked ninth).

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Finally, the foreign productions attracting the highest number of viewers were Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck’s Frozen 2 (283,403 admissions, ranked second), Sam Mendes1917 [+see also:
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(191,376 admissions, ranked fourth), Christopher Nolan’s Tenet [+see also:
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(188,416 admissions, ranked fifth), Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (150,748 admissions, ranked sixth), and Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi’s Bad Boys for Life (117,254 admissions, ranked tenth).

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