Perkele! Finland Box Office

[juni78ukr]

In February I wrote box office report  for our movie site about Nordic countries in 2012. The growth was really impressive. Those Ricky Rapper movies are silly but still likable. I wonder will they make another one.

Edited September 17, 2013 by juni78ukr

[Jack Nevada]

In February I wrote box office report  for our movie site about Nordic countries in 2012. The growth was really impressive. Those Ricky Rapper movies are silly but still likable. I wonder will they make another one.

They actually just wrapped shooting the third one, which has a new cast and a new director. It comes out next spring.

 

I personally think the movies are super-annoying but I'm glad they're making money for the finnish film  industry.

[juni78ukr]

They actually just wrapped shooting the third one, which has a new cast and a new director. It comes out next spring.

 

I personally think the movies are super-annoying but I'm glad they're making money for the finnish film  industry.

 

You must be mistaking. Three films were already released by now. 

Risto Räppääjä 215,619 admission in 2008

Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras 328,023 admissions in 2010

Risto Räppääjä ja viileä Venla 309,942 admissions in 2012.

[Jack Nevada]

You must be mistaking. Three films were already released by now. 

Risto Räppääjä 215,619 admission in 2008

Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras 328,023 admissions in 2010

Risto Räppääjä ja viileä Venla 309,942 admissions in 2012.

Ah crud, sorry. A fourth one. I cant keep up with this crap lol.

 

Posting some finnish BO numbers today as soon as I get them, btw

[The Stingray]

Swedish box office for 2012 (in admissions, couldn't find revenue):

 

1. Skyfall - 1 045 000

2. Hobbit - 834 000

3. TDKR - 718 000

4. Ice Age 4 - 596 000

5. Breaking Dawn 2 - 522 000

6. Hamiltion (Swedish) - 513 000

7. Hunger Games - 429 000

8. Puss in Boots - 436 000

9. Avengers - 429 000

10. Intouchables - 407 000

[Jack Nevada]

Swedish box office for 2012 (in admissions, couldn't find revenue):

 

1. Skyfall - 1 045 000

2. Hobbit - 834 000

3. TDKR - 718 000

4. Ice Age 4 - 596 000

5. Breaking Dawn 2 - 522 000

6. Hamiltion (Swedish) - 513 000

7. Hunger Games - 429 000

8. Puss in Boots - 436 000

9. Avengers - 429 000

10. Intouchables - 407 000

Those are some crazy numbers.

[The Stingray]

Those are some crazy numbers.

How so?

[Jack Nevada]

How so?

The numbers are big, even compared to the finnish numbers

[The Stingray]

The numbers are big, even compared to the finnish numbers

You have 5 million people, we almost have 10.

[juni78ukr]

Ah crud, sorry. A fourth one. I cant keep up with this crap lol.

 

Posting some finnish BO numbers today as soon as I get them, btw

 

It's probably the same old story. Many Russian movie lovers hate local movies, especially comedies. But some foreigners might find them amusing. Our comedy though are much worse.

Edited September 23, 2013 by juni78ukr

[Jack Nevada]

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Edited September 23, 2013 by Jack Nevada

[Jack Nevada]

Small update on Finnish Box Office:

 

Biggest opener of the weekend: The Heat (57,086 euros) 

                                                    Identity Thief opened with €77,785 (adjusted to dollars)

                                                    ID finished with $283,604, but The Heat is better so I expect the legs                                                     will be longer. Should do at least $500,000

 

Other opener: Jobs (46,885 euros) 

                       Hitchcock opened with €31,335 (adjusted to dollars)

                       Jobs opened on 51 screens with a €919 PTA. Should finish with like $200,000 max

 

Other things:

 

*We're the Millers dropped only 16%. Its on its way to 1,5M or maybe even 2M. Best PTA of the weekend too.

 

*Rush is doing worse than I expected. It dropped 38%, which isn't bad but I'm sure they expected more. It'll total will be around $300,000 - 400,000

 

*Blue Jasmine had another decent drop. It might beat Midnight in Paris ($600,000) for the highest grossing Woody Allen release in Finland.

 

*The Conjuring is having better legs than Mama, which is currently the highest grossing horror movie this year. The Conjuring will beat it easily.

 

 

Edited September 23, 2013 by Jack Nevada

[CJohn]

Le wild bump. 

[terrestrial]

Le wild bump. 

 

Thank you fr that one..... still shocked to see the thread title's name. (Finland and Suomi I searched for)

 

If someone is interested, I added a bigger post about the actual BO results... in the mixed countries thread.

 

The last entry's date before the bumb looks a bit ... behind, is here interest for Finland's BO details?

[Purple Minion]

Top 10 of 2015 so far in Finland, as per @ScreenDaily: 

 

[Marathon]

Hi!

 

Time to resurrect this thread, and for a good reason: local war pic The Unknown Soldier (which premiered in late October 2017) just passed 1 million admissions! The first movie to do so since Titanic. In fact, only five movies in the whole history of Finland have crossed the 1m mark.

 

Titanic will be safe in 3rd place all-time admissions (1 114 954 with the re-release), and, barring a re-release for The Unknown Soldier (currently at 1 002 463 admissions), so will 1968's local pic Here, Beneath the North Star (1 020 000, a rough estimate as official statistics only begun in 1970), in 4th place.

 

Still, getting over 1m admissions and cementing 5th place on the all-time list for the foreseeable future is remarkable in this day and age of box office. Yes, the movie obviously benefited from being part of the centenary celebrations of Finland, but in my opinion the performance is still definitely in the uppermost echelons vis-à-vis expectations. And what's been quite heartwarming have been the non-trivial grosses obtained from neighboring Sweden. Having said all this, the movie needed to do well because it is the most expensive Finnish movie ever made with a budget of about €7m.

 

In other box office news from last weekend:

 

Jumanji crossed 100k admissions. Nothing spectacular, but alright.

 

Black Panther and Coco both opened, and the results are a mixed bag:

 

BP opened with 26k admissions. Quite modest, but on other hand it played on the fewest screens (73) out of all of the three major openers (BP, a local comedy, and Coco) and got the most admissions, so it's not all bad (depending on the legs of course).

 

Coco's opening performance was a flat-out disappointment, there are no two ways about it. It had the most screens (122) but posted the lowest admissions out of all of the three major openers with slightly under 19k. One glimmer of hope for Coco is that local reviews have been pretty fantastic across the board, so if word of mouth is in line with the reviews, Coco has a chance to recover in the coming weeks.

[Marathon]

Black Panther dropped 18.2% from last weekend. The overall admissions are at 65.6k.

 

Coco actually increased from last weekend by 5.4%. I'm assuming the word of mouth is thus very, very good. The overall admissions are at 54.7k. Will be very interesting to see if Coco can increase again next weekend or at least stay flat.

[Marathon]

Black Panther dropped 33.5% from last weekend. The overall admissions are at 91.9k. Next weekend will be crucial for its long-term chances to maybe even catch last year's most popular CBM, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (123.5k admissions), but, indeed, BP will need to have an extraordinarily good drop.

 

Coco dropped 35.5%. Unfortunately, it's looking like last weekend was something of a flash in the pan for Coco instead of a great upturn in form. Hopefully next weekend will be better, because at the moment it's not looking like Coco will have much more than 100-105k admissions at the end of its run - a disappointing total for a Pixar release with great reviews.

[Marathon]

The weird and wild ride that is Coco at the local box office continues. After last weekend it looked like it had burnt up most of its demand and would start falling off, but instead, it sprang a surprise and went to number one, upsetting Black Panther's 3-week streak at the top in the process.

 

Indeed, Coco fell only 12% from last weekend to grab number one spot, the first such during its run. The overall admissions are at 92.9k. Since this has been such a crazy unpredictable run so far (a lukewarm beginning -> an increase -> a somewhat big drop -> a very soft drop to grab number one), I'm not even trying to guess what will happen next weekend.

 

Black Panther fell 33% to 2nd place. The overall admissions are at 107.7k. Unless BP falls off a cliff in the coming weeks (unlikely), then it should beat last year's most popular CBM in Finland, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, in terms of admissions (123.5k).

 

As was expected, and as it was trending on the top-selling tickets' list, The Shape of Water increased a massive 141% from last weekend to grab 3rd place. The overall admissions are at 48.9k. Since this was such an unusual weekend for the movie (a massive increase due to the Oscars win), it's hard to say anything about the next weekend. It's still trending high (2nd, actually) on the top-selling tickets list, so it might not suffer a harsh drop. We'll see then.

 

The only genuinely bad bit of box office news comes from the opening performance of local comedy Hevi reissu ("Heavy Trip" in English). It had the most screens (106) out of any movie playing but got only 7.7k admissions. In fact, The Shape of Water posted more admissions (7.8k) on far fewer screens (75). Hell, even Red Sparrow wasn't that far off despite playing only on 44 screens, with 6k admissions. Unless Hevi reissu starts increasing massively - and I mean massively - in the coming weeks, it is set out to be an absolutely mammoth box office bomb. With these type of admissions, it would have been a huge bomb even with a "normal" cost for a mainstream Finnish film (approximately €1m), but since it cost at least €3m to make - one of the most expensive local comedies ever, maybe even the most expensive ever - this could be an unprecedented bomb in the history of Finnish films, at least for comedies.

 

Whoever greenlighted the film can only blame themselves, though. The subject matter, heavy metal, while of course popular in Finland, is still too niche to have four-quadrant and/or crossover appeal in cinema, so to give that type of niche comedy, even if broad in execution, a budget of €3m seems absolutely bonkers to me. The timing of the release is also pretty catastrophic because the hype hadn't yet been building up all that much, and there was stiff competition from two comedies already playing in the cinemas, a local one, and, of course, Game Night. Since Hevi reissu is apparently playing at the SXSW festival, they really should have waited until whatever possible positive reactions/prestige they got out of there before releasing the movie here. Now we might have the absolutely bizarre situation where an (way too) expensive local comedy is going to rely almost solely on overseas grosses to get into the black - IF it gains traction overseas.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Marathon

[Marathon]

A quiet weekend in terms of newcomers. Tomb Raider got number one but with lukewarm 11.6k admissions. Lady Bird (7th place on the weekend) opened with an ok-ish (for an indie dramedy) 5.5k admissions. Nothing to get particularly excited about, to be honest. TR isn't trending high on the top-selling tickets list, so I would imagine its run here will be short and rather unspectacular. LB I guess could go either way from hereon out, depending on word of mouth. At least the local reviews have been great.

 

The holdover business was much more exciting. Coco (3rd on the weekend) and Black Panther (4th on the weekend) continued their great runs. Coco dropped 23% as it crossed the 100 000 admissions milestone, with overall admissions now at 102.5k. Black Panther dropped 23.2% and is at 119.6k admissions. It is now guaranteed to go past last year's most popular CBM in Finland, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, in terms of admissions (123.5k).

 

The Shape of Water (5th on the weekend) dropped 37.6% - an ok drop considering last weekend was a big increase. The overall admissions are at 57.7k. 100k admissions are probably out of reach unless it starts staying essentially flat the following weekends.