Domestic films fared well in Finland in 2024
The first quarter of 2024 started strong for domestic films in the Finnish box office.
Image: Stormskerry Maja / Antti Rastivo, Solar Films
The number one hit of the year, Stormskerry Maja, premiered in January and got almost 470,000 admissions over the course of the year. The Swedish-language period drama made its director Tiina Lymi the most watched director in Finnish cinemas in the past 10 years.
Other Finnish hits premiering in the spring were the two comedy series spin-offs Luottomies-elokuva: All in (dir. Kari Ketonen) and Kyllä isä osaa –elokuva (dir. Panu Raipia), placing third and seventh on the admissions list. The most popular Finnish children’s film was Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Chicken (dir. Reetta Aalto), which premiered in February and was number eight on the list. The biggest hit in the autumn was Long Good Thursday (dir. Mika Kaurismäki) which premiered in September and was number nine on the list.
One million admissions for domestic films was surpassed already in early March, and the total number of domestic admissions for the year was 2.14 million, 31.6% of all admissions (6.78 million). The box office for all films amounted to 89.5 million euros, just under 27.4 million euros for domestic films.
The most popular foreign film, Inside Out 2, took second place on the list with 381,000 admissions. Other animated films did also well: Despicable Me 4 was fourth on the list, and Moana 2, Kung Fu Panda 4 and the Finnish Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights also broke 100,000 admissions.
There were 236 premieres in total of which 48 were domestic premieres (33 fiction / 15 documentary). 79 of the premieres were American films, which accumulated 53.7% of the admissions. 21 of the premieres were British, 15 French, 12 Swedish and 12 Japanese.
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Finnish cinema admissions TOP 20 in 2024
Film | Admissions in 2024 | Total admissions at the end of 2024 | Premiere | Director | Production country | Distributor | |
1 | Stormskerry Maja | 469 334 | 469 871 | 19.1.2024 | Tiina Lymi | FI | Nordisk Film |
2 | Inside Out 2 | 381 212 | 381 212 | 17.7.2024 | Kelsey Mann | US / JP | Walt Disney Studios |
3 | Luottomies-elokuva: All in | 324 485 | 324 485 | 16.2.2024 | Kari Ketonen | FI | Nelonen Media |
4 | Despicable Me 4 | 287 602 | 287 602 | 28.6.2024 | Chris Renaud, Patrick Delage | US | Finnkino |
5 | Dune: Part Two | 257 998 | 257 998 | 28.2.2024 | Denis Villeneuve | US / CA | Warner Bros. |
6 | Deadpool & Wolverine | 256 131 | 256 131 | 24.7.2024 | Shawn Levy | US / CA / NZ / AU | Walt Disney Studios |
7 | Kyllä isä osaa -elokuva | 223 051 | 223 051 | 28.3.2024 | Panu Raipia | FI | Nelonen Media |
8 | Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Chicken | 181 955 | 181 955 | 16.2.2024 | Reetta Aalto | FI | SF Studios |
9 | Long Good Thursday | 176 171 | 176 171 | 6.9.2024 | Mika Kaurismäki | FI | Nordisk Film |
10 | It Ends With Us | 175 173 | 175 173 | 7.8.2024 | Justin Baldoni | US | SF Studios |
11 | Moana 2 | 148 382 | 148 382 | 27.11.2024 | David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller | US / CA | Walt Disney Studios |
12 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | 148 307 | 148 307 | 22.3.2024 | Stephanie Stine, Mike Mitchell | US / CN | Finnkino |
13 | Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights | 109 570 | 109 570 | 11.10.2024 | Kari Juusonen, Jørgen Lerdam | FI / DE / DK / IE | Nordisk Film |
14 | Gladiator II | 102 788 | 102 788 | 15.11.2024 | Ridley Scott | US / GB | Finnkino |
15 | Joker: Folie À Deux | 88 368 | 88 368 | 4.10.2024 | Todd Phillips | US | Warner Bros. |
16 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | 78 477 | 78 477 | 5.6.2024 | Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah | US | SF Studios |
17 | Anyone But You | 76 939 | 83 714 | 27.12.2023 | Will Gluck | US | SF Studios |
18 | The Garfield Movie | 74 646 | 74 646 | 24.5.2024 | Mark Dindal | US / GB / HK | SF Studios |
19 | My Name Is Dingo | 73 868 | 73 868 | 25.12.2024 | Mari Rantasila | FI | Nordisk Film |
20 | Wonka | 73 115 | 159 097 | 8.12.2023 | Paul King | US / GB | Warner Bros. |