Native movies are on monitor to document a powerful market share on the Danish field workplace in 2025, at the moment monitoring at 40% – the best share in an everyday cinema 12 months since data started in 1980.
The 40% share is up from 24% final 12 months, and is simply overwhelmed by the 50% share in 2020 and 42% in 2021, when the pandemic warped field workplace and launch schedules.
The subsequent-closest figures to this 12 months’s 40% had been 32%, recorded in each 2005 and 2008. The general determine is probably going drop barely by the tip of the 12 months as a result of launch of Disney’s Avatar: Hearth And Ash in Denmark on December 17, however will nonetheless finish above all years bar 2020 and 2021.
The 40% market share for Danish movies is effectively above the native share in neighbouring Sweden, at round 9%, and even above France, which usually has Europe’s highest native market share and is at the moment at 35%.
With two weeks of the 12 months remaining, 3.7m tickets have been offered for Danish movies – a 68% enhance on final 12 months. Total ticket gross sales have additionally elevated by 3%.
32 Danish function movies have been launched within the territory – the best quantity ever, on a par with 2005. As of Monday, December 15, six of the most-watched movies in Danish cinemas this 12 months are Danish productions.
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Native successes in Denmark this 12 months have included household animation Checkered Ninja 3, which scored the third-largest opening weekend in Danish field workplace historical past, promoting over 200,000 tickets and over 700,000 throughout its run.
Danish stalwart Anders Thomas Jensen additionally recorded his best-selling movie so far in his homeland with The Final Viking starring Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, additionally topping 700,000 in ticket gross sales.
The Venice out of competitors title was one in every of a number of competition movies to search out an viewers this 12 months, alongside Magnus von Horn’s Cannes 2024 Competitors title The Woman With The Needle with 236,000 tickets offered; and Frelle Petersen’s Berlin 2025 Panorama entry Residence Candy Residence with 190,000 tickets offered.
Danish household movies have additionally proven a resurgence this 12 months, with 11 such titles launched – up from three every in 2023 and 2024. Household movies recorded 1.2m ticket gross sales – the strongest 12 months since 2018. Exhibitors will hope that development continues into 2026, with early-year releases of Danish household titles Curly Burly and When Mumbo Jumbo Grew Large.
“2025 exhibits what Danish movie can obtain when expertise, ambition and robust cultural coverage assist for Danish cinema align,” stated Tine Fischer, director of the Danish Movie Institute. “The traditionally excessive market share displays an viewers that exhibits each belief in and curiosity concerning the originality of Danish storytelling, and a movie trade that’s recovering after years of adverse financing challenges.
“With an formidable Danish movie coverage, there’s now a basis to safe Danish movie’s place because the nationwide focus for the foremost tales that resonate extensively, in addition to for brand spanking new skills who problem us and lift questions. With humour, braveness and inventive risk-taking, 2025 has delivered related and revolutionary tales which have appealed to cinema audiences throughout the nation and throughout all age teams.”
2025 additionally noticed the launch of a brand new Dogma filmmaking manifesto at Cannes, titled Dogma 25. 5 Danish filmmakers are making low-budget options by way of the manifesto, with the motion backed by Danish corporations Zentropa, Nordisk Movie Distribution, broadcaster DR and the Danish Movie Institute.
