March 09, 2006
Take That, Hollywood Box Office Slump!
(Posted In Continental Europe and Russia Drama Film News Trailer Alert )
In just two months Finland has bested their admissions total for local films for all of 2005 combined. Why? A little film called Matti: Hell Is For Heroes has clocked in as a major box office smash, putting just under a million bums in seats in the first two months of 2006. Evidently in Finland bad hair metal plus competitive ski jumping equals massive box office success.
Matti Website
Mattie Trailer (downloadable Quicktime)
» Posted by Todd at March 9, 2006 11:03 AM
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Did you just use the words 'bad' and 'metal' in the same sentence?
» Posted by web-monkey at March 9, 2006 03:14 PM
Am I surprised that phrase drew the web-monkey out of the woodwork? No, I am not.
» Posted by Todd at March 9, 2006 10:35 PM
The film's success probably has more to do with its subject matter - former ski jumper Matti Nykänen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Nyk%C3%A4nen), who is easily Finland's most notorious celebrity. It's a pretty wild and uncompromising biopic, so it's no wonder that it's drawing crowds.
» Posted by sharkbait at March 10, 2006 01:51 AM
Over 400.000 have seen the film in it`s native land. The film is beeing shown as part of Kosmorama, The International Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway in the period 24 - 30 of March. Looking forward to it!!
» Posted by Kk at March 10, 2006 04:06 AM
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