Domestic attendance for Finnish films increased 52 percent in the first two months of 2012, reaching 670,000 admissions.
Finnish films took 42 percent of the total 1.6 million admissions in January and February. Leading the list were the family musical comedy Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy (www.kinotar.com) with 236,450 admissions in the five weeks since its release, and The Storage (www.nordiskfilm.fi) had 180,766 admissions in January and February.
Overall cinema admissions were up 23 percent over 2011.
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