On the weekend of January 1 to 3, 2021, the drama 'Den største forbrytelsen' (over 11 thousand admissions) was the most viewed cinema movie in Norway. In second and third place came the animated movie 'Arctic Dogs' and the Norwegian family film 'Dragevokterens jul'. Due to a renewed rise of coronavirus cases in the country - especially in Oslo - many public venues have been closed, including cinemas in the capital. As a consequence, admission numbers were relatively low.
Although the
cinema ticket prices increased in the last years - on average from 86.57 Norwegian kroner in 2010 to 119.8 Norwegian kroner in 2021,
admissions in Norwegian cinemas remained stable and in 2019, the number of moviegoers amounted to roughly 11.29 million. The number of admission declined drastically however after 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Based on admissions, the
leading cinema chain in Norway was ODEON in 2021, with a market share of 30.1 percent, followed by Nordisk Film Kino (24.2 percent) and Kinoalliansen (16.3 percent).