Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness has garnered more than one million admissions outside of Sweden just five weeks after its international launch and is tracking higher than Ostlund’s previous Cannes 2017 winner The Square in those territories.
At home in Sweden, Triangle has posted admissions of 87,927 for SF Studios as of October 30. This compares to The Square’s final tally of 192,300 and Force Majeure’s 187,900.
The film has been a particular hit in France, where Bac Films tallied 443,000 admissions in its fourth week, already surpassing the final count of 350,000 admissions for The Square in 2017. This is despite the French box office tracking 39% lower this year compared to 2019.
Curzon released in the UK this weekend, with box office receipts of £219,121 and previews of £89,829, both well above The Square which had £154,503 for its opening weekend, plus previews of £66,712. Triangle becomes one of the top three highest openings for Swedish films at the UK box office, behind the original versions of The Girl Who Played With Fire (£404,000) and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (£378,000).
For the North American release via Neon, the film has earned nearly $2.3m after its fourth week – which is more than three times the result at that same timeline for The Square. Triangle was in 12th place overall in North America this weekend, on Friday (October 28) it expanded to a hefty 610 screens.
So far, all released territories show an overall increase compared to The Square in admissions of between 13% and 220%, with an average of 60% among territories. This increase comes despite the challenges facing the exhbition sector this year, with box office significantly down in most countries in the wake of the pandemic.
Of course, The Square was mostly in the Swedish language and Triangle Of Sadness is Ostlund’s first film mostly in English, and features a household name actor in Woody Harrelson.
In Germany, Alamode has clocked 121,000 admissions for Triangle – which is 56% above The Square in its second weekend.
Triangle is so far up 162% compared to The Square in Belgium, where September handles the release and after four weeks has seen 50,000 admissions.
Denmark has hit 76,260 of admissions as of Oct 30; well above The Square’s performance at the same stage. The Square had 120,000 total Danish admissions in 2017.
The Palme d’Or winner, sold by Coproduction Office, yet to be released in Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Triangle Of Sadness is produced by Erik Hemmendorff for Plattform Produktion, the Swedish company he founded with Ostlund, alongside Philippe Bober for co-producers Essential Films and Coproduction Office.
Other partners are Imperative Entertainment, Film i Väst, BBC Film, 30WEST, SVT, ZDF/Arte, Arte France Cinéma and TRT Sinema with support from Swedish Film Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, The Danish Film Institute, MOIN - Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig Holstein and BFI, with participation from Nordic Film & TV Fund, DR, Arte France, Canal+ and Cine+. The film is produced in association with Heretic, Bord Cadre films, Sovereign Films and PIANO.
The highest-grossing Palme d’Or winner of all time is Fahrenheit 9/11 while Parasite is the highest-grossing non-English language Palme d’Or winner.
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