Animated Feature LOTTE dominates National Box Office Charts in Estonia


Stuttgart, November 01, 2006

Since the beginning of September, animated feature Lotte from Gadgetville is topping national box office charts of Estonia. Now in its 8 week of release, the film ranks already on third place of best box office performance of the year, only beaten by Ice Age 2 and Da Vinci Code. "We expect the film to outperform Da Vinci Code which has 60.000 admissions", comments Riina Sildos and Solveig Langeland. “We have after 7 weeks 54.000 admission and are still running strong”.

Lotte outperformed films like Cars, Robot, Shark Tales, The Incredibles, Garfield as well as many other Hollywood films and will be the best National Film for 2006 in Estonia.

Estonia is a full member of European Union with total of 1.3 million inhabitants.

For comparison:

Estonia: Box Office results
since 1993 – 2006: 		animation features (dubbed in Estonian language)Admission (theatrical)
Ice Age 2 129 000
Lotte from Gadgetville
(in release *) 		54 000
Garfield 2 43 000
Shark Tale 31 000
The Incredibles 29 000
Cars 28 000
Robots 25 000

About the film:
Lotte from Gadgetville follows the adventures of Lotte the dog, Bruno the cat, Albert the rabbit and Susumu the Japanese bee, in a town where inventing new things is a hobby, and a way of life!

Sola Media / Atrix Films are handling all international sales. The film has been pre-sold to Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, and Sweden.

German release date has been set for February 27, 2007.Please contact us for a meeting and screening time at AFM now.

Contact:
Sola Media at AFM
Loews: 866 / 867

("Albert")

Sola Media / Atrix Films
Solveig Langeland, Beatrix Wesle
Tel. +49170 41 13 766
post@sola-media.net; info@atrix-films.com