The Norwegian pirate movie Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama has got further reason to celebrate, after its producers revealed it has now been sold in more than 100 countries.
Storm Films managing director Frederik Howard said that there were still more countries to come, adding that worldwide distribution was what they were aiming for.
The movie company and its two co-producers spent 50 million Norwegian kroner (US$6.2m) on the production, escalating it to the most expensive ever children’s movie in the history of Norwegian filmmaking.
IMDB estimates that the movie has to date brought in US$7m at the box office, meaning it has already recorded a small profit, most of which was in Norway where it was the fourth most successful movie last year with 365,902 admissions after being released in September.
It has now been released in nine other countries – including Sweden, Turkey, UAE, Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman and Estonia – pulling in around 40,000 viewers. And producers will be hoping that when it opens in Germany on 7 May it will be able to attract an even larger audience.
Howard admitted that success in Germany, where there is the potential to sell hundreds of thousands of tickets, would be fantastic. He added that there was also a high chance they would go ahead with a number of other movies in the series.