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Cinema CEO Gives Update After ‘Poor Things’ & ‘The Holdovers’ Take Swedish Box Office Hit Due To Cyber-Attack
Filmstaden and several local companies were struck down by the hack, which had originally been aimed at Swedish IT provider Tietoevry.
The box office performance of buzzy awards season frontrunners like Poor Things and The Holdovers have taken a significant dent in Sweden as the AMC-owned Filmstaden, the country’s largest cinema chain, was unable to sell tickets to patrons due to a malicious cyber-attack. The hack struck Filmstaden and Svenska Bio as local cinemas were gearing up to welcome larger crowds as buzzy awards season titles, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, opened in the region. In a statement following the conclusion of the hack, Malin Lundstedt, Operations Director at Filmstaden, said: “Soon, we will also be releasing tickets for one of this year’s blockbusters, Dune: Part Two, which opens in theaters on February 28, so we are really relieved that our digital sales channels are now up and running again.”
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