Last weekend was one of the fairly rare weekends when the Canadian Boxoffice didn't mirror the US one. The #1 movie in the US was the Departed but in Canada it was Trailer Park Boys. It's great that Canadians chose to patronize a Canadian movie. It did about 1.3 million on 200 screens, a pretty good number. I doubt the budget was very high so it may already be considered a hit.
Trivia: Ever wonder why Canada isn't mentioned when newspapers etc, say how movies did in various foreign countries? Canada's box office is dumped in with the US numbers. Every night Western Film faxes it's numbers to a couple of the box-office tracking companies and they get added to the North American Box office totals.
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