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Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Bon Cop, Bad Cop<\/a><\/i> has passed Porky\u2019s<\/i> (1982) to become the top-grossing Canadian film within Canada, ever:<\/span><\/p>\n

Alliance Atlantis also announced Tuesday that Montreal-made bilingual action-comedy \u201cBon Cop Bad Cop\u201d has passed \u201cPorky\u2019s\u201d to become the top-grossing local film ever in Canada. \u201cBon Cop\u201d has grossed $10.2 million since its launch Aug. 3, with ticket sales of $8.1 million from its French version and $2.1 million from its English version. \u201cPorky\u2019s,\u201d which was released in 1981, grossed $10 million in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This does not make it the top-grossing Canadian film ever, per se<\/i>, though, since Porky\u2019s<\/i> raked in a lot of American moolah for a combined $105.5 million gross, and Bon Cop, Bad Cop<\/i> hasn\u2019t even opened south of the border yet \u2014 and there\u2019s a good chance it never will. And then of course there\u2019s inflation to consider.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, this bit of box-office news comes at the end of an article on the success of Trailer Park Boys: The Movie<\/a><\/i>, which grossed $1.3 million over the three-day weekend \u2014 that\u2019s slightly higher than the figure I reported here<\/a>, but at any rate, it\u2019s one of the biggest openings ever for an English-Canadian film, and enough to rank the film #11 for the weekend<\/a> in North America, if the North American charts had bothered to include it. And who knows \u2014 eventually, they might; the Canadian Press<\/a> reports that negotiations to release the film stateside are in the works.<\/p>\n

OCT 11 UPDATE: And now this Canadian Press story<\/a> claims: \u201cSales for \u2018Bon Cop, Bad Cop\u2019 have totalled $11.3 million across the country, beating out the raunchy Florida-set 80\u2019s comedy which cashed in $11.2 million at the Canadian register years ago.\u201d So there\u2019s another<\/i> set of figures, just to confuse us some more.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Variety reports that Bon Cop, Bad Cop has passed Porky\u2019s (1982) to become the top-grossing Canadian film within Canada, ever: Alliance Atlantis also announced Tuesday that Montreal-made bilingual action-comedy \u201cBon Cop Bad Cop\u201d has passed \u201cPorky\u2019s\u201d to become the top-grossing local film ever in Canada. \u201cBon Cop\u201d has grossed $10.2 million since its launch Aug. 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