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Canada AM: After 25 years, Porky's meets its match

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Date: Wed. Oct. 11 2006 7:23 AM ET

TORONTO — After 25 years as reigning champ at the Canadian box office, "Porky's" has finally met its match.

The action-comedy flick "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" surpassed the 1981 teen comedy in sales this week and took over the title of most popular Canadian film at the Canadian box office. Sales for "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" have totalled $11.3 million across the country, beating out the raunchy Florida-set 80's comedy which cashed in $11.2 million at the Canadian register years ago.

"We made this film without any pretensions, but with the hope that people would find it funny," said director Erik Canuel. "We succeeded in attracting a much larger audience than we could have ever imagined."

"Bon Cop, Bad Cop" has coined itself as the first successful bilingual film in the country. The half-French, half-English film involves two cops, one from French Montreal and another from Toronto who try to solve a murder mystery that originates at the Quebec-Ontario border.

"The goal of the film was to be the first completely bilingual production to entertain audiences from coast to coast," Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, the company that distributes the film in Canada, said in a statement. "We are proud to say that we have achieved our goal."

But it seems that most of the sales may have come from only one coast. Ninety per cent of sales for "Bon Cop" came from ticket sales in Quebec.

The Montreal-shot film grossed over $9 million at the Quebec box office - more than the Hollywood blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" - and around $1.4 million in the rest of the country.

But some in the industry say the national results for "Bon Cop" outside Quebec are far from disappointing. In a market where Canadian films often fail to gross even a million dollars, the success of "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" stands out.

"I am totally thrilled by this incredible success," said Colm Feore, one of the actors in the film.

"I suppose this somehow means that we have become the new pigs on the block," said producer Kevin Tierney, taking a poke at the film they just beat out.

But "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" is already facing stiff competition from another Canadian film.

"Trailer Park Boys: The Movie", released over the long weekend was the 11th top-grossing film in North America in its opening weekend, even without American theatres.

It's in wide release in Canada, playing on more than 200 screens and has grossed an estimated $1.3 million over the long weekend alone.

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