– Hard Core holds strong

Tim Bishop, director of operations for Toronto’s Everest Entertainment, says Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo is holding strong in Vancouver and Toronto, although the numbers are smaller than hoped for in other centers.

The picture pulled in $17,500 on two screens in Vancouver on its opening weekend there, starting Oct. 11. It opened on 17 screens across the country Oct. 18, pulling in $66,500 for the weekend. As of Oct. 29, 15 prints were still out – including the Oct. 25 opening on one screen in Ottawa – totaling $114,000 at the box office.

-New hit at Que. B.O.

The Georges Mihalka comedy L’Homme Ideal earned over $100,000 on 36 screens in Quebec on the three-day Oct. 25-27 weekend, bringing its cumulative box office after four weeks to $807,000.

Liste Noire, Louis 19, le roi des ondes and Matusalem are the only Quebec-produced films to have passed the magic $1 million mark at the box office in the ’90s.

L’Homme Ideal is produced and distributed by CFP Distribution and stars stand-up comic Marie-Lise Pilot as a thirtysomething career woman in search of the perfect mate.