The latest release from Canuck distributor ThinkFilm has brought in $300,000 at the Canadian box office since opening Oct. 24, not a bad showing considering the film is a three-hour-long version of a story many people have already heard a thousand times.

The Gospel of John, a word-for-word rendering of the New Testament tale from producers Garth Drabinsky and Chris Chrisafis for Visual Bible International, was shot in Spain and Toronto last winter.

‘We expect the film to reach $500,000 in Ontario alone, and to hit $1 million overall in Canada,’ says Michael Baker of ThinkFilm. The $20-million feature is currently showing on 11 screens, all in southern Ontario.

Directed by Philip Saville, the film premiered at TIFF 2003 and garnered more than US$239,000 on 15 screens in the first 10 days of its U.S. release on Sept. 26.

The Spanish/Canadian copro My Life Without Me, starring Sarah Polley, continues to show promise. On Oct. 31, the film, released by Odeon, hit two screens with an opening weekend take of $15,620 and as of Nov. 16 has added one more screen and increased its box office total to $59,859.

Love That Boy, part of the Seats 3a & 3c series from Halifax prodco imX communications, opened on Nov. 14 on one screen in Toronto and another in Vancouver, bringing in $4,285. Toronto’s Mongrel Media distributes the feature from director Andrea Dorfman.

In its 11th week, Gaz Bar Blues is still showing on four Quebec screens and as of Nov. 16 had earned a total of $712,563 (all Quebec figures exclude tax). Sur le seuil remains on 32 screens and its total box office rose from $1.4 million on Nov. 2 to over $1.6 million as of Nov. 16.