For only the second time this year, an English-Canadian film has grossed more than $1 million at the domestic box office, and it did so after only two weeks in theaters.

As of Sept. 7, CHUM’s teen flick Going the Distance, directed by Mark Griffiths (Hardbodies), had grossed $1.3 million and was playing on 60 screens across the country, for a per-screen average of $3,328, up slightly from its opening weekend average.

It took more than 15 weeks in theaters for Vancouver filmmaker Mark Achbar’s feature doc The Corporation, a platform release by Toronto-based Mongrel Media, to pass the $1-million mark.

Odeon released the coproduction from CHUM’s MuchMusic and Vancouver’s Brightlight Pictures on Aug. 20. The teen comedy chronicles the cross-Canada adventures of a group of friends trying to get to Toronto in time for the MuchMusic Video Awards.

For the week starting Aug. 27, Going the Distance was number one on the list of Canada’s top five grossing films, a list generally reserved for French-Canadian features, such as the Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm releases Elles etaient cinq and Camping Sauvage, which rank second and third, respectively, for the same week.

Camping Sauvage, Vivafilm’s major summer release, remains the highest-grossing Canadian film this year, with a total box office of more than $4.3 million. For the week starting Aug. 27, the per-theater average for the feature comedy from directors Sylvain Roy, Andre Ducharme and Guy A. Lepage, who also stars, sat at approximately $2,100 from 37 theaters.

Elles etaient cinq, cowritten and directed by Ghyslaine Cote and produced by Maxime Remillard, opened the Montreal World Film Festival on Aug. 26. It was released theatrically on Aug. 27 and grossed just over $161,000 from 11 Quebec theaters by the end of its first week, for an average $14,639 per theater.