After bringing in more than $3.1 million over its opening week, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, distributed by Alliance Atlantis, continues to gain ground as the highest-grossing Canadian feature of the year, almost doubling its initial take in weeks two and three of its release.

For the week beginning Sept. 24, RE:A was the highest-grossing homegrown film at the Canadian box office. In fact, it was the third highest-grossing film in the country overall, beaten only by Joseph Ruben’s The Forgotten, which brought in $2.9 million in its first week in theaters, and Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which has brought in $2.6 million over two weeks. The action-horror movie, starring a zombie-killing Milla Jojovich, is reported to have cost US$50 million and is an 80/20 copro between Canada and the U.K.

As of Sept. 30, RE:A was screening at more than 200 theaters, bringing in an average $3,068 per theater. While the film’s total box-office take jumped from $3.2 million to $5.3 million between Sept. 16 and Sept. 30, its average has dipped slightly. It averaged $11,852 per screen over its opening week.

In other box-office news, Eternal, released by TVA on Sept. 24, enjoyed a strong opening week on 65 screens, bringing an average $2,353 per screen for a total box-office take of $152,974.

It is the first feature to come out of Montreal prodco WildKoast Entertainment and was written, produced and directed by Wilhelm Liebenberg and Federico Sanchez. Set in modern-day Montreal and Venice, the film is inspired by the true story of Erzsebet Bathory, a 16th century Romanian serial killer known as the ‘Blood Countess.’