Alliance Atlantis’ Bon Cop, Bad Cop has busted the all-time Canadian box-office record for a domestic film, having hit $11.7-million over the Thanksgiving weekend to beat Porky’s long-held mark, even as another homegrown comedy made some opening weekend history of its own.

Trailer Park Boys The Movie grossed just shy of $1.6 million over its Oct. 6 opening long weekend (a per screen average of $7,826), besting the three-day $1.04 million opening for Men with Brooms, said to be the previous record for an English-Canadian film.

‘We’re delighted,’ says Mark Slone, VP of marketing and publicity at Odeon Films. ‘It’s right on with my expectations.’

The comedy, from producer Ivan Reitman and director Mike Clattenburg, opened on 195 screens across the country. Sloan says there are no immediate plans to scale back the release.

‘Its performance absolutely warrants continuing on with the same level of screens going into the coming weeks,’ he says.

While its opening performance is stellar by English Canada standards, the feature version of the cult Showcase comedy has a long way to go before approaching the record-breaking take of Érik Canuel’s Bon Cop, Bad Cop.

With box-office approaching $12 million after 10 weeks, Bon Cop is now Canada’s all-time highest-grossing film, surpassing Porky’s, which took the title in 1982 with a Canadian take of $11.2 million.

The bilingual Bon Cop, produced by Kevin Tierney, is distributed by Motion Picture Distribution and its Quebec sister Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm. It remained on 74 screens in English Canada for the week starting Oct. 6.

In other box-office news, Manufactured Landscapes, Jennifer Baichwal’s award-winning feature documentary about the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, has grossed over $51,000 since its Sept. 29 release at Toronto’s Varsity Theatre, where it brought in more than $20,000 over its first weekend. Since then, distributor Mongrel Media has added three more Toronto screens, with two to come in Vancouver on Oct. 20.