Ma fille nears $2 million

Audiences in Quebec are still flocking to see Ma fille, mon ange — the French-language thriller about Internet pornography — which continues its reign atop the box office for homegrowns for the second week, adding more than $621,000 in total receipts for the frame ending March 1.

The film, released by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, added another $242,670 over the March 2 weekend, for a solid total box office just shy of $2 million. Ma fille stars Karine Vanasse as a college student who gets tangled up in the world of online pornography, as her father (Michel Côté) tries to track her down.

On the opposite end of the genre spectrum is the comedy Nos voisins Dhantsu, from Christal Films, which debuted in the number two spot with $230,487 for the week ending March 1. The film, which follows the antics of two Quebec standup comedians as they travel to Japan, added an additional $116,940 over the weekend, for a respectable $347,574 in total box-office earnings.

‘We’re satisfied with [Nos voisins‘] performance over its second weekend, which dropped only 30% from the first,’ Christal spokesperson Julie Armstrong-Boileau tells Playback Daily, adding that there are no plans to expand to English Canada yet. ‘We will wait two or three weeks, then we will meet with the producers to decide what we will do in English Canada,’ she says.

Rounding out the top five films for the week among Canadian-mades are Congorama with $69,537, Partition with $24,756 and the arty TVA Films release Dans les villes, which managed $6,853 in its first week on three screens in Quebec.