Small Wedding for Seville

Domestic and overseas titles are lying low this week, as a trio of wide-release action titles and thrillers arrive from Sony, Fox and Paramount. Sony’s Perfect Stranger, Paramount’s Disturbia and the Vancouver-shot Pathfinder, from Fox, make their debuts Friday alongside modest releases of Denmark’s After the Wedding and Monkey Warfare in Quebec.

Wedding — which lost its bid for Oscar bragging rights to The Lives of Others — arrives on three screens from Seville Pictures, playing at The Ridge in Vancouver and similar art-house screens in Ottawa and Toronto. This follows its March 30 release through IFC Films in the U.S., where it has played on five screens to an average of roughly US$14,000.

Reginald Harkema’s low-budget Monkey Warfare, meanwhile, will try its luck with French audiences on one screen in Montreal, arriving via Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm and a promo push that included local media appearances by star Don McKellar. The movie, about a pair of guerrilla warriors in hiding in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood, played to solid reviews but very low receipts in December when it arrived in English Canada through Odeon Films.