Though it has performed below expectations on both sides of the border, the Steve Carell comedy Evan Almighty was tops at the Canadian box office last week, generating $2.4 million for Universal Pictures.

The $175-million sequel to 2003’s Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey, debuted on 275 screens to a per-screen average of $8,771. In the U.S. it has made less than half of the $68 million Bruce took in its opening weekend, according to Variety.

Evan bested the previous number one, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which added another $2.3 million in its second week in theaters.

The Dimension Films horror 1408, carried here by Alliance Atlantis, debuted at the number three spot with $2.2 million. The week ending June 28 also saw the arrival of Paramount Vantage’s A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie, which came in at number 10 with nearly $567,000 on 94 screens.

Among Canadian-made releases, Filmoption International’s Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture fell to number five on the chart, after the documentary made a surprise debut at number two for the week of June 15-21, playing on one screen at Montreal’s artsy Ex-Centris theater.

‘It’s now in its third week at Ex-Centris, which is quite a feat for a 52-minute documentary,’ Filmoption’s head of sales and acquisitions Natasha Rabina tells Playback Daily. The film is about renowned Canadian architect Phyllis Bronfman Lambert.

Meanwhile, Away from Her from Mongrel Media and Capri Releasing remains at number one, adding another $45,944 last week for a total box-office take of $1.1 million, while the Mongrel doc Manufacturing Dissent, about director Michael Moore, landed in theaters a week ahead of his Sicko at number three. It made $3,806 on three screens.

Rounding out the top five for the week is Christal Film’s A vos marques…Party! at number three after 13 weeks, and Dinosaures 3D: Les géants de la Patagonie from Quebec’s Sky High Entertainment, at number two.