Opening week was kind to Jeremy Podeswa’s Fugitive Pieces, which earned nearly $100,000 for Maximum Films Distribution since bowing May 2 alongside Paramount Pictures’ Iron Man and Sony’s Made of Honor.

The Holocaust-themed drama, based on the Anne Michaels novel, generated a healthy per-screen average of $5,041 on 19 screens, and placed third on the chart of Canadian-mades for the week ending May 8. South of the border, where it is handled by Samuel Goldwyn Films, Pieces has made US$216,000 to date, according to Box Office Mojo.

The drama, produced by Serendipity Point Films, follows a man trying to come to grips with the horrors of his past during World War Two. It added two screens this week in Oakville and Waterloo, ON for a total of 21.

Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr., was the number one film overall in Canada for the week, with over $10 million in ticket sales, while the week’s other new U.S. release, the romantic comedy Made of Honor, managed $1.8 million.

Meanwhile, TVA Films’ Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2 held on to top spot on the Canuck-made film chart for the third week in a row, adding another $340,000 to its total. The sci-fi sequel has earned nearly $1.5 million since opening April 18.

Equinoxe Films’ drama Maman est chez le coiffeur, which also opened May 2, followed Galaxie with $237,000 in ticket sales, for a per-screen average of $5,600. Rounding out the chart is KinoSmith’s Up the Yangtze, which added more than $12,000, while the large-format doc Dinosaures 3D: Les géants de la Patagonie inches closer to the $1-million mark with a cumulative total of $848,000.