The buzz and controversy surrounding Young People Fucking may have paid off at the box office for Maple Pictures, despite some hefty competition from Universal’s The Incredible Hulk.

The Canuck comedy with the crass title made away with $110,000 in its opening June 13 weekend for a respectable per-screen average of $3,000. Young People, about the sexual escapades of five couples, is currently playing in all major cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal. It arrived with an aggressive push from Maple.

‘We’re all very happy with this weekend’s results and hope that great word of mouth will continue,’ a Maple spokesperson tells Playback Daily, adding the distributor will ‘certainly try’ to hold on to Young People‘s 36 screens. The comedy marks the feature directorial debut of Vancouver’s Martin Gero, who also penned the script with actor Aaron Abrams.

The Incredible Hulk, starring Edward Norton, rang in an estimated US$54.5 million in North America, falling slightly short of the $62-million opening weekend of Ang Lee’s 2003 version, Hulk, but is expected to have stronger legs.

In the previous week, Alliance Films’ The Stone Angel climbed to the top of the chart among Canadian-made titles for the first time since opening May 9, with a total box office just shy of $400,000. The drama took in $60,192 for the week starting June 6.

Equinoxe Films’ drama Maman est chez le coiffeur remained in the number two spot with a total take of $583,732, followed by Maximum Films’ Fugitive Pieces with just over $300,000.

The week of June 6 was good to Alliance, which boasted six films in the overall chart of the top 20 films, including Sex and the City: The Movie, thriller The Strangers, comedy Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Russian epic Mongol.

Directed by Sergei Bodrov, Mongol has made $37,200 to date on one screen in Toronto since opening June 6. The historical drama, about slave-turned-conqueror Genghis Khan, expands to Vancouver and Montreal on Friday, with two additional screens planned for Toronto, according to Alliance. It will open in Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Victoria on June 27, followed by Ottawa on July 4.