Fifty Dead Men Walking is off to a promising start for TVA films, averaging some $7,200 from each of its 15 screens.

The Canada/U.K. copro by Brightlight Pictures and Future Films made its bow in markets including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver on July 31 — a frame it shared with the arrival of Judd Apatow’s Funny People though Universal and the continued dominance of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, via Warner Bros.

Harry Potter was number one in Canada for the fourth week in a row, taking another $3.2 million. The top Canadian-made title was, for the fifth week in a row, De père en flic. The French-language cop comedy has so far grossed $7.9 million for Alliance and shows little sign of slowing down.

That same week also saw the debut of Alliance’s Les doigts croches, number two on the domestic chart with a weekly take of some $690,300. Fifty Dead Men Walking came in third, buoyed by mostly positive reviews here and in the U.K.

The IRA drama directed by Kari Skogland is expected to roll into other domestic markets through August, and to debut on U.S. screens on Aug. 21 through Phase 4 Films.