The Boondock Saints are getting another shot at the big screen, 10 years after the original became a straight-to-video cult hit.

The Toronto-shot sequel Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day rolls out on seven screens in Toronto on Friday, followed by Vancouver, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton in the coming weeks through Maple Pictures.

Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder, Suicide Kings) and Norman Reedus (Deuces Wild) again star in writer/director Troy Duffy’s actioner about two Irish brothers who fight Boston mobsters. Don Carmody produced in Toronto, working with Stage 6 Films.

The film opened in the U.S. on Oct. 30 to the tune of US$1.2 million on 105 screens through indie distributor Apparition. Maple’s director of theatrical distribution Sarah Necoloff says the company is ‘very encouraged’ about its prospects in Canada, based on positive feedback from exhibitors.

Boondock Saints will compete against the global disaster pic 2012 from Columbia Pictures, which opens on some 3,000 screens in North America. It stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt.

Also in theaters on Friday:

• The comedy Pirate Radio, from director Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary) gets a wide release in Canada via Alliance Films and in the U.S. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rhys Ifans star as rogue DJs in 1960s Britain.

• Lars von Trier’s controversial Antichrist, which bowed at this year’s TIFF, opens in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal through E1 Entertainment. The distributor also has the comedy I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, playing in above-mentioned markets plus Calgary.

• John N. Smith’s Newfoundland-shot romantic drama Love and Savagery, which bowed at the Atlantic Film Festival, opens on one screen each in Toronto, Halifax and St. John’s through Mongrel Media.

• Documentary The Horse Boy, about a family that pursues unconventional ways to heal its autistic son, opens exclusively at Toronto’s Canada Square from Films We Like.

• KinoSmith has the race relations doc Prom Night in Mississippi, playing in Toronto, followed by Vancouver next week.