Surfing played better than sleuthing last week, which saw Canadian audiences fork over $4.5 million for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, putting the Fox sequel at number one, while Nancy Drew debuted at a distant seventh for Warner Bros.

Drew, reworked from the perennially popular novels, made a modest debut on 177 screens, grossing $547,000 — putting it far behind the weekly takes of older and similarly aimed titles such as the animated Shrek the Third and Surf’s Up. According to reports, Warner Bros. is hoping that more teen girls will turn out for the picture as schools let out for the summer.

Meanwhile, Universal hung on to the number two spot with its hit comedy Knocked Up, which expanded to just under 300 screens in its third week, averaging a healthy $10,500 from each.

The chart for the week of June 15-21 shows respectable cumulative returns for other, recent releases — $7 million for Ocean’s Thirteen, $8.5 million for Knocked Up — though the numbers have come down from the sky-high eight-figure debuts made in May by the ‘threequels’ of Spider-Man, Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Among Canadian-made releases, Filmoption International came out of nowhere with Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture to take second place on the chart, behind the immovable object that is Away from Her. The hour-long doc about architecture advocate and local figure Phyllis Bronfman Lambert rang in $5,600 from one screen at the Ex-Centris rep theater in Montreal.