Following the monster release of Spider-Man 3, and coming before Paramount’s Shrek the Third, the relatively calm week of May 11-17 will see Maple Pictures roll out the Lionsgate comedy Delta Farce on 31 screens in markets including Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto, up against the horror sequel 28 Weeks Later, which opens wide through Twentieth Century Fox and its genre spin-off Fox Atomic.

Alliance Atlantis will open The Ex, a comedy from The Weinstein Company and MGM, on 102 screens.

Capri Releasing and Mongrel Media, meanwhile, are upping Away from Her to 22 screens, from nine, following a strong opening weekend on May 4, in which the Sarah Polley project scored an admirable per screen of $7,000. This week, it expands to markets including Victoria, Edmonton, Montreal, Halifax and St. John’s.

Also expanding, albeit cautiously, is the comedy Everything’s Gone Green from Equinoxe Films, which will add one AMC screen in Montreal on Friday, following a mild run in B.C. and Toronto. The film moves on to Ottawa, again on one screen, May 18.

Other U.S. releases for the frame include the Jane Fonda dramedy Georgia Rule, from Universal, and the indie film Waitress, starring Keri Russell, which bows on one screen each in Toronto and Vancouver through Fox Searchlight Pictures.