Despite stiff competition from Watchmen and Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain, the road-trip movie One Week is inching closer to the $1-million mark for Mongrel Media, thanks to solid box-office receipts for its second week in theaters.

One Week added $364,199 in its second week on 64 screens — slightly below the first week’s tally — and currently ranks second on the list of Canadian-mades for the week of March 13. The film, directed by Michael McGowan, has grossed over $900,000 since opening March 6, and is currently on 57 screens.

‘We had a really strong second week, so that helped us tremendously, and at this rate, I think we should be at [the] $1-million mark by end of this week,’ Mongrel president Hussain Amarshi tells Playback Daily. The distributor put up $1 million in print and advertising expenditures for the film’s release.

Meanwhile, TVA Films climbed to the top spot at the domestic box office with the rocker biopic Dédé, à travers les brumes, which generated $578,995 in its first week on 72 Quebec screens. The film, written and directed by Jean-Philippe Duval, follows the troubled life of André ‘Dédé’ Fortin — a vocal nationalist and front man for the iconic Montreal rock group Les Colocs.

Rounding out the top five is Atopia’s drama Je me souviens, with $180,000 after two weeks, followed by Alliance Vivafilm’s Polytechnique, with $1.5 million to date, and Alliance Films’ caper comedy Stone of Destiny, with $302,000 after four weeks in theaters.