Cruising Bar tops $3 million

The four charmers from Cruising Bar 2 continue to seduce Quebeckers as the Alliance Vivafilm comedy now boasts a box-office grab of $3.1 million after five weeks in theaters.

The Michel Côté-starrer about a group of men looking for love while roaming Montreal’s nightclubs added another $252,000 for the week of July 25, with a per-screen average of just under $4,000. Côté (C.R.A.Z.Y.) plays all four characters.

The 1989 version grossed $3.8 million at the box office and sold to 22 countries. Cruising Bar 2 is co-directed by Côté and Robert Ménard, who helmed the original.

Meanwhile, Guy Maddin’s homage to his hometown, My Winnipeg, hung on to the number two spot in its sixth week, earning another $12,619, bringing its total receipts to $127,821.

Among new arrivals, the dark comedy Just Buried, from Halifax’s Chaz Thorne, placed ahead of horror comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer in their first week in theaters. Just Buried landed on the chart in third place with $12,442 on nine screens for distributor Seville Pictures, while KinoSmith Films’ Jack Brooks made just over $8,000 on four screens. It came in at number five, behind the large-format doc Dinosaures 3D: Les géants de la Patagonie, with a box-office total of $912,964 after 56 weeks.