MONTREAL – It certainly doesn’t reflect well on our own home-grown film industry, or the habits of Canadian moviegoers (especially in English Canada), that it’s taken almost a quarter-century to knock Porky’s off its perch.
After having ousted Seraphin from first place in Quebec by becoming the biggest commercial movie success in that province, Canadian film Bon Cop Bad Cop broke another record by becoming the most successful Canadian-produced theatrical release of all time, it was announced today.
The bilingual cop-caper comedy claimed the title by knocking Porky’s (a seminal "Canadian" flick where teens from 1950s Florida try their hardest to lose their virginity) out of the position that it has held since 1982.
With $9,013,345 of receipts in French and $2,342,142 with its English version, Bon Cop Bad Cop currently has a cumulative box office record of $11,355,487 officially breaking Porky’s previous (unofficial) box office record of $11.2 million.
"I find all of this very exciting," said director Erik Canuel. "We made this film without any pretensions, but with the hope that people would find it funny. We succeeded in attracting a much larger audience than we could have ever imagined."
"I suppose this somehow means that we have become the new pigs on the block. I am very happy about this," said producer Kevin Tierney.
Bon Cop Bad Cop is currently playing in theatres across Canada.
Let’s hope it doesn’t take another 24 years to break this record again.
