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Bon Cop Bad Cop knocks off 24-year-old record

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...