At the start of the spring break, Quebec cinema had a very lucrative weekend across the halls of the beautiful (and cold) province.
Broadcast on 83 screens in Quebec, the animated film Katak, the brave beluga, by directors Christine Dallaire-Dupont and Nicola Lemay, raised $182,829, according to box office data compiled by Cinéac. Which puts it just ahead The plunger on the charts. Francis Leclerc’s film, adapted from the first novel by author Stéphane Larue, had an excellent release on 56 screens in Quebec with, still according to Cinéac, a harvest of $181,698 for its first weekend in the province.
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Broadcast on 83 screens in Quebec, the animated film Katak, the brave belugaby directors Christine Dallaire-Dupont and Nicola Lemay, raised $182,829, according to box office data compiled by Cinéac.
These two Quebec feature films do better thanAsterix and Obelix : the middle Empire ($80,743 for its fifth weekend in theaters). For its part, the film in the Conte pour tous series, with Benoit Brière, coconut firm, comes in ninth place, with $61,068.
entertainment movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaRest, from Marvel Studios, dominates the charts in Quebec for a second week, with $447,380 and a total of $1,922,906. Subsequently followed byAvatar which now totals nearly $20 million, after 11 weeks in theaters. American black comedy Cocaine Bear is No. 3 in the Top 10, with receipts of $184,455.
The plunger, starring the young actor Henri Picard, also garnered very good reviews in the media. Colleague Marc-André Lussier gave it a score of 8/10. He wrote that the work is marked “by a very feverish staging, but never flashy. The plunger is not only a true, but an excellent cinema film. »