If someone asked you what the highest grossing film per screen at the Canadian box office was last weekend, what would you say? Transformers: Dark of the Moon? Horrible Bosses? Those are good guesses (and when it comes to overall box office, yes they were the tops), but when you break the number down by how much one screen made you’d be surprised to learn that Werner Herzog’s 3-D documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which is only playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, in fact made more money per screen than any other film across the country.
Between July 8 and 11 Cave of Forgotten Dreams made $25,000 CDN on that one screen. Not only is it the highest grossing film per screen for the weekend, but it also set the record as highest grossing opening weekend for a film at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. It’s also the best Canadian opening per screen for a Werner Herzog film.
The film, which documents the prehistoric cave paintings inside France’s Chauvet Cave, opens in Montreal and expands in Toronto to the Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Grande on July 15. It opens in Vancouver on July 29.
Top image: A scene from Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Courtesy Kinosmith.
