ELECTION HITS HK$15 MILLION

Johnnie To's ELECTION may not have done well at the Golden Horse Awards last weekend, but it did just squeak past the HK$15 million mark (if my math is right) making it an official Hong Kong hit. Hooray for Johnnie! The US still hasn't picked ELECTION up for distribution, but everyone else in the world has snapped it up (21 countries and counting according to the sales company).

DRAGON SQUAD, the new Sammo Hung film, opened at number 1, but it was a weak opening with a low per screen average; Japan's NANA is still going strong and sitting pretty at number 2. CORPSE BRIDE and INNOCENT STEPS were at 3 and 4, respectively; and ELECTION is down at number 5. But it's performance is almost unheard of for a dark, violent, Category III movie with no major stars.