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With an estimated box office of 1.04 million pounds ($1.57
million) in Britain and Ireland, "Brooklyn" was also the top
opener in both countries for the past weekend, Lionsgate said.
"Brooklyn", in which Ronan's performance as a young Irish woman
who emigrates to the New York borough to escape the poverty of
1950s Ireland is being touted as a potential Oscar winner, took
in more than 432,000 pounds in Ireland from its opening on Nov 4
through the weekend, Lionsgate said.
That surpasses other popular recent Irish films including "The
Guard", which took in 408,711 pounds, and "Angela's Ashes" at
397,978 pounds. It is exceeded only by the 1996 film about the
Irish republican leader Collins, which took in almost 443,000
pounds.
Lionsgate said "Brooklyn" opened on 87 screens in Ireland,
making it the largest screen count ever for an Irish film in the
republic.
(Reporting by Michael Roddy; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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