MUMBAI: Director Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds opened as a top-grosser in theatres in the US and Canada last weekend, grossing a whopping $37.6 million.Built on $70 million, this is Weinstein Co’s first film to open at No. 1 this year. Starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger, the movie follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers who are out to kill Nazis in occupied France.

The independent studio, run by brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, ranks 10th at the box office this year with sales of $33.9 million as of 20 August.