Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest.
P.S. I Love You — CDN $5,230,000 — N.AM $46,830,324 — 11.2%
Atonement — CDN $2,420,000 — N.AM $25,130,656 — 9.6%
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — CDN $4,110,000 — N.AM $44,053,400 — 9.3%
Charlie Wilson’s War — CDN $4,760,000 — N.AM $59,353,790 — 8.0%
I Am Legend — CDN $18,740,000 — N.AM $240,283,451 — 7.8%
The Bucket List — CDN $1,610,000 — N.AM $20,816,129 — 7.7%
Juno — CDN $5,320,000 — N.AM $70,862,478 — 7.5%
One Missed Call — CDN $1,340,000 — N.AM $20,493,337 — 6.5%
National Treasure: Book of Secrets — CDN $12,160,000 — N.AM $187,114,947 — 6.5%
Alvin and the Chipmunks — CDN $10,150,000 — N.AM $187,943,374 — 5.4%
A couple of discrepancies: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Charlie Wilson’s War were #8 and #9 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #12 and #11 in North America as a whole), while First Sunday and The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything were #2 and #9 on the North American chart, respectively.
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