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.
My Best Friend’s Girl — CDN $1,580,000 — N.AM $14,529,000 — 10.9%
Burn after Reading — CDN $4,940,000 — N.AM $45,540,000 — 10.8%
Ghost Town — CDN $980,717 — N.AM $9,239,000 — 10.6%
The Dark Knight — CDN $49,770,000 — N.AM $524,465,000 — 9.5%
The Women — CDN $2,220,000 — N.AM $24,079,000 — 9.2%
Righteous Kill — CDN $3,140,000 — N.AM $34,805,000 — 9.0%
Igor — CDN $1,110,000 — N.AM $14,339,000 — 7.7%
Eagle Eye — CDN $2,200,000 — N.AM $29,200,000 — 7.5%
Lakeview Terrace — CDN $1,840,000 — N.AM $25,700,000 — 7.2%
Nights in Rodanthe — CDN $891,979 — N.AM $13,570,000 — 6.6%
A couple of discrepancies: Ghost Town, The Women and The Dark Knight were #8, #9 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #11, #12 and #13 in North America as a whole), while Fireproof, Miracle at St. Anna and Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys were #4, #9 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively (the middle film was #11 in Canada, and the other two films were nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).
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