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.
Law Abiding Citizen — CDN $8,580,000 — N.AM $67,326,000 — 12.7%
The Men Who Stare at Goats — CDN $2,440,000 — N.AM $23,376,000 — 10.4%
Couples Retreat — CDN $10,150,000 — N.AM $102,133,000 — 9.9%
Pirate Radio — CDN $274,049 — N.AM $2,869,000 — 9.6%
Disney’s A Christmas Carol — CDN $5,950,000 — N.AM $63,289,000 — 9.4%
Michael Jackson’s This Is It — CDN $6,370,000 — N.AM $68,211,000 — 9.3%
2012 — CDN $5,460,000 — N.AM $65,000,000 — 8.4%
The Box — CDN $944,184 — N.AM $13,206,000 — 7.1%
The Fourth Kind — CDN $1,180,000 — N.AM $20,588,000 — 5.7%
Paranormal Activity — CDN $5,940,000 — N.AM $103,847,000 — 5.7%
A couple of discrepancies: Pirate Radio was #9 on the Canadian chart (it was #11 in North America as a whole), while Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire was #4 on the North American chart (it was nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).
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