Whoops! I forgot to do this yesterday. The wife’s been in the hospital here this past week and I’ve been a wee bit distracted.
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.
North Country — CDN $2,021,760 — N.AM $15,646,363 — 12.9%
The Legend of Zorro — CDN $3,131,367 — N.AM $30,311,466 — 10.3%
Prime — CDN $1,345,675 — N.AM $13,336,830 — 10.1%
Flightplan — CDN $8,206,048 — N.AM $84,413,231 — 9.7%
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — CDN $5,067,195 — N.AM $52,824,214 — 9.6%
The Weather Man — CDN $771,891 — N.AM $8,639,482 — 8.9%
Saw II — CDN $4,737,807 — N.AM $60,121,241 — 7.9%
Jarhead — CDN $2,040,655 — N.AM $27,726,210 — 7.4%
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story — CDN $1,715,147 — N.AM $23,821,719 — 7.2%
Chicken Little — CDN $2,369,277 — N.AM $40,049,778 — 5.9%
A couple of discrepancies: North Country and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit were #7 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #11 and #12 in North America as a whole), while Good Night and Good Luck and Shopgirl were #7 and #9 on the North American chart, respectively.
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