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.
The Queen — CDN $2,682,532 — N.AM $13,784,000 — 19.5%
Babel — CDN $976,380 — N.AM $7,488,000 — 13.0%
The Prestige — CDN $5,280,334 — N.AM $46,037,000 — 11.5%
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — CDN $7,752,912 — N.AM $67,840,000 — 11.4%
The Departed — CDN $10,947,184 — N.AM $109,778,000 — 10.0%
Stranger Than Fiction — CDN $1,305,172 — N.AM $14,100,000 — 9.3%
Saw III — CDN $6,124,515 — N.AM $69,879,000 — 8.8%
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause — CDN $2,960,310 — N.AM $41,052,000 — 7.2%
Flushed Away — CDN $2,672,431 — N.AM $39,931,000 — 6.7%
A couple of discrepancies: Tribute.ca’s list this week only has the Canadian top nine, not the full top ten. The Queen was #9 on the Canadian chart (it was #12 in North America as a whole), while The Return and A Good Year were #8 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively.
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In