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.
Blood Diamond — CDN $7,780,615 — N.AM $50,743,000 — 15.3%
Children of Men — CDN $3,728,853 — N.AM $27,481,000 — 13.6%
Alpha Dog — CDN $1,526,813 — N.AM $11,697,000 — 13.1%
Arthur and the Invisibles — CDN $1,026,637 — N.AM $9,296,000 — 11.0%
The Pursuit of Happyness — CDN $11,967,242 — N.AM $146,511,000 — 8.2%
Pan’s Labyrinth — CDN $727,551 — N.AM $10,155,000 — 7.2%
The Hitcher — CDN $555,651 — N.AM $8,234,000 — 6.7%
Night at the Museum — CDN $13,847,670 — N.AM $205,840,000 — 6.7%
Stomp the Yard — CDN $1,382,737 — N.AM $41,564,000 — 3.3%
Dreamgirls — CDN $2,580,049 — N.AM $78,118,000 — 3.3%
A couple of discrepancies: Blood Diamond and Alpha Dog were #7 and #8 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #15 and #11 in North America as a whole), while Freedom Writers and The Queen were #6 and #8 on the North American chart, respectively.
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