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.
Casino Royale — CDN $23,904,071 — N.AM $159,837,718 — 15.0%
Blood Diamond — CDN $6,161,330 — N.AM $43,894,082 — 14.0%
Children of Men — CDN $1,490,773 — N.AM $11,902,000 — 12.5%
Rocky Balboa — CDN $5,588,149 — N.AM $60,892,000 — 9.2%
Eragon — CDN $5,513,692 — N.AM $67,043,851 — 8.2%
The Pursuit of Happyness — CDN $9,767,917 — N.AM $124,159,000 — 7.9%
The Good Shepherd — CDN $3,779,069 — N.AM $48,434,000 — 7.8%
Happy Feet — CDN $13,566,037 — N.AM $185,414,182 — 7.3%
Charlotte’s Web — CDN $4,913,268 — N.AM $66,975,000 — 7.3%
Night at the Museum — CDN $10,890,754 — N.AM $164,097,000 — 6.6%
A couple of discrepancies: Casino Royale, Blood Diamond, Happy Feet and Eragon were #4, #5, #7 and #9 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #16, #15, #14 and #12 in North America as a whole), while Freedom Writers, Dreamgirls, Happily N’Ever After and We Are Marshall were #4, #5, #6 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively.
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