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.
Nitro — CDN $1,440,000 — N.AM $1,440,000 — 100%
Sicko — CDN $1,150,000 — N.AM $11,452,560 — 10.0%
Knocked Up — CDN $12,130,000 — N.AM $132,089,425 — 9.2%
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End — CDN $25,880,000 — N.AM $301,725,691 — 8.6%
Live Free or Die Hard — CDN $6,660,000 — N.AM $84,424,123 — 7.9%
Transformers — CDN $11,520,000 — N.AM $155,405,412 — 7.4%
1408 — CDN $3,870,000 — N.AM $53,738,325 — 7.2%
Ratatouille — CDN $6,270,000 — N.AM $109,531,598 — 5.7%
Evan Almighty — CDN $4,460,000 — N.AM $78,706,785 — 5.7%
License to Wed — CDN $686,125 — N.AM $17,838,076 — 3.8%
A couple of discrepancies: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Nitro were #8 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (the former film was #11 in North America as a whole, and the latter film it isn’t on the North American chart at all), while Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Ocean’s Thirteen were #8 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively.
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