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.
Confessions of a Shopaholic — CDN $4,210,000 — N.AM $33,662,000 — 12.5%
The International — CDN $2,580,000 — N.AM $21,300,000 — 12.1%
Slumdog Millionaire — CDN $12,230,000 — N.AM $115,148,000 — 10.6%
He’s Just Not That into You — CDN $8,330,000 — N.AM $78,525,000 — 10.6%
Fired Up — CDN $1,060,000 — N.AM $10,137,000 — 10.5%
Paul Blart: Mall Cop — CDN $11,610,000 — N.AM $128,106,000 — 9.1%
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li — CDN $370,532 — N.AM $4,650,000 — 7.9%
Taken — CDN $8,050,000 — N.AM $107,882,000 — 7.5%
Coraline — CDN $4,140,000 — N.AM $61,145,000 — 6.8%
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience — CDN $711,235 — N.AM $12,700,000 — 5.6%
A couple of discrepancies: The International was #9 on the Canadian chart (it was #14 in North America as a whole), while Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail was #1 on the North American chart (it was nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).
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