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.
Met Opera: La Sonnambula — CDN $404,723 — N.AM $404,723 — 100%
Slumdog Millionaire — CDN $15,950,000 — N.AM $137,178,177 — 11.6%
Watchmen — CDN $10,080,000 — N.AM $98,140,886 — 10.3%
I Love You, Man — CDN $1,710,000 — N.AM $17,810,270 — 9.6%
Race to Witch Mountain — CDN $4,260,000 — N.AM $44,496,593 — 9.6%
Duplicity — CDN $1,300,000 — N.AM $13,965,110 — 9.3%
Coraline — CDN $6,080,000 — N.AM $72,841,173 — 8.3%
Knowing — CDN $2,030,000 — N.AM $24,604,751 — 8.3%
The Last House on the Left — CDN $1,950,000 — N.AM $23,902,420 — 8.2%
Taken — CDN $10,410,000 — N.AM $133,096,403 — 7.8%
A couple of discrepancies: Met Opera: La Sonnambula was #9 on the Canadian chart (it wasn’t on the North American chart at all, though if it were, it would be #19; and if we bracket it off because it wasn’t really a film, then the #10 movie in Canada was Dédé, à travers les brumes, which also wasn’t on the North American chart at all but would have been #28 if it was), while Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail was #9 on the North American chart (it was nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).
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