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.
Law Abiding Citizen — CDN $9,100,000 — N.AM $70,018,193 — 13.0%
The Men Who Stare at Goats — CDN $2,980,000 — N.AM $27,680,089 — 10.8%
Pirate Radio — CDN $542,214 — N.AM $5,184,068 — 10.5%
Disney’s A Christmas Carol — CDN $7,960,000 — N.AM $79,836,002 — 10.0%
Couples Retreat — CDN $10,460,000 — N.AM $104,992,030 — 10.0%
Planet 51 — CDN $1,220,000 — N.AM $12,286,129 — 9.9%
2012 — CDN $10,340,000 — N.AM $108,131,263 — 9.6%
The Twilight Saga: New Moon — CDN $10,000,000 — N.AM $142,839,137 — 7.0%
Paranormal Activity — CDN $6,330,000 — N.AM $106,082,922 — 6.0%
The Blind Side — CDN $1,480,000 — N.AM $34,119,372 — 4.3%
A couple of discrepancies: Law Abiding Citizen, Paranormal Activity and Pirate Radio were #6, #8 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #11, #13 and #12 in North America as a whole), while Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Fourth Kind and Michael Jackson’s This Is It were #6, #9 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively (they were #12, #14 and #11 in Canada).
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