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.
Avatar — CDN $51,940,000 — N.AM $493,267,000 — 10.5%
Leap Year — CDN $1,760,000 — N.AM $17,529,000 — 10.0%
Daybreakers — CDN $2,280,000 — N.AM $24,088,000 — 9.5%
Sherlock Holmes — CDN $17,010,000 — N.AM $180,073,000 — 9.4%
Up in the Air — CDN $5,910,000 — N.AM $62,831,000 — 9.4%
It’s Complicated — CDN $7,120,000 — N.AM $88,224,000 — 8.1%
The Spy Next Door — CDN $666,332 — N.AM $9,600,000 — 6.9%
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — CDN $13,360,000 — N.AM $192,742,000 — 6.9%
The Lovely Bones — CDN $1,140,000 — N.AM $17,487,000 — 6.5%
The Book of Eli — CDN $1,890,000 — N.AM $32,770,000 — 5.8%
A couple of discrepancies: Daybreakers was #9 on the Canadian chart (it was #11 in North America as a whole), while The Blind Side was #9 on the North American chart (it was #12 in Canada).
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