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 $93,100,000 — N.AM $743,688,973 — 12.5%
The Bounty Hunter — CDN $6,410,000 — N.AM $55,916,622 — 11.5%
Hot Tub Time Machine — CDN $3,990,000 — N.AM $36,969,649 — 10.8%
Shutter Island — CDN $13,440,000 — N.AM $125,001,481 — 10.8%
Alice in Wonderland — CDN $34,220,000 — N.AM $319,009,518 — 10.7%
The Last Song — CDN $4,200,000 — N.AM $42,255,196 — 9.9%
Clash of the Titans — CDN $10,260,000 — N.AM $110,226,524 — 9.3%
How to Train Your Dragon — CDN $11,480,000 — N.AM $133,404,438 — 8.6%
Date Night — CDN $2,000,000 — N.AM $25,207,599 — 7.9%
Diary of a Wimpy Kid — CDN $3,940,000 — N.AM $53,636,368 — 7.3%
A couple of discrepancies: Avatar and Shutter Island were #9 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #12 and #11 in North America as a whole), while Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? and Letters to God were #4 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively (the former film was #15 in Canada, while the latter film was nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).
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