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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

17 Again<\/i> \u2014 CDN $7,390,000 \u2014 N.AM $53,994,515 \u2014 13.7%<\/span>
Hannah Montana: The Movie<\/i> \u2014 CDN $7,680,000 \u2014 N.AM $73,861,795 \u2014 10.4%
Earth<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,690,000 \u2014 N.AM $26,264,242 \u2014 10.2%
State of Play<\/i> \u2014 CDN $3,300,000 \u2014 N.AM $33,986,760 \u2014 9.7%
Monsters Vs. Aliens<\/i> \u2014 CDN $17,190,000 \u2014 N.AM $186,774,092 \u2014 9.2%<\/span>
X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/i> \u2014 CDN $9,310,000 \u2014 N.AM $129,032,435 \u2014 7.2%
Star Trek<\/i> \u2014 CDN $5,440,000 \u2014 N.AM $79,204,289 \u2014 6.9%
Obsessed<\/i> \u2014 CDN $3,390,000 \u2014 N.AM $56,207,576 \u2014 6.0%
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,800,000 \u2014 N.AM $30,054,386 \u2014 6.0%
The Soloist<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,380,000 \u2014 N.AM $23,845,177 \u2014 5.8%<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of discrepancies: State of Play<\/a><\/i> was #10 on the Canadian chart (it was #12 in North America as a whole), while Next Day Air<\/a><\/i> was #6 on the North American chart (it wasn\u2019t even released in Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"