{"id":600,"date":"2008-10-14T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/canadian-box-office-stats-october-12\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T14:42:00","slug":"canadian-box-office-stats-october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/10\/canadian-box-office-stats-october-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Canadian box-office stats &#8212; October 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">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<p><span><i>Nick &amp; Norah\u2019s Infinite Playlist<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,450,000 \u2014 N.AM $20,730,708 \u2014 11.8%<br><i>Burn after Reading<\/i> \u2014 CDN $6,230,000 \u2014 N.AM $55,177,399 \u2014 11.3%<br><i>Religulous<\/i> \u2014 CDN $758,856 \u2014 N.AM $6,732,631 \u2014 11.3%<\/span><br><span><i>Body of Lies<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,180,000 \u2014 N.AM $12,884,416 \u2014 9.2%<br><i>Eagle Eye<\/i> \u2014 CDN $6,250,000 \u2014 N.AM $70,409,979 \u2014 8.9%<\/span><br><span><i>Nights in Rodanthe<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,510,000 \u2014 N.AM $32,297,101 \u2014 7.8%<br><i>Lakeview Terrace<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,690,000 \u2014 N.AM $36,201,729 \u2014 7.4%<br><i>City of Ember<\/i> \u2014 CDN $222,193 \u2014 N.AM $3,129,473 \u2014 7.1%<br><i>Quarantine<\/i> \u2014 CDN $978,464 \u2014 N.AM $14,211,321 \u2014 6.9%<br><i>Beverly Hills Chihuahua<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,490,000 \u2014 N.AM $52,532,310 \u2014 4.7%<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">A couple of discrepancies: <i>Burn after Reading<\/i>, <i>City of Ember<\/i>, <i>Religulous<\/i> and <i>Lakeview Terrace<\/i> were #7, #8, #9 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #14, #11, #13 and #12 in North America as a whole), while <i>The Express<\/i>, <i>Appaloosa<\/i>, <i>The Duchess<\/i> and <i>Fireproof<\/i> were #6, #8, #9 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively (the first three films were #13, #12 and #11 in Canada, and the latter film has not been released in Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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