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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

My Best Friend\u2019s Girl<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,580,000 \u2014 N.AM $14,529,000 \u2014 10.9%
Burn after Reading<\/i> \u2014 CDN $4,940,000 \u2014 N.AM $45,540,000 \u2014 10.8%<\/span>
Ghost Town<\/i> \u2014 CDN $980,717 \u2014 N.AM $9,239,000 \u2014 10.6%
The Dark Knight<\/i> \u2014 CDN $49,770,000 \u2014 N.AM $524,465,000 \u2014 9.5%
The Women<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,220,000 \u2014 N.AM $24,079,000 \u2014 9.2%
Righteous Kill<\/i> \u2014 CDN $3,140,000 \u2014 N.AM $34,805,000 \u2014 9.0%<\/span>
Igor<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,110,000 \u2014 N.AM $14,339,000 \u2014 7.7%
Eagle Eye<\/i> \u2014 CDN $2,200,000 \u2014 N.AM $29,200,000 \u2014 7.5%
Lakeview Terrace<\/i> \u2014 CDN $1,840,000 \u2014 N.AM $25,700,000 \u2014 7.2%
Nights in Rodanthe<\/i> \u2014 CDN $891,979 \u2014 N.AM $13,570,000 \u2014 6.6%<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of discrepancies: Ghost Town<\/i>, The Women<\/i> and The Dark Knight<\/i> were #8, #9 and #10 on the Canadian chart, respectively (they were #11, #12 and #13 in North America as a whole), while Fireproof<\/i>, Miracle at St. Anna<\/i> and Tyler Perry\u2019s The Family That Preys<\/i> were #4, #9 and #10 on the North American chart, respectively (the middle film was #11 in Canada, and the other two films were nowhere in the Canadian Top 20).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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