Canadian Box Office - Weekend of June 8, 2007

1 Ocean's Thirteen Warner Bros. $2.84 mil $2.84 mil
2 Pirates of the Caribbean... Walt Disney $2.34 mil $20.17 mil
3 Knocked Up Universal $1.76 mil $5.39 mil
4 Shrek the Third DreamWorks $1.37 mil $24.21 mil
5 Surf's Up Columbia $973,180 $973,180
6 Eli Roth's Hostel Part II Maple $398,614 $398,614
7 Spider-Man 3 Columbia $322,147 $30.22 mil
8 Mr. Brooks Odeon $289,442 $1.19 mil
9 Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience Columbia $67,705 $2.37 mil
10 Away From Her Mongrel Media $60,103 $827,281

Away From Her holds on to the ten spot, and has made $4,962,327 worldwide since its release on May 4.

The only other Canadian film in the charts, Knocked Up, was made by Americans. I had a chance to view it over the weekend, and I have to say, I recant my earlier boycott. This was truly one of the better Canadian comedies I have seen. I believe I noticed about 12 references to Canada in the film - Canadian, Canada, Vancouver, and British Columbia spoke aloud, a red Canada flag tattoo, a sign that crassly read: "Canadian beaver - Pamela Anderson, Elisha Cuthbert" etc., insurance (as in Canadian), a British Columbia license plate which I adored seeing, and a hundred references to pot, there may have been more.

Really, I think we should give up making Canadian comedies all together as the Americans clearly do it better than us. They have all our actors, and they are not restricted to CAVCO points. When Hollywood makes a Canadian film with a 33 million dollar budget and a good script, why even try anymore?