Updated: Canadian Box Office - Not that "explosive"

Nitro fell to bottom of the top ten in Canada and is the only Canadian film (French Canadian to boot) to break the top ten. In other news, Michael Bay used his cinematic powers for pure evil and coughed out Transformers the no.1 film in North America, Seth Rogen is still playing a Canadian in Knocked Up, Michael Moore just wished he was a Canadian, and Fido is still twitching.

1 Transformers $5.75 mil $11.52 mil
2 Ratatouille $1.82 mil $6.27 mil
3 Live Free or Die Hard $1.37 mil $6.66 mil
4 License to Wed $686,125 $686,125
5 Knocked Up $481,854 $12.13 mil
6 Evan Almighty $478,970 $4.46 mil
7 1408 $416,889 $3.87 mil
8 Pirates of Caribbean: $399,880 $25.88 mil
9 Sicko $331,805 $1.15 mil
10 Nitro $307,633 $1.44 mil

These are estimates, actual figures will be out this evening:

FIDO: $10,100 on 4 screens, $2,525 per screen average, for a whopping $298,000 gross over it's entire run.

Away from Her: $21,700 dropped-43.3% from the weekend before, is on 38 screens, -14 less screens, and had a theatre average of $571 for a US box office total of $4,499,000 and a worldwide total of $5,838,790 over 66 days on an estimated $4,000,000 budget. This may be the first film that Telefilm has ever financed that made back its money - I don't think that's much of an exaggeration either (if there is another one, let us know).

Updated:

Away From Her: # 45, (down from #37) $23,576, $620 average, and $4,501,383 US domestic.

Manufactured Landscapes #52, $12,412, +16.0% from previous weekend, 3 theatres (+1) $4,137 average per theatre, for a total of $72,153 US in 3 weeks of release.

Fido: #56, $10,343, 4 theaters, $2,585 average (not too shaby) for a total of $298,110

[via Tribute and Box Office Mojo]

For a historical comparisson of Canadian box office grosses, take a look at The Numbers.

Just a note on "The Numbers" - that site has many films that were distributed by Canadian companies such as LG or AA that are not TECHNICALLY Canadian films - that is they may partly have been financed here, or distributed or shot here, but are NOT by Canadian directors.

Example - Heist was shot in Montréal, that does not make it Canadian.

Owning Mahowney is a Canadian UK co-production, shot here, but with US actors and a UK director - where as David Cronenberg is a Canadian director who often makes UK/France/Canada co-productions (Spider, eXistenZ, Eastern Promises etc.) but, his films are classified as Canadian (as he is Canadian).