Of course it's part of the domestic box office, but still... the taste of the Canadians appears much more European meaning that movies like James Bond or Lord of the Rings are doing proportionally much better than in the U.S.A....

And since the Canadian final weekend numbers appear much earlier than the (total) domestic weekend numbers I would like to start this new thread to discuss what's going on in the North...

Top 20 Movies in Canada - Weekend of June 20, 2008
1 - Get Smart Warner Bros. $2.42M $2.42M 1
2 2 Kung Fu Panda Paramount $1.92M $10.61M 3
3 1 The Incredible Hulk Universal $1.64M $6.44M 2
4 - The Love Guru Paramount $1.40M $1.40M 1
5 4 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Paramount $909,312 $24.43M 5
6 3 The Happening 20th Century Fox $802,774 $3.54M 2
7 6 Sex and the City Alliance $714,272 $13.89M 4
8 5 You Don't Mess With the Zohan Columbia $695,244 $7.21M 3
9 7 Iron Man Paramount $315,151 $25.28M 8
10 8 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Walt Disney $165,966 $11.57M 6
11 9 The Strangers Alliance $121,637 $3.20M 4
12 11 Young People Fucking Seville $80,704 $284,516 2
13 10 What Happens in Vegas 20th Century Fox $63,360 $7.51M 7
14 - Mongol Alliance $44,505 $87,518 3
15 12 Forgetting Sarah Marshall Universal $40,339 $6.15M 10
16 16 U2 3D National Geographic $22,732 $981,024 21
17 - Speed Racer Warner Bros. $19,614 $2.11M 7
18 14 Made of Honor Columbia $17,453 $4.43M 8
19 18 The Visitor Alliance $14,601 $459,369 9
20 19 When Did You Last See Your Father? Mongrel Media $14,369 $37,084 2

http://www.tribute.ca/movies/boxoffice.asp

1) 7.49m IRON MAN
2) 7.00m INDY 4 (8.65m 4 days)
3) 4.88m SEX AND THE CITY
4) 4.11m NARNIA 2
5) 3.53m PANDA
6) 3.07m HULK
7) 2.97m ZOHAN
8) 2.89m HORTON
9) 2.49m 10.000 BC
10) 2.42m GET SMART
11) 2.34m HAROLD & KUMAR 2
12) 2.26m CLOVERFIELD
13) 2.17m 21
14) 2.06m JUMPER (2.55m 4 days)

*without the tail end run outside the Top 20:

1) 25.28m IRON MAN
2) 24.43m INDY 4
3) 13.89m SEX & CITY
4) 11.57m NARNIA 2
5) 11.10m HORTON
6) 10.61m PANDA
7) 9.74m 10.000 BC
8) 9.31m 21
9) 7.85m 27 DRESSES
10) 7.51m VEGAS
11) 7.35m HAROLD & KUMAR 2
12) 7.21m ZOHAN
13) 7.07m JUMPER

Pretty impressive for 27 dresses.

Romantic comedies are big in Canada huh?

But overall it is pretty similar to the US

Top 20 Movies in Canada - Weekend of June 27, 2008
1 - Wanted Universal $3.10M $3.10M 1
2 - WALL·E Walt Disney $3.09M $3.09M 1
3 1 Get Smart WARNER BROS. $1.54M $5.56M 2
4 2 Kung Fu Panda Paramount $1.09M $12.82M 4
5 3 The Incredible Hulk Universal $718,856 $8.08M 3
6 - Cruising Bar 2 Alliance $623,946 $623,946 1
7 5 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Paramount $565,450 $25.50M 6
8 4 The Love Guru Paramount $558,666 $2.70M 2
9 7 Sex and the City Alliance $377,108 $14.81M 5
10 6 The Happening 20th Century Fox $332,486 $4.36M 3
11 8 You Don't Mess With the Zohan Columbia $293,714 $7.95M 4
12 9 Iron Man Paramount $162,977 $25.64M 9
13 10 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Walt Disney $68,583 $11.76M 7
14 14 Mongol Alliance $42,756 $158,619 4
15 - Baby Mama Universal $40,938 $3.06M 10
16 13 What Happens in Vegas 20th Century Fox $36,319 $7.60M 8
17 15 Forgetting Sarah Marshall Universal $34,941 $6.21M 11
18 12 Young People F***ing Seville $28,516 $373,076 2
19 - Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Yash Raj $24,519 $24,519 1
20 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Premise Media $24,374 $24,374 1

http://www.tribute.ca/movies/boxoffice.asp

1) 7.49m IRON MAN
2) 7.00m INDY 4 (8.65m 4 days)
3) 4.88m SEX AND THE CITY
4) 4.11m NARNIA 2
5) 3.53m PANDA
6) 3.10m WANTED
7) 3.09m WALL-E
8) 3.07m HULK
9) 2.97m ZOHAN
10) 2.89m HORTON
11) 2.49m 10.000 BC
12) 2.42m GET SMART
13) 2.34m HAROLD & KUMAR 2
14) 2.26m CLOVERFIELD
15) 2.17m 21
16) 2.06m JUMPER (2.55m 4 days)

*without the tail end run outside the Top 20:

1) 25.64m IRON MAN
2) 25.50m INDY 4
3) 14.81m SEX & CITY
4) 12.82m PANDA
5) 11.76m NARNIA 2
6) 11.10m HORTON
7) 9.74m 10.000 BC
8) 9.31m 21
9) 8.08m HULK
10) 7.95m ZOHAN
11) 7.85m 27 DRESSES
12) 7.60m VEGAS
13) 7.35m HAROLD & KUMAR 2
14) 7.07m JUMPER

Great thread idea.

Wanted is a beast. Wow.

Indy's about to take the lead.

I wonder whether Will Smith, Batman, or Harry Potter have the weight to outgross it. My guess is that they do. Canada (and I'm saying this as a born Canadian) is too winter-y of a place for good ol' Western to be the biggest film of the year.

that's embarrassing for Wall-E.

omg, as if i'd wanna show my face.

More embarrassing for Canada....

maybe smarter. they just don't fall for cute things.

I wouldnt be surprised if Wall-E falls short of Kung Fu Panda in many countries.

Canadians do not like Pixar for some strange reason...

However many people watch the movies on dvd and TV.

For comparison, this is how Pixar films performed in Oz...

Finding Nemo - $37.3m (No.2 behind ROTK)
The Incredibles - $26.7m
Monsters Inc - $25.6m
Toy Story 2 - $20.1m
A Bug's Life - $20.0m
Cars - $17.6m
Ratatouille - $14.5m (Release date botched)
Toy Story - $13.7m

(Multiply by 10 to get the US equivalent)

WallE is getting a botched released too.

technically its out September 18. but Australian states have different term breaks.

When was Ratatouille released?
If Disney/Pixar are in charge of the release dates in other countries that's a damn stupid thing to do.
I know they lose a lot of audience here because their movies are delayed a good 2-3 months.

Well Nemo was released in late August in Australia. so it was a 3 month wait but it wasn't botched. i remember Warner Bros. was gonna do a similar thing last year with Harry Potter, but those fankids started a nationwide petition. Australian states don't have a conformed school/semester break system. its fucks up release dates for family films all the time.

Ratatouille was released on 6th September 2007. It was held back till then because while most of the the US summer big films come out in May/June/July - there is only one set of school holidays in each state during that period and that lasts for 2 weeks as its winter here. So some films get held back till the September school holidays because lets face it - US releases in September are pathetic.

Now the bad news for Ratatouille is that it was released too early before school holidays so started to run out of steam by the time holidays came around. Also - holidays arent uniform across the country so its quite common to see animated films open small and have huge legs as each state comes online with school holidays. This isnt an issue at Christmas/Summer or for non kids films.

Yep the delay doesnt hurt it - its more the early release and the scattered holidays.

well they should do what they did with Nemo. and play it from the beginning of september. and it will have a good 5 weeks at the box office. cuz NSW and a few other states finish holidays in october.

Top 20 Movies in Canada - Weekend of July 4, 2008
1 - Hancock Columbia $3.67M $6.83M 1
2 2 WALL·E Walt Disney $1.85M $7.86M 2
3 1 Wanted Universal $1.50M $7.30M 2
4 3 Get Smart Warner Bros. $861,846 $7.85M 3
5 4 Kung Fu Panda Paramount $601,531 $14.48M 5
6 5 The Incredible Hulk Universal $355,704 $9.07M 4
7 7 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Paramount $343,580 $26.36M 7
8 9 Sex and the City Alliance $243,805 $15.45M 6
9 8 The Love Guru Paramount $229,558 $3.41M 3
10 6 Cruising Bar 2 Alliance $196,281 $1.15M 2
11 11 You Don't Mess With the Zohan Columbia $168,421 $8.36M 5
12 10 The Happening 20th Century Fox $117,526 $4.73M 4
13 - Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Alliance $100,548 $100,548 1
14 12 Iron Man Paramount $87,532 $25.90M 10
15 14 Mongol Alliance $34,319 $228,022 5
16 13 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Walt Disney $22,934 $11.84M 8
17 - Brick Lane Mongrel Media $19,721 $19,721 1
18 18 Young People F***ing Seville $19,090 $420,206 4
19 16 What Happens in Vegas 20th Century Fox $19,076 $7.64M 9
20 19 Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Yash Raj $15,226 $76,028 2

http://www.tribute.ca/movies/boxoffice.asp

1) 7.49m IRON MAN
2) 7.00m INDY 4 (8.65m 4 days)
3) 4.88m SEX AND THE CITY
4) 4.11m NARNIA 2
5) 3.67m HANCOCK (6.83m 5 days)
6) 3.53m PANDA
7) 3.10m WANTED
8) 3.09m WALL-E
9) 3.07m HULK
10) 2.97m ZOHAN
11) 2.89m HORTON
12) 2.49m 10.000 BC
13) 2.42m GET SMART
14) 2.34m HAROLD & KUMAR 2
15) 2.26m CLOVERFIELD
16) 2.17m 21
17) 2.06m JUMPER (2.55m 4 days)