‘Casino Royale’ tops Canadian box office
While the animated penguins of Happy Feet beat out Bond in the US, it was a different story in Canada. Casino Royale more than doubled the take of Feet, earning $5.2 million over the weekend.
Royale, the 21st James Bond film and the first featuring new lead Daniel Craig, grossed a total of $46.8 million in North America and $96.5 worldwide.
Back in Canada, the aforementioned Happy Feet earned $2.4 million, to place at a distant second.
In third place, the reality-comedy Borat took in $1.9 million, and has earned $11.3 million in three weeks of theatrical release.
On November 22, wide-release openings include Denzel Washington in Deja Vu, Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick in Deck the Halls, Hugh Jackman in The Fountain and Jack Black in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny.
On November 23, Emilio Estevez’s Bobby opens in over 1,600 screens.
All box office figures provided are estimates provided by film studios for the weekend of November 17-19, 2006. All grosses in Canadian dollars unless noted. Generally speaking, studios earn about 55 percent of a film’s gross.
1 – Casino Royale – 5,236,603 (Total gross – 5,236,603)
2 – Happy Feet – 2,457,969 (Total gross – 2,457,969)
3 – Borat – 1,961,498 (Total gross – 11,386,270)
4 – The Santa Clause 3 – 857,552 (Total gross – 4,185,454)
5 – Stranger than Fiction – 688,631 (Total gross – 2,480,561)
6 – Flushed Away – 599,580 (Total gross – 3,608,264)
7 – Babel – 415,766 (Total gross – 1,710,232)
8 – The Queen – 307,380 (Total gross – 3,239,243)
9 – The Prestige – 261,972 (Total gross – 5,763,562)
10 – The Departed – 223,374 (Total gross – 11,389,090)
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