Top 20 films in Canada (by box office gross) for year end 2003

I might accept 2002 numbers if 2003 is unavailable.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 09 Jul 2004 11:36 PDT

I located the top 10 movies in Canada for July 2 - 4, 2004. This
listing  includes weekend gross ($) and  total gross ($) for each
movie.

Would this information be of your interest?

Thanks,

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Clarification of Question by ferrisap-ga on 09 Jul 2004 11:46 PDT

Just the numbers for the year ending in 2003 are of interest me.

Thanks

Hi ferrisap,

Thank you for letting me know that the combined statistics for the US
and Canada would be suitable.

DOMESTIC = NORTH AMERICA

International does not include Canada:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/

1) MOJO: 2003 Domestic Grosses:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2003&p=.htm

2) Box Office Report: Domestic: 2003: Last updated on Jun. 23, 2004
http://www.boxofficereport.com/ybon/2003gross.shtml

Additional Links:

"Domestic amounts include US and Canada."
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/intl.htm

"The number listed in the most recent domestic (US and Canada)
theatrical box office gross we have available."
http://www.leesmovieinfo.net/BoxOfficeInserts.php

Thanks again,
hummer

I searched all "box office" statistic websites that I could find.

Thanks

This turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. As you have
no doubt discovered, movie box office grosses in the US and Canada are
combined to give North America grand totals. So far, I have been
unable to find a breakout that gives Canada only. Even a leading
Canadian newspaper, reports on 2003 results by givng the North America
totals:
www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/movie/MOVIEREVIEWS/20040...

Another instance of American culturial colonialism?

It's very likely that the top 20 films in the US were also the top 20
films in Canada. But it is also possible that the rankings would be
different in the two countries. And I suspect that it is even possible
that a film that does boffo business in the US may not do so well in
Canada and therefore may NOT make the Top 20 Canada list (if such a
list exists). The American market is so huge and the Canadian market
so small in comparison, that a lackluster performance in Canada might
not prevent a film from making the Top 20 North America list,
providing that it does great in the US.

Canadians do have their own preferences (including for Canadian
films). Take Fahrenheit 9/11 for example. It may make this year's top
20 North America list. BUT if there were a breakout of the US and
Canada, it is quite conceivable that it would rank higher in Canada
than in the US because anti-war and anti-Bush sentiment is even more
prevalent and fierce there than it is in the US.

Just some thoughts for you.
scribe_ga

Thanks for the comment scribe.  It seems that Canada only stats are
available from Nielson but they don't make that info publicly
available.  The Canada & US combined fiogures should be sufficient.

FWIW, a few weeks ago I discovered this site which lists both the
North American Top Ten *and* the Canadian Top Ten:

http://www.tribute.ca/box_office/box_office.htm

It changes every week, but I have been keeping track of the
differences between Canadian and "North American" figures for a few
weeks now, here:

http://artsandfaith.com//index.php?showtopic=3066

As of last week, Canada had about 9.7% of the "North American"
population but accounted for 14.1% of the box office of Fahrenheit
9/11, while accounting for only 5.0% of the box office of Catwoman. 
It seems that films which mock American politics (such as Fahrenheit)
and films with a British hook (such as King Arthur and Harry Potter)
do noticeably better here, while films of a dumb-lowbrow-vulgar-humour
nature (such as Anchorman, DodgeBall, White Chicks) do noticeably
worse.

FWIW, I also came across a story in the Globe and Mail in which Dan
Fellman of Warner Brothers said most films do about 8% of their "North
American" business in Canada, but Troy (which was a huge hit
internationally) made about 14% of its "North American" money here. 
And I believe I read a report several months ago which said The
Passion of the Christ made about 6-7% of its "North American" money in
Canada.  So there are definitely cultural differences.

Oh, one other thing.  It seems so-called "urban" (i.e.
African-American) films don't do as well in Canada as they do in the
United States, for obvious demographic reasons.  I remember how, the
week You Got Served was #1 in "North America", the newspaper ads for
The Butterfly Effect proclaimed that *that* film, which came a distant
second in "North America", was #1 in Canada!  (That week, You Got
Served made $16.1 million in "North America", while The Butterfly
Effect made $9.6 million -- barely more than half.  That's how big the
gap is!)