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World Box Office Weekending 15th January 2016: Passengers travels to the top, Bye Bye Man is top new film

World Box Office Weekending 15th January 2016:  Passengers travels to the top, Bye Bye Man is top new film
Passengers
Passengers starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence climbs to the top of the Global box office during a slow week due to its release in China.

The film got released during the end of 2016 and with a delayed release in China makes it to the top with a weekly gross of $38 million from 66 countries.

Passengers global gross has now reached $237.1 million after 4 weeks of release.

Topping the charts last week Assasins Creed falls down to number 5 this week with a weekly gross of $24.6 million which brings its total gross to $185.4 million.

Highest new entry this week is The Bye Bye Man which lands at 8 from 13 countries and takes $14.6 million on its opening weekend.

Highest total grossing movie on the global chart this week is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story wiht $979.9 million and is still out in 54 countries.

Assasins creed is the film with the widest release with 77 countries.

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