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US box office report 16th January 2015: American Sniper gets a massive grossing weekend after Oscar nominations

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American Sniper
Clint Eastwood scores his biggest every weekend gross with American Sniper now on wide release in America, and on the back of major award success.

American Sniper has been on limited release since the end of last year and on it's first weekend in 3,555 screen takes nearly $90 million.

Last weeks top film, Tak3n, fall right down to number 4 this week, it's $17.4 million gross is 55% down from it's debut weekend.

Also new this week is Padding at number 2, The Wedding Ringer at number 3, Selma is at number 5 after 4 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

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