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World Box Office Week ending 19 August 2018: The Meg retains its top position

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The Meg
The Meg retained its lead on the global box office this week with no film really giving it a challenge with the highest new film, Europe Raiders, coming in at number 7.

The Island

The giant shark movie starring Jason Statham grossed $88 million dollars from 56 countries on its second weekend of global release.

This brings the film total global gross to $314.1 million after 2 weeks of release.

Staying at 2 on the chart is Chinese film The Island which takes $38.7 million from 3 countries to bring its total global gross to $163.1.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is at 3 this week, a $31.9 million weekly gross brings the films total to $425.9 million.

Mission:Impossible Fallout is at number 4 with $31 million while Crazy Rich Asians is at number 5 with $25.9 million.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

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