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"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" tops North American box office for second time

Xinhua, December 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

The new "Star Wars" movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" continued to dominate the North American box office in its second week of release, followed by the animated film "Sing."

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" took in 96.1 million U.S. dollars over the four-day Christmas weekend, according to the box office tracking service comScore. The 11-day revenue of this "Star Wars" sequel in North America was 318 million dollars.

Internationally, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" got 47.1 million dollars from 54 markets for the three-day weekend frame. Its overseas box office revenue was 237.4 million dollars and the worldwide gross was 523.8 million dollars.

In second place was the animated musical "Sing," which took in an estimated 56.1 million dollars on the four-day holiday weekend. The demographic breakdown for "Sing" in North America skewed towards male moviegoers at 51 percent, with 61 percent of admissions coming from family moviegoers. First-night audiences in North America gave "Sing" an "A" on CinemaScore.

The third place went to the science fiction adventure film "Passengers," with 23.1 million dollars in four days. The R-rated comedy "Why Him?" was fourth with 16.7 million dollars, while the video game-based "Assassin's Creed" was fifth with 15 million dollars for the Friday-through-Monday period.

Total 2016 revenue at theaters in the United States and Canada is projected to be 11.3 billion dollars, which would be a 1.5-percent increase over 2015's record total of 11.1 billion dollars.

Rounding out the rest top 10 films at the box office were "Fences" (11.4 million dollars), "Moana" (10.4 million), "La La Land" (9.7 million), "Office Christmas Party" (7.2 million), and "Collateral Beauty" (7 million). Endi