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‘Rogue One’ rakes in $96.1m over holiday weekend

By Bloomberg
28 December 2016   |   3:30 am
Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw discusses the success of 'Rogue One' at the box office and the general drop in ticket sales in 2016.

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