While critics largely took the side of W.C.K.D. and gave the heroes of Maze Runner Sequel The Scorch Trials a bit of a roasting, the second film based on James Dashner’s YA book series was fleet enough to register with audiences and walk away with the top spot this weekend and $30.3 million, according to studio estimates.
Adding in earnings elsewhere, the movie has now made more than $108.3 million globally, even if it opened domestically lower than last year’s official effort, which made $32.5 million. So the franchise appears to have a level, which is something for the planned third film, The Death Cure, to aim for in 2017.
Second place went to Johnny Depp’s latest, Black Mass, with the actor playing notorious real-life Boston gangster Whitey Bulger. Depp could use a hit after the likes of Transcendence and Mortdecai, and Black Mass is doing decent business, opening with $23.3 million. The two new arrivals pushed M. Night Shyamalan’s low-budget horror comedy thriller The Visit to third place, with the film earning an additional $11.3 million for $42.3 million so far. That’s still a better second week than last weekend’s champ, The Perfect Guy, which slipped to fourth and $9.6 million. Rounding out the top five was new arrival Everest, not exactly scaling the heights and pulling in just $7.5 million. But that was on a more limited release platform of 545 screens, so there’s always a chance a wider release will help boost matters.
Sixth was faith-based drama War Room, earning $6.2 million, ahead of A Walk In The Woods in seventh with $2.7 million. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was down to eighth and $2.2 million, while Straight Outta Compton fell to ninth with $1.9 million. 10th place went to new drama Captive, which launched on 806 screens, but took in just $1.4 million.
To see Dylan O’Brien and the Maze Runner gang outrun Johnny Depp in the full chart listings, head to Box Office Mojo.
from Empire News
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