LOS ANGELES: Dystopian young adult movie ‘The Maze Runner’ won the weekend box office race in the United States and Canada, collecting $32.5 million in ticket sales to outpace the Liam Neeson action flick, ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’.
Neeson’s film earned $13.1 million from Friday through Sunday and finished in second place, according to estimates from tracking firm Rentrak. Comedy ‘This is Where I Leave You’ landed in the No. 3 slot with $11.9 million at domestic theaters.
‘Maze Runner’ fell slightly short projections for a start of $34 million, the forecast of Box Office Mojo.
The movie stars MTV ‘Teen Wolf’ heartthrob Dylan O'Brien as one of a group of boys living in an isolated paradise where they are trapped by a giant, moving concrete maze. The movie, based on the first novel in a series written by James Dashner, is an attempt to capture the young adult audience that has propelled blockbusters like ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Twilight’.
‘Maze Runner’ opened overseas on Sept. 11, and global sales through Sunday totaled $81.5 million, distributor 20th Century Fox said. The film cost $30 million to make.
‘The Maze Runner’ was released by 20th Century Fox, a unit of 21st Century Fox. ‘Walk Among the Tombstones’ was distributed in the United States by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp and in Canada by Entertainment One Group. ‘This is Where I Leave You’ and ‘Dolphin Tale 2’ were released by Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
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