'Maze Runner' pulls away with big box office win
This race led right to the top.
The young-adult adaptation 'The Maze Runner' escaped with a box-office leading $32.5 million in ticket sales - a good start for what 20th Century Fox hopes will be a franchise.
Liam Neeson's hardboiled private eye thriller 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' opened in second with $13.1 million, and the ensemble-cast dramedy 'This Is Where I Leave You' finished third with $11.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The strong opening for 'The Maze Runner,' adapted from James Dashner's science-fiction YA novel, is a big success for a movie that cost just $34 million to make.
'Our little $34-million-budgeted film is pretty darn strong,' said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox. 'No one had launched a YA title in September. We took a risk, but it paid off.'
'The Maze Runner,' which drew a 51 percent female audience despite an almost all-male cast, is now a promising franchise. Aronson announced Sunday that the planned sequel, 'The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,' will bow Sept. 18 next year.
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