Warner Bros.’ Black Mass is getting scorched at the box office this weekend by 20th Century Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
The Maze Runner sequel earned $10.9M at the box office on Friday, while Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger biopic took in $8.78M. The Scorch Trials is expected to end its debut weekend with $30M, which is $2.5M less than original film scored in 2014. Besides making slightly less than the first, audiences seemed to like The Scorch Trials less than the original, receiving a ‘B+’ CinemaScore as compared to the first’s ‘A-.’
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Black Mass will end its opening weekend with $24.8M. And it can’t count on good word-of-mouth as audiences only bestowed it with a ‘B’ CinemaScore. Fuhgeddaboudit!
Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation is inching closer to $200 at the domestic box office. After pocketing $2.36M in its eight weekend its total will stand at $191.8M.
In this next chapter of the epic “Maze Runner” saga, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Barry Pepper, Lili Taylor, and Patricia Clarkson
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is now playing nationwide!
