

Earl Brown, David Harbour, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Scott, Juno Temple The Scorch Trials might lose some teen and older males to the gangster flick Black Mass (see below), but there should still be a large audience of moviegoers that liked The Maze Runner and want to find out what happens next, so it should be good for an opening in the low-to-mid $40 million on its way to closer to $115 to 120 million domestic.ĭirector: Scott Cooper ( Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart)Ĭast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, W. That should help The Scorch Trials open significantly higher, although it could also be more frontloaded than The Maze Runner.
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Unlike some of those other young adult movies, The Maze Runner does appeal to guys (maybe because the protagonist is male) and that should allow The Scorch Trials to bring in a larger audience than the original movie, since the original movie is likely to have found more fans after its theatrical release via download and home entertainment releases. Most of the original cast members are back joined by Aidan Gillen from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and Giancarlo Esposito from “Breaking Bad,” but as is normally the case with these movies, they’re primarily targeting teen girls and slightly older women who’ve read the books and find the likes of Dylan O’Brien and Thomas Brodie-Sangster to be quite dreamy. Granted, that’s not quite on par with either of those other franchises I mentioned, but it’s a start, and the first movie received better reviews than these young adult movies normally do with 64% on Rotten Tomatoes–the sequel so far is slightly lower with 62%–and a decent 6.8 out of 10 on IMDb.

Director Wes Ball made his feature film debut with the adaptation released this weekend last year with a respectable $32.5 million on its way to $102.5 million domestic and $340.7 million worldwide.
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Once Thomas learns the truth, he leads the group out into the Scorch where they need to face new challenges.ĭue to the success of young adult movies like The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games, every even slightly popular genre book series for teens has been optioned for a movie and James Dashner’s 2009 book The Maze Runner is no exception. What It’s About: After getting out of the Glade in last year’s The Maze Runner, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the other Gladers end up at the barracks of a mysterious man named Janson (Aidan Gillen) who claims to want to help them. Maze Runner: The Scorch TrialsĬast: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Rosa Salazar, Will Poulter, Aidan Gillen, Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Patricia Clarkson, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Tudyk, Lili Taylor, Barry Pepper I’m still super-busy with the Toronto International Film Festival going on for the rest of the week, but that doesn’t keep Hollywood from releasing movies to the rest of the country and it’s another typically busy week with three wide releases and a couple of smaller releases, including ones that will expand wide in the weeks to come. The Weekend Warrior looks at the releases for Friday, September 18, including Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Black Mass and Captive
