'Scorch Trials' light up the box office

Warner Bros.; 20TH Century Fox Studios

'Scorch Trials' light up the box office - The Maze Runner franchise still  has  heat.

The Scorch Trials,  a  sequel  in order to  last fall's  the  Maze Runner, sprinted  to be able to  No. 1  at the   field   department   intended for   the  $30.3  mil  weekend,  According to   online video media  tracking  business  Rentrak.  ones  PG-13 rated film scored  inside  younger moviegoers, 63%  involving   whom  were under 25  ALONG WITH  skewed female (53%).

The opening  is really a  step  along   through  Maze's  start   your own  same weekend last year ($32.5 million,  at   the   way to  $102.4  million  total).  The item  follows  a  similar trajectory  towards  Divergent series,  in which  dipped slightly  coming from   it is   initial  installment ($54.6 million)  to help  second (Insurgent, $52.3 million)  previously   the actual  year. Neither have reached  your current  tremendous heights  of  another post-apocalyptic teen franchise,  the  Hunger Games, whose three films have amassed nearly $1.2  million   with the   US  alone,  that has a  final film out  within  November.

Still, both  your own  Maze  AS WELL AS  Divergent movies prove "the consistency  of any  young-adult audience," says Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak's senior analyst. "They're not growing  with   a  huge rate, but we're  also  not seeing  an  massive drop-off." Among  this type of  series, "Hunger Games  is the  granddaddy  AS WELL AS   most of these  others  tend to be  profit-making  models   The idea   develop   at   That  younger audience's need  intended for   a lot more than   sole  franchise."