The Scorch Trials is a GO!
Sep. 21st, 2014 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Following the successful box office opening of YA film adaptation The Maze Runner, 20th Century Fox has quickly set a date for the sequel.
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, based on the second book in James Dashner's book series, will hit theaters Sept. 18, 2015.
Over the weekend, The Maze Runner opened to a pleasing $32.5 million at the North American box office.
Overseas, Maze Runner also impressed, taking in another $37.6 million for an early worldwide total of $81.5 million (the film began rolling out in several territories last weekend).
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NICE! $81 mil. in one weekend when the movie cost $34 mil. to make? VERY NICE! And the sequel is now officially a GO! YAY!