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Social Media Buzz: ‘Maze Runner’ Buries Liam Neeson’s ‘Tombstones’
Does digital data offer indicators that can be used to monitor marketing effectiveness and predict box office success even before awareness turns into intent? We analyzed this weekend’s new movies...
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Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Outpaces Liam Neeson on Way to $31 Million Debut
YA adaptation “The Maze Runner” has far outpaced the Liam Neeson-starrer “Walk Among the Tombstones.” “The Maze Runner” opened to $11.3 million Stateside on Friday. Fox’s dystopian drama is on track...
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Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Sprints Past Liam Neeson With $32.5 Million
“The Maze Runner” showed that sometimes the weekend box office is a marathon, not a sprint. Twentieth Century Fox’s adaptation of James Dashner’s post-apocalyptic novel took awhile to build up steam,...
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How ‘Maze Runner’ Escaped the Young Adult Franchise Curse
“The Maze Runner” kicked off a fresh young adult film franchise this weekend when it raced to an $81.5 million debut globally. Despite the monster grosses of “The Hunger Games” and “Twilight,” hit...
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Korea Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Trots to Top Spot
Hollywood returns to the top of the Korean charts
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Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Dracula’ Drinks In DAR Debut; But ‘Mockingjay’...
Each week Variety publishes ListenFirst Digital Audience Ratings (DAR), a measurement of fan engagement across all the major digital platforms as it relates to film (see the TV version here). Provided...
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Box Office: ‘The Equalizer’ Debuts to Smashing $35 Million
Denzel Washington and “The Equalizer” were number one with a bullet this weekend, as the revenge thriller picked up an impressive $35 million across 3,234 locations. That figure gave it a comfortable...
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‘The Maze Runner’ Tops Foreign Box Office for Second Week
“The Maze Runner” sprinted to the top of the foreign box office charts for the second week in a row, outdistancing “The Equalizer,” which ruled over U.S. multiplexes. The big screen adaptation of James...
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Korea Box Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Heads Slow Weekend
Hollywood titles “The Maze Runner” and “Begin Again” continued to hold the top spots in another low key weekend at the Korean box office.
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Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Annabelle’ Bring Fear to Top 5;...
Each week Variety publishes ListenFirst Digital Audience Ratings (DAR), a measurement of fan engagement across all the major digital platforms as it relates to film (see the TV version here). Provided...
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Leads Home Video Sales Charts
Paramount Home Media Distribution is a big winner in the holiday season dating game. Studios in the fourth quarter typically follow one of two strategies in bringing their summer tentpoles to home...
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Remains at No. 1 on Home Video Sales Charts
With no new significant new releases coming out the week of Christmas, the national home video charts for the week ending Dec. 28, 2014, were virtually unchanged from the prior week. On the Nielsen...
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‘Gone Girl’ Tops Home Video Sales Charts, ‘Maze Runner’ Leads Rentals
Two new releases, both about missing women, topped the national home video sales charts last week. The top seller, by far, was 20th Century Fox’s “Gone Girl,” an acclaimed mystery about a man suspected...
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Fox to Release ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’ in Multi-Screen Format
Digital projection company Barco and 20th Century Fox have signed a five-year, multi-title per year agreement to release movies in Barco’s multi-screen immersive movie format Barco Escape. Fox will be...
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Stan Lee Film in Development at Fox
Fox has launched development of a Stan Lee movie and set up the project with Temple Hill’s Mary Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, producers of the “Twilight” and “Maze Runner” franchises. Fox has acquired Lee’s...
View Article‘Maze Runner’ Author ‘Deeply Sorry’ Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
James Dashner, author of the “Maze Runner” dystopian fiction series, issued an apology addressing sexual harassment allegations made against him, admitting that he was “part of the problem” that led to...
View Article‘Maze Runner’ Star Dylan O’Brien Joins ‘Education of Fredrick Fitzell’
Dylan O’Brien, whose credits include “The Maze Runner,” “American Assassin” and “Deepwater Horizon,” and Maika Monroe, who appeared in “It Follows,” “I’m Not Here,” “The Guest” and “The Bling Ring,”...
View Article‘Maze Runner’ Franchise Returns With ‘Death Cure’ Trailer
Salvation is the dominant theme in the action-packed trailer for “Maze Runner: The Death Cure.” In the trailer, Dylan O’Brien’s character (Thomas) and his allies attempt to break into the Last City via...
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