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Box-Office: ‘Maze Runner’ Takes The Top Spot, Fox Schedules Sequel For September 2015
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Well, a new young adult-franchise has been born. Made for a relatively low $34 million, 20th Century Fox took the #1 spot this weekend with their latest Ya-entry, “The Maze Runner.” On a whopping 3,604 screens, its $32.5 million opening didn’t break the bank, nor did it outperform opening-weekend numbers from 2014 Ya movies like “The Fault In Our Stars” or “Divergent,” but it did best Ya films like “Ender’s Game” and the last “Percy Jackson” movie. And so for this more modest picture with fewer well-known stars, “The Maze Runner” did solid business. Especially when you consider that its overseas totals made for an $81.5 million dollar opening weekend global total. The film also did well considering its season, early September when audiences aren’t flocking to theaters. And so “The Maze Runner” opening was the 6th highest September opening ever, and course without 3D surcharges. 52% of audiences were female and while Dylan »
- Rodrigo Perez
Fantastic Fest Review: Horror Remake 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'
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The original "Town That Dreaded Sundown," released on Christmas Eve 1976 and based on actual events, was a minor cult classic that cast a long shadow. Its cinema verite aesthetic, which combined deadpan narration, publicly available music cues, and chilling reenactments, created a kind of true crime sensationalism that would be borrowed by everything from "Unsolved Mysteries" to the current "found footage" horror craze. Even if you've never seen the original movie, chances are you've felt its pull. So it's with some trepidation that we approached the new "Town That Dreaded Sundown" remake, a film that would not only have to live up to the boldness of the original, but also the countless imitators who approximated its sensibilities in the years that followed. And while "Town That Dreaded Sundown" is ambitious and supremely weird, it fails to cohere into something more resonant. For much of the movie it feels like what would have. »
- Drew Taylor
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