--- description: 'This Is Where I Leave You' gets left behind in third place title: Box Office: 'The Maze Runner' Outruns Competition image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8b7f741a2a44e22/6986a3e4d0b6f20de8306234/maze-runner.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Box Office: _The Maze Runner_ Outruns _A Walk Among the Tombstones_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 21, 2014 3:55 PM CUT  THE MAZE RUNNER Dylan O'Brien stars as Thomas in THE MAZE RUNNER. TM and © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Not for sale or duplication. THE MAZE RUNNER Dylan O'Brien stars as Thomas in THE MAZE RUNNER. TM and © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Not for sale or duplication.20th Century Fox  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 21, 2014 3:55 PM CUT Post-apocalyptic young-adult fiction scored yet _another_ victory at the box office this weekend, as [_The Maze Runner_ became the weekend’s number-one movie](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-maze-runner-crushes-734531?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") with a $32.5 million gross in North America. The adaptation of James Dashner’s YA novel, starring _Teen Wolf_‘s Dylan O’Brien, squashed the $13.1 million gross of the second-place film, the Liam Neeson action flick _A Walk Among the Tombstones_, according to _The Hollywood Reporter_. Coming in third place was Shawn Levy’s _This Is Where I Leave You_, which grossed $11.9 million despite a star-studded ensemble cast featuring Tina Fey, Jason Bateman and Jane Fonda. [In the new issue of TIME](http://time.com/3397091/this-is-where-i-leave-you-tina-fey-justin-bateman/ "undefined"), Levy said that Hollywood studios often consider nuanced, character-driven, dramatic comedies like this adaption of Jonathan Tropper’s best-selling novel to be a financial risk, so he took a pay cut and promised to make the movie for under $20 million in order to minimize the risk. “There are a lot of really great movies that are made every year that don’t have superheroes in them and don’t have things getting blown up,” [Bateman told TIME](http://time.com/3397091/this-is-where-i-leave-you-tina-fey-justin-bateman/ "undefined") at the Toronto International Film Festival. “But they don’t get the kind of attention and release they deserve.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3414584/maze-runner-this-is-where-i-leave-you-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3414584/maze-runner-this-is-where-i-leave-you-box-office/"},"headline":"Box Office: The Maze Runner Outruns A Walk Among the Tombstones","datePublished":"2014-09-21T15:55:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:19:25.260Z","description":"But This Is Where I Leave You gets left behind in third place","url":"https://time.com/3414584/maze-runner-this-is-where-i-leave-you-box-office/","keywords":["movies","tina fey","liam neeson","Jason Bateman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8b7f741a2a44e22/6986a3e4d0b6f20de8306234/maze-runner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8b7f741a2a44e22/6986a3e4d0b6f20de8306234/maze-runner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"THE MAZE RUNNER","caption":"THE MAZE RUNNER","creditText":"20th Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3414584/maze-runner-this-is-where-i-leave-you-box-office/","name":"Box Office: The Maze Runner Outruns A Walk Among the Tombstones"}}]}] ```