--- title: 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' Wins Weekend Box Office description: But it still falls short from the original 'Maze Runner' debut canonical: https://time.com/4041897/maze-runner-scorch-trials-black-mass-weekend-box-office/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-20T23:27:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:45.333Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' Wins Weekend Box Office og:description: But it still falls short of the original 'Maze Runner' debut og:url: https://time.com/4041897/maze-runner-scorch-trials-black-mass-weekend-box-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89159150e87a09fd/69886477196cf436e10381d1/maze-runner-the-scorch-trials.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) is about to make some major noise. 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Steven James Snyder, Techland's resident movie geek, outlines the top 5 most under-rated sci-fi movies of all time_ by [Devan Coggan/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan/EW Sep 20, 2015 11:27 PM UTC  Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) in "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) in "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials"Richard Foreman Jr.—Twentieth Century Fox by [Devan Coggan/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan/EW Sep 20, 2015 11:27 PM UTC A busy weekend at the box office saw a slew of new openings and some solid debuts, as _Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials_ easily won the weekend with an estimated $30.3 million. Although most expected _Scorch Trials_ to earn about $35 million, it actually fell short of the original _Maze Runner_’s $32.5 million debut. Still, it’s a strong opening for the adaptation of James Dashner’s young adult novel, which earned a B+ CinemaScore and stars Dylan O’Brien as a teenager struggling to survive in a scorched wasteland. In second place, _Black Mass_ opened to $23.4 million and a B CinemaScore. Starring Johnny Depp as the legendary Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, _Black Mass’_ debut puts it on par with other Boston crime flicks like _The Departed_, which opened to $26.9 million in 2006, and _The Town_, which opened to $23.8 million in 2010. Fifth place went to _Everest_, which opened exclusively on 3-D, IMAX, and premium screens and earned a whopping $7.6 million in only 545 locations. Based on the [true story](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/18/everest-director-baltasar-kormakur) of a 1996 disaster, _Everest_ stars [Josh Brolin](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/18/everest-josh-brolin-fear-of-heights), Jason Clarke, and Jake Gyllenhaal and will go wide next weekend. _Everest_ also opened in 36 international territories, bringing its worldwide total to an estimated $35.8 million. M. Night Shyamalan’s _The Visit_ topped the holdovers, earning an estimated $11.4 million. The thriller’s domestic total is now at an estimated $42.3 million after 10 days. _The Perfect Guy_, which debuted in first place last weekend, came in just behind, earning $9.7 million for a domestic total of $41.4 million. This weekend’s other new wide release, the faith-based drama _Captive_, opened to an estimated $1.4 million in 800 theaters. Based on a true story, _Captive_ stars Kate Mara as a woman taken hostage by an escaped convict (David Oyelowo). At the specialty box office, _Pawn Sacrifice_, starring Tobey Maguire as chess legend Bobby Fischer, earned an estimated $206,879 in 33 theaters, while _Sicario_, starring [Emily Blunt](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/18/emily-blunt-sicario) as an FBI agent taking on the drug war, earned $390,000 in just six theaters. For _Sicario_, that’s an average of $65,000 per theater — the best so far this year._Sicario_ will go wide on Oct. 2. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/20/box-office-report-maze-runner-scorch-trials-black-mass-everest-sicario) _originally appeared at_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ## Transcript >> Man, I love the scene-- Tai Chi against the stars. I asked The Fountain, now that, that's a good movie. I'm Steven James Snyder, movie geek with TechLand and anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am obsessed with the 2006, Darren Aronofsky's film: The Fountain. A pretty trippy- tail of the past, the present, the future, a man trying to cheat death and it got mixed reviews when it came out but I'm pretty convinced that I like it more than anyone on the planet, probably including the director. For three months now on TechLand, we've opened up the debate as to the five most underrated sci- fi masterpieces of all time. First up, the 1972 Eco- space opera, Silent Running, which is about a spaceship called Valley Forge that's been dispatched from a dying planet earth, the last bits of human vegetation. It's a little preachy. There's a few jawn via songs about protecting the plant life that's a little over the top but some of the closing shots of this domes filled with the familiar green of earth being sent out into the cold black of space. It's pretty haunting. Number four, Gattaca, the 1997, Ethan Hawke thriller about a future in which humans are all genetically modified. The majority of humans have been genetically perfected and those who are born via natural means operate in a lower rung of society. They have been plenty of other thrillers about cloning, I mean, even when we talk about Replicants and Blade Runner, but something about this movie which didn't get much fanfare when it was put into theaters stuck with us in the notion of a genetically stratified society. >> You keep your workstation so clean Jerome. >> It's next to godliness isn't that what they say? >> And number three: Serenity, the 2005 Josh Whedon space- western. It was a huge hit among TechLand fan. The plot revolves around in alliance and the rebels who are on the run with a telepathic secret weapon and it all builds up to one of these hulky, huge climactic space battles that you never forgive. >> Target the [ unk ]. Target the [ unk ]. Target everyone. Somebody fire. >> Number two: Dark City. It's all about a man who wakes up in a bath tub one morning without a memory to speak of, accused of murder, who must go on the run through this crazy, foreign foreboding futuristic city. The most haunting image, the whole thing must be the strangers or the white- faced supernatural being seemed to control everything about this other worldly China town. And the ending is all about figuring out who the strangers really are and what their abilities really are. It has to be one of the great surprise endings of all time. >> Finds and wondering like lost children. But this one was different. Yes. >> What does the doctor say about this? >> His filthy report in and to Mr. Quick, no more Mr. Quick. Mr. Quick is dead. >> And the number one underrated masterpiece has to be a little 2004 film that was directed by a guy name Shane Carruth who raised $ 7, 000 and used his parents garage to create a film called Primer. Primer drops us into the middle of a conversation in progress as four engineers spent every night in the garage trying to come up with the next big inventions that's gonna make them rich. And what sets Primer apart is the short hand that they use. The way we try to keep up with them and it takes us a few minutes to realize the implications of this box that they've devised that can warp time space. It takes us a few moments, few beats to realize this is a time machine. It's trippy stuff. There's no doubt about it but it works not only on a scientific level but also in terms of philosophy and personal relationships as these two best friends start to travel back and forth three times, never realizing the larger ramification that could accompany Pandora's box. >> I don't even know for sure. >> So what do you think? Have you seen our five picks? Have another idea for an underrated masterpiece? You can join the debate. 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