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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 29 January 2018
'Maze Runner' installment tops charts, Oscars pics get boost

By LINDSEY BAHR release was delayed a year
AP Film Writer by 20th Century Fox after
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Maze star Dylan O'Brien's on-set
Runner: The Death Cure" is injury in early 2016.
the highest grossing film of It was still enough to push
the weekend, but accord- "Jumanji: Welcome to the
ing to studio estimates Sun- Jungle" back down to sec-
day, many moviegoers also ond place for the first time
chose the first weekend af- in three weeks. Down only
ter Oscar nominations to 16 percent, "Jumanji" add-
catch up with some awards ed $16.4 million, bringing its
contenders like "The Shape total to a robust $338.1 mil-
of Water" which had its lion.
highest grossing frame with "It was going to take a big
$5.7 million. franchise film to knock 'Ju-
In first place, "The Death manji' off the top of the
Cure" took in a higher than chart," said comScore se-
expected $23.5 million. It's nior media analyst Paul This undated image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows, foreground from left, Dylan O'Brien,
the third and final install- Dergarabedian. Giancarlo Esposito and Rosa Salazar in a scene from "Maze Runner: The Death Cure."
ment in the "Maze Runner" In third place, the Christian (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)
series based on James Bale Western "Hostiles" ex-
Dashner's dystopian young panded wide to 2,816 the- theater counts of many Os- Water," which had a lead- actor (Richard Jenkins),
adult novels and the weak- aters in its sixth weekend car hopefuls following nom- ing 13 nominations for Fox among others and has
est opening of the three and earned $10.2 million. inations Tuesday. Steven Searchlight, added 1,001 grossed $37.7 million to
(the first opened to $32.5 The Hugh Jackman musical Spielberg's Pentagon Pa- theaters which put it back date. Fox Searchlight also
million and the second to "The Greatest Showman" pers drama "The Post," from in the top 10 in its ninth added theaters for “Three
$30.3 million). Part of that kept going strong in fourth 20th Century Fox, placed weekend of release. The Billboards Outside Ebbing,
may be attributable to with $9.5 million, down only fifth in its third weekend in film is nominated for best Missouri,” which scored
stalled momentum and a 11 percent, and now boast- wide release with $8.9 mil- picture, best director, best seven Oscar nominations
two-and-a-half-year gap ing a total of $126.5 million. lion. actress (Sally Hawkins), sup- Tuesday, and earned $3.6
between the second and Many audiences also took Guillermo del Toro's fanta- porting actress (Octavia million over the weekend
third film. "The Death Cure's" advantage of the added sy romance "The Shape of Spencer) and supporting (an 88 percent boost). q