Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Friday Box Office: “The Maze Runner” is Highest Grossing Number 1 in Six Weeks

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The movie box office could be worse, I suppose. It WAS worse just a couple of weeks ago. On Friday, “The Maze Runner” was the highest grossing number 1 since August 8th, when “Guardians of the Galaxy” had a second hit week at $25 million. “Maze Runner 2” debuted with $11.2 million. The top 9 movies yesterday made a total of around $28 million. A lot of movie exec mansions will face foreclosure soon if this keeps up.

WIthout “Maze Runner 2,” last night would have been pretty much of a loss. Not much to snark about. Most everything is a holdover from past weeks. “This Is Where I Leave You” was left by many, and took in just $3.5 million last night. But I bet it plays well on cable and TV outlets, Netflix etc. Luckily, it didn’t have a big budget. Even the well reviewed “A Walk Among the Tombstones” was a snore, with $4.7 million last night.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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