‘Maze Runner’ leads movie race
‘Maze Runner’ leads movie race
NEW YORK (AP) — The young-adult adaptation “The Maze Runner” raced to the top of the box-office with $32.5 million, giving a budding franchise a quick start out of the gate.
The 20th Century Fox release easily outpaced the $13.1 million debut of Liam Neeson’s hardboiled private eye thriller “A Walk Among the Tombstones” and the $11.9 million opening for the ensemble-cast dramedy “This Is Where I Leave You,” according to studio estimates Sunday.
The strong opening for “The Maze Runner” is a big success for a movie that cost $34 million to make and was released in the normally quiet month of September.
The film is about a group of teenage boys mysteriously locked inside a giant maze.
Derek Jeter corn maze opens in NJ
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Fans are flocking to a New Jersey farm that has opened a 5-acre corn maze carved in honor of New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.
The VonThun Farm in South Brunswick opened its Jeter corn maze Saturday. The farm is about 55 miles south of Yankee Stadium, where Jeter is playing in his final regular-season home stand.
“Thanks Captain Clutch” is carved into the maze, along with a baseball with Jeter’s No. 2 on it. The maze will be open through Oct. 31.