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If teenagers could vote, Hillary Clinton would have that demo locked down by a landslide – at least according to the 2016 Teen Choice Awards, held tonight at The Forum in Los Angeles and broadcast live on Fox where the Democratic candidate for President won the Choice President prize (she obviously wasn’t on hand to…

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials co-star Dylan O’Brien might have thought his played-out joke about Native American burial curses would provoke laughs during a recent appearance on Live With Kelly and Michael, but a possible PR migraine for 20th Century Fox resulted instead, after O’Brien’s admission that he and other…

Warner Bros.’ Whitey Bulger gangster film Black Mass, despite being the No. 2 movie last weekend with $22.6M, has ruled No. 1 at the weekday B.O. from Monday through Wednesday, beating last weekend’s champ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials from 20th Century Fox. A lot of this has to do with the time of year: The under-25…

After three up weekends in a row, September moviegoing continues to clickety-clack with Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2 set to take No. 1 with a FSS in the low $30Ms, maybe $40M at 3,752 theaters. The studio will be very happy if they hit $32M; in fact that would make it their highest opening calendar year to…

UPDATED, Monday, 1:35, 4:00 and 4:17 PM PT: Final tallies are in for stateside openers Everest and Maze Runner: Scorch Trials which grabbed $28.8M and $43.2M, respectively. Scorch Trials total cume so far is $78M. Interesting that in India, Everest opened so strong with $1.4M in only 450 runs that it beat out all…

8th UPDATE, Monday, 2:04 PM: Fox’s Maze Runner ended the weekend with a total of $30.3M, down about 7% from the first installment which debuted last year at this time with $32.5M. Black Mass had a smaller final take this morning of $22.6M (the studio estimated $23.3M yesterday) which is still a solid number for Warner…

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials is only slightly ahead right now of its predecessor and with the $1.7M in previews, it looks on track to gross anywhere around $10.5M to $11.5M today, compared to last year’s Friday gross for Maze Runner of $11.2M. The first installment of the Fox franchise based on the YA book by James…

This weekend’s box office should rev up, thanks to Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials which should push past the first installment’s $32.5M opening last year at this time. The film has already opened in overseas markets and has surpassed the first by 40%. Although that kind of percentage increase is not expected to…

FINAL UPDATE, 1:23 PM PT: Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials kicked off in 21 international markets a week before it lands in theaters in North America where it is expected to open stronger than the first installment which opened to $32.5M last year. Finals are in also for the Paramount/Skydance holdover Mission: Imp…

“The course of your lives will determine the course of humanity — into light or darkness.” Pretty heavy burden to assign a pack of youngsters, but that’s how it goes in this first trailer for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and company are back for another run through the…