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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Returns to the Top of the Box Office. Passes Thor

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In its seventh week, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle topped the weekend box office knocking off Maze Runner: The Death Cure which was last week’s top film. Jumanji earned an estimated $11 million to bring its domestic total to $352.6 million. Worldwide the film has earned $855.7 million. It passed Thor: Ragnarok for worldwide grosses and now is sititng in eighth. The film will likely pass Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 this week. The film still has yet to hit theaters in Japan. That doesn’t happen until April 6.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure dropped to second place with an estimated $10.2 million with a domestic total of $39.8 million and worldwide total of $182.6 million.

Winchester debuted in third place. The film earned an estimated $9.3 million. It earned a “B-” CinemaScore and had a 58% female audience with 64% overthe age of 25.

Holding steady in fourth place was The Greatest Showman which added $7.8 million to its domestic total. The film is at $137.5 million after seven weeks. The film has earned $290.5 million worldwide.

Rounding out the top five was Hostiles which dropped down from third place last week. The film earned an estimated $5.5 million to bring its domestic total to $21.2 million.

When it comes to comic film adaptations…

Thor: Ragnarok earned $249,000 domestically. The film has earned $314 million and $852.6 million worldwide.

My Friend Dahmer keeps plugging along adding an estimated $2,200 to its total. Worldwide the film has earned $1,345,104.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive and look at 2017’s comic film adaptations.

The Maze Runner Wins the Weekend Bumping Jumanji Into Second

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure was the top film at the weekend box office bumping off last weekend’s champ. The film earned an estimated $23.5 million. That’s about $7 million less than the previous film and $9 million less than the first. This third film also has the largest budget of the three films, $62 million. It also earned $15 million overseas in four markets the previous week. This weekend it added almost 70 markets and brought in $62.7 million. Worldwide the film has earned $105.5 million.

The film earned a “B+” CinemaScore and was 51% female.

In second pace was Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle which added an estimated $16.4 million. It has now earned $338.1 million domestically and has passed Spider-Man: Homecoming for domestic earnings. The film also passed Wonder Woman for worldwide earnings and now stands at $822.1 million.

In third place was Hostiles which earned an estimated $10.2 million in its sixth week. The film has earned $12.1 million domestically. The film shot up from last week’s place of #23 after it expanded the number of theaters it was in.

The Greatest Showman switched spots with the Post and came in fourth. The film added an estimated $9.5 million to its domestic total which is $126.5 million. Worldwide the film has earned $259.5 million.

The Post came in fifth with $8.9 million to bring its domestic total to $58.5 million. Worldwide the film has earned $83 million.

When it comes to comic adaptations…

Thor: Ragnarok came in at #28 and earned $183,000. Its domestic total is $313.7 million and $851.9 million worldwide.

My Friend Dahmer is still bringing in the dollars after 13 weeks with $1,500. The domestic total for the film is now $1,338,071.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into 2017’s comic adaptations on the big screen.

Review: Maze Runner: The Death Cure Official Graphic Novel Prelude

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An all new, original Maze Runner story set directly before the upcoming third film, The Death Cure. This new graphic novel bridges the gap between the second and third films.

Featuring three stories:
“Prelude” by Eric Carrasco, Kendall Goode, Valentina Pinto, and Jim Campbell.

“The Zealot” by Wes Ball, T.S. Nowlin, Jackson Lanzing, Nick Robles, Juan Manuel Tumburus, and Jim Campbell.

“A Father of Three” by Collin Kelly, Nick Robles, Juan Manuel Tumburus, and Jim Cambell.

How’s the graphic novel? What if you haven’t seen the movies or read the books? We review it and you can get it now!

Get your copy in comic shops and book stores today. To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure – Movie Review

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maze runner death cure posterAt the end of the second Maze Runner movie, The Scorch Trials, there is a giant action sequence, a giant betrayal, and our heroes are left in an incredibly dire situation. I remember thinking, “Well, that movie wasn’t great, but I can’t wait to see the sequel.”

I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up quite so much.

The Maze Runner series has tried repeatedly to show it’s better than the ersatz generic-brand Hunger Games, and this final film in their trilogy does nothing to dispel that notion.

However, it’s not all bad. And Thomas Brodie-Sangster, always drastically underused in the last two films, gets all the due he needs in this movie. If you love Newt, get ready to love every second he’s on screen.

The rest of the film never quite takes off or coalesces into something greater than the sum of its parts. It’s also overly long and has one too many plot “twists” that are entirely too predictable.

Its supporting cast, however, are doing all they can. I already mentioned Sangster, but beyond him, Giancarlo Esposito also seems to relish his screentime, although he isn’t quite the unpredictable, resourceful scoundrel of Scorch Trials. Aiden Gillen really should’ve grown out a mustache for this role so he could twirl it with all the cartoonish villainy he is channeling here. And then Walton Goggins shows up for an all-too-brief cameo and steals every scene he’s in. It’s just not enough.

The problem, as with its predecessors, is the film is just a bit thin. Its attempts at dystopian social commentary fall flat, because there really isn’t much more to say beyond, “Yeah, having a giant corporation called WCKD (it sounds like “wicked”– we get it) control every aspect of medicine, police/military, etc during an apocalyptic plague is a bad way to run society.” When it’s not being overly blunt, it loses any sort of messaging in over the top, ridiculous action scenes.

Fans of this series will go see this conclusion and will likely be satisfied. This is definitely the best of the three Maze Runner films– but that is not saying much. With so many of the films nominated for multiple awards now being put more widely into theaters to capitalize on their nominations, you’d be much better off checking one of them out than this.

2.5 out of 5 stars

Preview: Maze Runner: The Death Cure Official Graphic Novel Prelude SC

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure Official Graphic Novel Prelude SC

Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Writer: Eric Carrasco
Artist: Kendall Goode
Colorist: Valentina Pinto
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Price: $14.99

This all-new, authorized graphic novel bridges the gap between The Maze Runner hit feature films, The Scorch Trials and the upcoming The Death Cure.

They used to live and die by the Maze—a seemingly endless labyrinth of deathtraps that kept the Gladers prisoner and in fear. But the day Thomas arrived, he motivated them all to push back… and escape.

But what they discovered was far worse than any maze—a world scorched by disease and controlled by the oppressive organization, WCKD. Thomas, aided by a band of rebels, now readies to take the fight right to WCKD’s doorstep in the hope of finding a cure for the plague that’s ravaging mankind.