Dystopian young adult movie The Maze Runner won the weekend box office race in the US and Canada, collecting $32.5 million in ticket sales to outpace the Liam Neeson action flick A Walk Among the Tombstones.
Neeson’s film earned $13.1 million and finished in second place, according to estimates from tracking firm Rentrak. The comedy This is Where I Leave You landed in the No. 3 slot with takings of $11.9 million.
Maze Runner stars MTV Teen Wolf heart-throb and former teen You Tube star Dylan O’Brien as one of a group of boys living in an isolated paradise where they are trapped by a giant moving concrete maze. The movie is based on the first novel in a young adult series written by James Dashner.
In Walk Among the Tombstones, Neeson plays a private investigator hired by a drug kingpin to find out who murdered his wife. This is Where I Leave You features Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in the story of four grown siblings forced to live together for a week after their father dies.