![]() ![]() The Scorch Trials, a longer, more expense and frankly inferior sequel, opened a year later with $30m and ended its run with $81m domestic and $312m worldwide on a $61m budget. The first Maze Runner had a leggy (ha!) run in September of 2014, opening with $32 million and ending with $103m domestic and $348m on a $34m budget. ![]() So there isn’t much at stake beyond dollars and sense for investors and the financial legacy of the series. ![]() Even if absence hasn’t made the heart grow fonder, this is the final episode in a self-contained story. But Fast and Furious now offers a movie every two years, the MCU has three movies per year (with, yes, the specific franchises going 2-4 between installments) and the YA sub-genre ( Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight, Divergent) got us used to one movie every year. Sure some old-school franchises, like Jurassic World or Mission: Impossible, are still dropping an installment every 3-4 years.
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