Weekend Box Office: 'Maze Runner: Scorch Trials' Sprints To Lower Debut Than …

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials covers more ground than the franchise's first installment, but bigger isn't necessarily better.

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 

At present, the only way to see director Baltasar Kormákur's adventure drama Everest – the only legal way, at any rate – is in its IMAX 3D presentation, as the film won't be released in other, less surcharge-filled formats until September 25. Yet even

In Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the second in the Maze Runner series, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers, including Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), find themselves facing their greatest challenge yet at the desolate landscape of the Scorch.

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