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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has topped the US box office in its first weekend.

The sequel took $30.3m to fend off competition from Johnny Depp’s Black Mass.

Black Mass, which also stars Benedict Cumberbatch, is in second place with $23.6m, while M Night Shyamalan horror The Visit is at number three with $11.3m.

Last week’s number one The Perfect Guy is at four with $9.6m and The War Room is at five with $6.2m.

Elsewhere, NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton remains in the top 10 after a solid run at the top of the chart, taking another $1.9m at the box office.

The US weekend box office top 10 for September 18 – 20 (studio estimates) is as follows:
1. (-) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – $30,300,000
2. (-) Black Mass – $23,360,000
3. (2) The Visit – $11,350,000
4. (1) The Perfect Guy – $9,640,000
5. (3) The War Room – $6,250,000
6. (4) A Walk in the Woods – $2,732,730
7. (5) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $2,250,000
8. (6) Straight Outta Compton – $1,970,000
9. (-) Captive – $1,400,000
10. (7) No Escape – $1,017,000

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Sanaa Lathan’s The Perfect Guy topped the US box office this weekend.

The Perfect Guy debuted in the number one spot with $26.7m, followed by M Night Shyamalan’s newest film The Visit with $25.6m.

Lathan stars in the stalker thriller about a new relationship with Michael Ealy’s character, who turns out not to be that perfect after all.

Last weekend’s number one movie War Room slipped to third place with $7.4m, but it was Straight Outta Compton that had a huge drop at the box office.

The NWA biopic, which held the number one spot for three weekends in a row, went from number two to sixth place with $4m. However, Straight Outta Compton has managed to racked up a total gross of $155.7m.

Robert Redford and Nick Nolte’s A Walk in the Woods went from third place to fourth place with $4.6m.

Meanwhile, Tom Cruise’s latest spy film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation kept its number five spot with $4.1m. Its total domestic gross is now $188.2m.

New release 90 Minutes in Heaven, starring Kate Bosworth and Hayden Christensen, also took a spot in the top 10 list, coming in at ninth place with $2.1m. The movie is based on Don Piper’s bestselling book by the same name.

Rounding off this week’s top 10 are No Escape, The Transporter Refueled and Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos.

The US weekend box office top 10 for September 11 – 13 is as follows:
1. (-) The Perfect Guy – $26,700,000
2. (-) The Visit – $25,690,000
3. (1) War Room – $7,400,000
4. (3) A Walk in the Woods – $4,620,099
5. (5) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $4,150,000
6. (2) Straight Outta Compton – $4,090,000
7. (6) No Escape – $2,879,000
8. (4) The Transporter Refueled – $2,700,000
9. (-) 90 Minutes in Heaven – $2,160,911
10. (9) Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos – $1,900,000

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Alex Kendrick’s War Room has knocked Straight Outta Compton off the top spot in the US box office, taking $9.3m.

The NWA biopic dropped to number two with $8.8m after spending two weeks at number one.

Elsewhere, the Bill Bryson biopic A Walk in the Woods debuts at number three taking $8.4m and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation drops one place to number four with $7.15m.

The Transporter Refueled opens at number five, taking $7.13m with No Escape dropping two places to number six.

Number seven is taken by Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with $3.5m, new release Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos is at number eight with $3.4m and thriller sequel Sinister 2 drops four taking $3.3m.

Rounding off this week’s top 10 is Disney’s emotional rollercoaster Inside Out, which climbs up from number 19, taking $3.1m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for September 4 – 6 is as follows:
1. (2) War Room – $9,350,000
2. (1) Straight Outta Compton – $8,850,000
3. (-) A Walk in the Woods – $8,400,000
4. (3) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $7,150,000
5. (-) The Transporter Refueled – $7,130,000
6. (4) No Escape – $5,445,000
7. (6) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – $3,445,000
8. (-) Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos – $3,400,000
9. (5) Sinister 2 – $3,377,000
10. (19) Inside Out – $3,146,000

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Mad Max: Fury Road.’ ‘San Andreas’ completes the top three.

Thousands of movies are being removed from Netflix in the US after the streaming service decided not to renew a deal with distributor Epix.

Movies from the Hunger Games and Transformers series are just some of the blockbuster titles to be dropped from the service, which will now focus more on original content.

The films will disappear from the service when the $1bn deal between Netflix and Epix expires later this month.

Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos wrote: “While many of these movies are popular, they are also widely available on cable and other subscription platforms at the same time as they are on Netflix and subject to the same drawn out licensing periods.”

Following the end of the Netflix deal, the Epix catalogue will be picked up by Hulu.

“Our subscribers have been asking us for more, and more recent, big movies,” Hulu said in a statement.

“We listened. Through this new deal with Epix, we are proud to now be able to offer a huge selection of the biggest blockbusters and premium films.”

Elsewhere, Netflix recently added a load of exclusive projects aimed at ‘tweens’, including films from popular YouTubers.

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Award-winning film director Wes Craven has died at the age of 76.

The creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Sunday (August 30) after battling brain cancer.

Craven was particularly known for his work on horror and slasher films having made his directorial debut in 1972 with The Last House on the Left.

Over the course of his decades-spanning career, Craven redefined the horror genre with his work on such films as Nightmare on Elm Street, Swamp Thing and the wildly popular Scream series, which later developed into a franchise consisting of several movies and a TV spinoff series for which Craven also served as an executive producer.

In addition to a highly-successful film career Craven was also a published author having released his novel Fountain Society in 1999.

More recently, the director had collaborated with 30 Days of Night co-creator Steve Niles on his first comic Coming of Rage that was released late last year and was working with producer Arnold Rifkin’s Cheyenne Enterprises and Liquid Comics on adapting the comic into a television series.

Craven is survived by his wife, producer and frequent collaborator Iya Labunka.

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Straight Outta Compton has stayed at number one in the US box office following a quiet weekend.

The NWA biopic took $13.2m to see off competition from Alex Kendrick’s War Room, which is new in at two with $11m.

Elsewhere, Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation is down to three with $8.3m, just ahead of new entry No Escape, which is at four.

Horror sequel Sinister 2 is at five with $4.6m and Guy Ritchie’s The Man From UNCLE is at six with $4.4m.

Hitman: Agent 47 is at seven, while The Gift is at eight with $3.1m.

Finally, Jurassic World is at nine with $3.1m and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man rounds out the top ten with $3m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for is as follows:
1. (1) Straight Outta Compton – $13,240,000
2. (-) War Room – $11,000,000
3. (2) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $8,300,000
4. (-) No Escape – $8,288,000
5. (3) Sinister 2 – $4,650,000
6. (5) The Man From UNCLE – $4,410,000
7. (4) Hitman: Agent 47 – $3,850,000
8. (7) The Gift – $3,134,000
9. (-) Jurassic World – $3,120,000
10. (8) Ant-Man – $3,054,000

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Straight Outta Compton spends a second week at the top of the US box office.

The NWA biopic took $26.7m, keeping Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation at number two with $11.7m.

New releases Sinister 2 and Hitman: Agent 47 debut at number three and four, with takings of $10.6m and $8.2m respectively.

Guy Ritchie’s The Man From UNCLE drops to five, while American Ultra debuts at six with $5.5m.

The Gift falls to seven, as Ant-Man drops to eight and Minions is at number nine.

Fantastic Four rounds out the top ten with takings of £3.6m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for August 21 – 23 is as follows:
1. (1) Straight Outta Compton – $26,760,000
2. (2) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $11,700,000
3. (-) Sinister 2 – $10,633,000
4. (-) Hitman: Agent 47 – $8,200,000
5. (3) The Man From UNCLE – $7,420,000
6. (-) American Ultra – $5,500,000
7. (5) The Gift – $4,300,000
8. (6) Ant-Man – $4,088,000
9. (8) Minions – $3,710,000
10. (4) Fantastic Four – $3,650,000

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