Production budget: $34,000,000 Worldwide gross: $339,422,634 Profit: 998% The Young Adult market is currently a very hot ticket in Hollywood. Mockingjay - Part 1 may have essentially been the longest, most expensive trailer in the history of cinema and disappointed some viewers as a result, but over $600 million and counting at the box office speaks for itself. Divergent also made its bow this year and, while never threatening to reach Hunger Games levels of domination, did enough business to greenlight the Insurgent sequel that will premiere in a few months time. Another adaptation of a YA novel also debuted this year: based on James Dashners 2009 novel, The Maze Runner is set in a (surprise surprise) dystopian world where teenagers awake to find themselves trapped in an intricate maze. With no recollection of how they ended up there but numerous perils to overcome should they wish to be free, their uneasy, makeshift society must work together to find a way out before it's too late. Like Divergent before it, The Maze Runner may cast envious eyes at the prodigious pull of The Hunger Games, but it was certainly a success - much more so than some might realise. In fact, its overall gross of over $339 million off the back of a $34 million production budget means it made ten times as much as it cost.
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