Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” continues to soar at high altitudes, surpassing $900 million at the global box office.
With $901.8 million in the bank, the sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1986 action movie Top Gun is the second highest-grossing movie in the world after Disney’s Marvel adventure “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ($943 million). At this rate, Maverick is poised to surpass the crown in the coming weeks.
Even without playing in China or Russia, the billion-dollar mark appears to be within reach. It will be notable because only one Hollywood movie, Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” has crushed this particular benchmark in times of COVID.
Top Gun: Maverick grossed $474.7 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. Date.
According to Paramount, repeat customers have been fueling this momentum. By the end of the fourth week in North American cinemas, 16% of audiences had returned more than once and 4% had returned three or more times.
The action-packed tent pole was similarly popular overseas, grossing $427.1 million. “Top Gun: Maverick” is now the highest-grossing cruise movie in 23 markets, including the UK, Australia and Brazil.
After just 25 days on the big screen, Top Gun: Maverick also became Cruise’s biggest movie at the global box office, surpassing 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, previously the actor’s most successful film with $791.1 million worldwide. the scientist. At this rate, “Maverick” could become his first movie to cross $1 billion in global ticket sales.
Joseph Kosinski directed Top Gun: Maverick, which was well received by critics and audiences alike. In the nostalgic movie, Cruise Pete “Maverick” Mitchell returns to the cockpit for the first time in decades to train a new group of seductive pilots for a deadly mission. Miles Teller, Glenn Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in the first “Top Gun” movie, complete the cast.
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