Top Gun: Maverick returns to theaters just in time for the holidays. Paramount is re-releasing the blockbuster on the big screen, including premium and Imax large formats, from December 2 to December 15.
The movie, which is already available to watch on home entertainment, hits Paramount+ on December 22nd.
The sequel to Tom Cruise’s action film Top Gun has already become a smash hit with $1.48 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing movie of the year by a landslide. The global dinosaur epic “Jurassic World Dominion,” the only other release of 2022 to pass the $1 billion mark, is a distant second with $1.001 billion.
In North America, “Maverick” is the fifth highest-grossing film in history with $716 million, as well as the highest-grossing film of the year. Globally, “Top Gun: Maverick” recently surpassed Disney’s “Frozen II” ($1.450 billion) as the 11th biggest movie of all time.
“Top Gun: Maverick epitomizes the magic of the cinema experience, and we wanted to give fans the opportunity once again to enjoy this cinematic spectacle as it was meant to be seen,” said Chris Aronson, Paramount’s President of Domestic Distribution. “It seems like the perfect time to bring Top Gun: Maverick back to cinemas so that audiences everywhere can experience just how unique this movie is once again.”
For theater owners, the timing is right because they are in dire need of content. Thanksgiving was a bust and other than “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” it wasn’t until “Avatar: The Way of Water” opening on Dec. 16 that a great movie came to fruition. While the summer season brought several hits like Maverick, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” and “Thor: Love and Thunder,” those weren’t enough to make up for the fact that studios released 38% fewer movies than they once did. before the epidemic. As a result, its box office total is down 33% from 2019, according to Comscore. In short, exhibitors need more movies to show — and stats.
Top Gun: Maverick, which opened in May, was the box office gift that keeps on giving. According to Paramount, it’s the only film ever to be #1 at the domestic box office for both Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend. It also marked the studio’s highest-grossing domestic release ever.
The film set several records for Cruise, marking his first film to pass $100 million in a single weekend, as well as his first to pass $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
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