Top Gun: Maverick is the first Tom Cruise movie in domestic box office history to open with over $100 million. Cruise, whose career began in 1981 with Endless Love, is one of the most internationally bankable stars still working today. The iconic actor is the lead of the increasingly stunt-driven and continually profitable Mission: Impossible franchise, but he has also held major roles in iconic standalone projects like Risky Business, Jerry Maguire, and Born on the Fourth of July.
Although Cruise's 1986 hit Top Gun, in which he played hotshot fighter pilot Maverick, wasn't meant to be a franchise-starter, this weekend has changed that fact considerably. The decades-later sequel Top Gun: Maverick hit theaters on May 27, 2022, following a delay of several years caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forcing theaters to close in early 2020.
Top Gun: Maverick blows the original Top Gun's opening weekend out of the water, but that is also due to the fact that the original film was more of a slow burn hit. That film opened at a paltry $8 million which, adjusted for inflation, comes out to roughly $21 million.
Now, the sequel to the pilot flick that could is competing in the big leagues with the comic book IPs that have conquered the pandemic-era marketplace. This incredible result for Top Gun: Maverick spells good news for Cruise's upcoming blockbuster films. If this is the kind of opening weekend the star can pull for a sequel to a film that is almost 40 years old, his next Mission: Impossible outing, which is coming next year, is likely to do gangbusters as well.
glenpowell We saw Top Gun as kids. A whole pack of us went to see Top Gun: Maverick this weekend and were like kids again in the theater. LOVED IT.
He deserves every award out there TopGunMaverick is simply out of this world Acting is A+++ Cinematography is A+++ Musical score is A+++ Gonna watch it again tomorrow, it was the first time that i saw our biggest cinema fully packed on Sunday (had to sit at the back in corner)
Well deserved 🔥🔥🔥
So good, going to see it again in Imax next week. 😁 TopGunMaverick
Huge ticket prices are part of this. $17 where I am. Insane.
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DID BUNCH LOW BUDGET MOVIES. AFRICA DOING RED CARPET EVENTS AFRICA.MUMMY A FLOP STUDIOS NIGERIA LAST 5 MOVIES ALL GARBAGE NOW. COMBINED MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, MAVERICK, TOP GUN INTO ONE MOVIE HMMMM ALWAYS SAME TYPE MOVIES EXTRA EFFECTS ON BIG SCREEN NOT EMPRESSED
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Still surprised me that none of his Mission Impossible films made over 100 million on the first weekend
Just a amazing film..I was in the Navy in 1986… and this being so great…made it so awesome…Great Job….
It's a brilliant film.
DaynaRoselli congrats!
👏👏👏👏❤️topgun
59 years old he still looks hot
No Marvel No DC No Star Wars No FF !!!!!!!is Tom Cruise simply!!!!!!
Glad he’s finally getting some recognition
glenpowell Well deserved glenpowell
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