Top Gun: Maverick is one of the movies of the year. The sequel to Top Gun (Idols of the air) , again with Tom Cruise as Pete Mitchell , sweeps the box office. Directed by Joseph Kosinski , the film has grossed more than $ 548 million worldwide and his performance on billboards has earned Cruise four records .
First of all, Top Gun: Maverick has become the actor’s best movie opening ever. The film grossed more than $160 million upon its arrival in theaters in the United States, but that number also makes the sequel the biggest opening for a film during the weekend of Memorial Day , the holiday celebrated in the United States in the one that remembers the soldiers who died during their service. Until now, the record belonged to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007), which grossed over $153 million in its North American release.
After a couple of weeks at the box office, Top Gun: Maverick has already grossed over $291 million in the US, making the film Cruise’s highest grossing in North America . To date, the title of the actor that had raised the most money in the country was War of the Worlds (2005), which earned more than 234 million dollars.
Finally, during its second week in theaters, Top Gun: Maverick has only dropped 32% at the box office in North America. This figure is the lowest for a film that has exceeded 100 million dollars or more.
In summary, Top Gun: Maverick has achieved in the United States: being the highest grossing opening of a film by Cruise, being the highest grossing opening of a film released during Memorial Day, being the highest grossing Cruise film and being the film with a lower box office drop in its second week in theaters. Almost nothing.
We will have to wait to see what happens as the weeks go by, but it seems that the fate of Top Gun: Maverick is quite positive. For now, the highest grossing film of the year worldwide is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Marvel ‘s sorcerer sequel , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen and directed by Sam Raimi , has grossed more than $909 million worldwide. The film has dethroned The Batman , the Dark Knight film with Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne , which has grossed more than$770 million worldwide and is available now on HBO Max . Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is coming to Disney+ on June 22 .
2022 is a year in which there are a few other films with great potential to meet these figures. Jurassic World: Dominion opens on June 9 , Thor: Love and Thunder hits theaters on July 8, and Avatar: The Sense of Water will land on December 16 . Who will be the queen of the year?
Top Gun: Maverick is set three decades after the events of Top Gun . Pete Mitchell returns to the TOPGUN academy as an instructor and there he will meet a new generation of pilots and Goose ‘s son , his deceased partner in the first installment. Miles Teller , Jennifer Connelly , Monica Barbaro , Val Kilmer , Jon Hamm , and Glen Powell round out the main cast.
