How Much Did Top Gun: Maverick Cost To Make (& What Box Office It Needs)
Here's how much Top Gun: Maverick cost to make and what it needs to earn to be considered a box office success. After a plethora of delays (many of which were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic), the long-awaited sequel to 1980s classic Top Gun is finally ready for its premiere. The film sees Tom Cruise reprise his iconic role of Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, who takes a new generation of Navy pilots under his wing. He's surrounded by a star-studded ensemble that includes Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, and Glen Powell.
As is par for the course with Cruise's tentpoles, a key component of the Top: Gun Maverick marketing campaign is highlighting how much of the spectacular action sequences were filmed practically. A number of behind-the-scenes interviews and videos have discussed the intense stunt training the Top Gun: Maverick cast went through in order to make the dogfights look as authentic as possible onscreen. That commitment makes the sequel a must-see event on the big screen this summer movie season, and Paramount is hoping the movie strikes a chord with audiences so it can turn a profit.
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Top Gun: Maverick's reported production budget is $152 million. That figure is in line with the last handful of Mission: Impossible movies. Both Mission: Impossible III and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation were budgeted at $150 million. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol cost $145 million to make. Mission: Impossible — Fallout had a $178 million budget. Among other recent blockbusters, Top Gun: Maverick is in the ballpark of the MCU's Shang-Chi, which cost between $150-200 million.
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