Is Top Gun: Maverick's Box Office Crown Going To Be Taken By... Minions?!
Top Gun: Maverick sports 2022's box office crown with its billion-dollar global haul, but Minions: The Rise of Gru is not too far behind it and may even snag its throne. Serving as a sequel to 1986's Top Gun, Joseph Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick marks the return of Tom Cruise's Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. With a high-stakes time-bound mission at its fore, the film is jam-packed with impressive aeronautic acrobatic sequences, nostalgic callbacks to the original, and a heartwarming redemptive story arc for the beloved Maverick. While allowing new characters and storylines to take the limelight, Top Gun: Maverick stays true to the legacy of the original and paves the way for future additions to the movie series.
Minions: The Rise of Gru's audience reviews and box office numbers have been no less impressive so far. Following Lightyear's subpar performance, Minions: The Rise of Gru has reinstated that there is still a theatrical market for animated movies. Although the film's success partially comes from an online meme trend called "The Gentleminions," its primary appeal lies in its bite-sized gimmicky yellow characters who tickle many a rib with their silly antics.
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Top Gun: Maverick remains a box office juggernaut and is only the second film since 2019's Spider-Man: No Way Home to cross the $1 billion global box office mark. While Minions: The Rise of Gru's is yet to reach that milestone, its early numbers show some promising prospects.The imposing receptions of both films beg some interesting questions: will Minions: The Rise of Gru sustain its growing popularity and ultimately lead 2022's box office? Or will it gradually lose momentum and fall behind
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