Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick Takes Down The Avengers' Box Office Record

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Just like its namesake protagonist, Top Gun: Maverick just keeps shattering one record after the other as Paramount Pictures' biggest film ever has now surpassed Marvel Studios'The Avengers on the list of the highest-grossing films ever in the United States, now setting its sights on a few other cinematic masterpieces.

Top Gun: Maverick came out almost two months ago, yet its theatrical run looks nowhere near its end as the movie revenue total now amounts to $1.24 billion worldwide, as of this writing, propelling it all the way to the nineteenth spot of all-time highest-grossing films, ranking just a few hundred million below The Avengers and Age of Ultron. Considering Top Gun: Maverick's complicated relationship with Chinese investors, and thus the subsequent edits that rendered the final cut of the film forbidden for release in China, that feat seems all the more impressive.

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As far as the U.S. goes, after reaching domestic box earnings of $623.8M, Top Gun: Maverick edges past 2012’s The Avengers' $623.3M total. With this, Top Gun: Maverick has become the ninth-highest grossing film ever to be released in the country. After clearing that milestone, Maverick now has Jurassic World ($653) and Titanic ($659m) in his sights, with every other film above it not named Avatar being either a recent Marvel or Star Wars entry.

To boost Top Gun: Maverick's chances, it’s speculated the movie could still be in theaters for a few extra weeks. This would give it the kind of long screening period Spider-Man: No Way Home recently had to attain its impressive financial results. The stellar box office performance for Top Gun definitely validates Tom Cruise's conviction for the film to only be