Top Gun Maverick's Box Office is Way Different From 2022's Top Movies
Top Gun: Maverick is making a huge splash at the box office, and its success looks totally different from 2022's other top box office contenders. Thanks to a variety of factors in the Top Gun sequel's box office numbers, the newest Tom Cruise movie proves the market for theatrical movies may not have changed as much as everyone thought it did after the abysmal hit caused by the pandemic shutdown.
36 years in the making, Top Gun: Maverick brings back Tom Cruise and a number of other actors from the original 1986 Top Gun to tell the story of a much older Pete «Maverick» Mitchell toward the end of his career as a Naval aviator. The movie opened to the third biggest domestic box office debut in 2022 (fourth biggest if we count December 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home), and it was immediately apparent its box office success wouldn't follow the same trend as 2022's other box office hits.
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Tom Cruise hyping up Top Gun: Maverick as a sort of savior of cinema after a depressed post-COVID box office may have become a bit of a meme, but if the movie keeps performing the way it has at the box office, Cruise's hype may hold some merit. Of course, it'll take more than one movie for the entire box office to recover to anywhere near its pre-COVID levels, but movies like Top Gun: Maverick certainly don't hurt that objective and could inspire the production of more movies targeting similar audience behavior.
The only recent movies with a domestic box office opening weekend comparable to Top Gun: Maverick's $126 million opening weekend are Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($187 million), The Batman ($134 million), and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260
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