Venom 2 Deserves Some Credit For Top Gun 2 Box Office, Says Sony Boss
Sony executives think Venom: Let There Be Carnage and other films released by the studio deserve some credit for Top Gun: Maverick's box office success. Originally slated for release in May 2020, Top Gun: Maverick was delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It finally opened in theaters on May 27 and has been a runaway hit ever since. It's become the highest-grossing film of 2022, the highest-grossing film of Tom Cruise's career, and overtook Titanic's original box office total to become Paramount Pictures' most successful film of all time.Top Gun 2 has earned $1.22 billion worldwide to date.
It's an incredible box office story, particularly because just one year ago there was a question of if theatrical movie-going would ever return to pre-pandemic highs. 2021 was a testing ground for movies returning to theaters and an attempt at keeping the theatrical experience alive. One of the surprise winners of 2021 was Sony Pictures, as in the final three months of the year they had a winning streak with Venom: Let There Be Carnage in October, Ghostbusters: Afterlife in November, and Spider-Man: No Way Home in December. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the highest-grossing film since theaters shut down in March 2020, with Top Gun: Maverick right behind it.
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Yet despite all the praise and attention Sony got for Spider-Man: No Way Home's incredible box office run, it appears that the studio's execs think they deserve more praise for the record-breaking run of Paramount's Top Gun: Maverick. While speaking with Vulture, Sony’s Motion Picture Group presidents Sanford Panitch and Josh Greenstein emphasize how they took a chance releasing films in 2021 while most
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