Why Top Gun 2 Made $1 Billion In 2022 (When Marvel & DC Couldn't)
Top Gun: Maverick has recently crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, becoming the first film of 2022 to do so and beating both Marvel and DC in that respect. The film is the long-awaited sequel to 1986's Top Gun and sees Tom Cruise return to the cockpit as Pete «Maverick» Mitchell. With no other film crossing this milestone so far in 2022, it is worth exploring how it managed to achieve such a feat.
As mentioned, neither Marvel nor DC have managed to have a film cross this milestone as of yet in 2022. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the most recent superhero movie to cross $1 billion worldwide, largely due to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, though that film was released in December 2021. In 2022 thus far, Marvel Studios have released Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which came close to $1 billion yet has failed to cross the threshold thus far. Meanwhile, Sony released Morbius, another property based on a Marvel character, which bombed at the box office following two separate releases.
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DC also released The Batman so far in 2022, another film that failed to reach Maverick's milestone. Given how superhero movies, be it from Marvel or DC, have often reigned supreme in the end-of-year totals for the worldwide box office in the last two decades, it comes as a surprise that Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise's first billion-dollar movie, is currently holding off two of the main tentpole films from the superhero cinema behemoths. However, the reasons as to why this is the case make sense, with a lot of different factors being in Top Gun: Maverick's favor, and others going against Marvel's and DC's releases in 2022 thus far.
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