Will Top Gun: Maverick's Box Office Break The $1 Billion Barrier?
Top Gun: Maverick’s extraordinary success at the box office suggests that the Tom Cruise sequel will soar past $1 billion. The box office game has shifted considerably since the pandemic, where most films previously guaranteed to earn $1 billion fail to reach this goal. The highly successful Top Gun 2, on the other hand, hasn’t been limited by competition from superhero movies or theatrical fatigue, with the legacy sequel already beating The Batman and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to become the highest-grossing film at the domestic box office in 2022.
Premiering 36 years after the original 1986 Top Gun movie, Top Gun: Maverick brings back Tom Cruise in the title role as he trains a new generation of pilots for a high-stakes mission. They include Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of his late best friend and RIO, Goose. Top Gun: Maverick premiered on Memorial Day weekend 2022 with rave reviews from critics, performing better both critically and commercially than the original Top Gun. In only three weeks in theaters, Top Gun: Maverick smashed numerous box office records, including a few for star Tom Cruise as the biggest opening weekend and the highest-grossing film of his career.
Related: How Maverick's Box Office Compares to Top Gun 1 (Adjusted for Inflation)
As a sequel to a classic from 1986, Top Gun 2 wasn’t expected to be the frontrunner for 2022’s first film to cross $1 billion at the box office. Since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, only one movie has achieved this remarkable feat: Spider-Man: No Way Home, which premiered in December 2021. Now, as it continues to exceed expectations and climb at the box office, Top Gun: Maverick is on track to join the billion-dollar club.
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