Tom Cruise star Top Gun: Maverick has joined the billion dollar club at the box office, is the first film of the star to achieve the milestone, and the 50th Hollywood movie overall, not adjusted for inflation.
The film, sequel of first Top Gun 1986, directed by Joseph Kosinski, has passed the barrier after finishing Sunday with an estimated domestic domestic total of $521.7 million and $484.7 million overseas for a global cume just north of $1 billion. Top Gun: Maverick enjoyed a boost in its fifth weekend as being rereleased in the select Imax and premium large format screens. The Paramount and Skydance release grossed $30.5 million domestically and $44.5 million overseas for a weekend total.
The film is only the second Hollywood of the pandemic era to cross $1 billion behind Sony and Disney’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.89 billion). According to Paramount, more than 16 percent of Top Gun 2′s audience has seen the film more than once in theaters, while 4 percent have seen it four times or more.
The previous biggest film of Tom Cruise was Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which grossed $791 million in 2018, not adjusted for inflation.
The film also marks Paramount’s biggest live action movie in15 markets, including the U.K., Australia, France and Brazil, and studio’s highest grossing original release at the domestic box office behind Titanic.
