Top Gun: Maverick is setting the Box Office on fire! With its record-breaking performance at home and abroad. The film comes decades after the original and has been loved and appreciated by fans and critics alike. Top Gun 2 has a stellar star cast and jaw-dropping visuals, which explains the amazing business it has done at the Box Office.
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Top Gun: Maverick Is Doing Amazing Business
Box office analyst Gitesh Pandya shared statistics about the film’s performance on Twitter. The Tom Cruise film has made $44 million at the domestic box office in its fourth weekend in theaters. Only three other films have crossed the $40 million dollar figure in their fourth weekend in theaters. These are Avatar ($50.3 million), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (42.4 million), and Marvel Studios’ Black Panther ($40.8 million).
Biggest 4th wknds of all-time:
$50.3M #Avatar
$44.0M #TopGunMaverick
$42.4M #StarWars TFA
$40.8M #BlackPanther
$36.7M #Avengers
$32.8M #SpiderManNoWayHome
$30.0M #AvengersEndgame
$29.5M #AvengersInfinityWar#TopGun #boxoffice #TomCruise— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) June 19, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick also leaves behind several top-notch Marvel Cinematic Universe films when it comes to the fourth-weekend collection. It beats Avengers ($36.7 million), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($32.8 million), Avengers: Endgame ($30.0 million), and Avengers: Infinity War ($29.5 million).
Turbo-charged 4th wknd for #TopGunMaverick with amazing $44M slipping a ridiculously low 15%! SUN estimated to rise above SAT thx to #FathersDay. 2nd biggest 4th Wknd of all-time behind only $50.3M of #Avatar in 2010. Domestic #boxoffice cume shoots up to $466.2M thru today.
— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) June 19, 2022
The film has smashed several records. It is the film with the highest opening in North America of Tom Cruise, the highest-grossing film in the US leaving behind Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness. With a global collection standing around $783.8 million, it looks well poised to breach the 1 billion dollar mark soon.
Top Gun 2: Cast and Other Details
Top Gun: Maverick is now running in theaters. The film stars Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, and Jon Hamm among others. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, it is the sequel to the 1986 film, Top Gun.
