TopGunMaverick opens with $150M at the box office, making it the first film in Tom Cruise's career to open with over $100M. Wow!
Top Gun: Maverick is the first Tom Cruise movie in domestic box office history to open with over $100 million. Cruise, whose career began in 1981 with Endless Love, is one of the most internationally bankable stars still working today. The iconic actor is the lead of the increasingly stunt-driven and continually profitable Mission: Impossible franchise, but he has also held major roles in iconic standalone projects like Risky Business, Jerry Maguire, and Born on the Fourth of July.
Although Cruise's 1986 hit Top Gun, in which he played hotshot fighter pilot Maverick, wasn't meant to be a franchise-starter, this weekend has changed that fact considerably. The decades-later sequel Top Gun: Maverick hit theaters on May 27, 2022, following a delay of several years caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forcing theaters to close in early 2020.
Top Gun: Maverick blows the original Top Gun's opening weekend out of the water, but that is also due to the fact that the original film was more of a slow burn hit. That film opened at a paltry $8 million which, adjusted for inflation, comes out to roughly $21 million.
Now, the sequel to the pilot flick that could is competing in the big leagues with the comic book IPs that have conquered the pandemic-era marketplace. This incredible result for Top Gun: Maverick spells good news for Cruise's upcoming blockbuster films. If this is the kind of opening weekend the star can pull for a sequel to a film that is almost 40 years old, his next Mission: Impossible outing, which is coming next year, is likely to do gangbusters as well.
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