{"id":33616,"date":"2022-06-02T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:51:13","slug":"tom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Has Message For Fans After ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Scores ‘Historic Opening Weekend’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Cruise sent a message to fans after his long-awaited sequel \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d scored an \u201chistoric opening weekend\u201d not only for the actor, but in the history of Memorial Day box office openings as well.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old actor’s famed character Lieutenant Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell makes a return to the big screen after his debut in the 1986 action-packed film \u201cTop Gun,\u201d and it has proven to be a career changer for the \u201cMission Impossible “star. The sequel has landed the actor his biggest box-office opening of his career as the movie brought in more than $ 160 million over the four-day release of the film, Deadline reported in a piece published Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In response, Cruise tweeted<\/a> Tuesday, “Thank you to everyone who saw #TopGun: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend.”<\/p>\n

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Thank you to everyone who saw #TopGun<\/a>: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend.<\/p>\n

– Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The outlet noted that through Tuesday, the movie has taken in $ 176.3 million. The highly-anticipated sequel will easily beat the original films domestic lifetime total of $ 180.258 million.<\/p>\n

To put that into context, the \u201cJack Reacher\u201d star’s prior largest domestic box office opening numbers were: $ 64.9 million in 2005 for \u201cWar of the Worlds,\u201d followed by \u201cMission: Impossible – Fallout\u201d in 2018, which grossed $ 61.2 million opening weekend, according to Comscore and not adjusted for inflation, as The Daily Wire reported. The rest of Cruise’s films have had openings of less than $ 60 million, with him earning $ 4.2 billion at the domestic box office since 1981, CNBC noted.<\/p>\n

In the sequel, Cruise’s character \u201cPete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him\u201d before he is called back to \u201cTop Gun,\u201d according to IMDb.<\/p>\n

And to think it almost didn’t happen. The movie’s director Joseph Kosinski shared that Cruise \u201creally didn’t want to make\u201d a sequel, but in 30 minutes, he changed his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I read the script, I had some ideas, and Jerry [Bruckheimer] liked those ideas, \u201dKosinski shared. “He said, ‘You know what, you gotta go pitch this to Tom directly.'”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe flew to Paris, where Tom was shooting ‘Mission: Impossible,’ we got about a half-hour of his time between setups,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didn’t realize when we were flying over. But when I got there, I found that Tom really didn’t want to make another ‘Top Gun.’ “<\/p>\n

After his pitch, he said Cruise immediately called the head of Paramount Pictures and said, “We’re making another ‘Top Gun.'”<\/p>\n

Related: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Responds To Outcry, Replaces Taiwanese Flag On Tom Cruise’s Character’s Jacket<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n