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The milestones keep rolling in. \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has collected $679 million in North America, enough to overtake Marvel’s \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d ($678 million) as the sixth-highest grossing movie in domestic box office history.<\/p>\n

It’s an especially impressive benchmark because 2018’s every-hero-but-the-kitchen-sink adventure \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d had a little help in building up anticipation. It served as part one (2019’s \u201cEndgame\u201d was part two) of Marvel’s epic culmination of more than 20 movies \u2014 most of which were box office juggernauts in their own right \u2014 over 10 years. Talk about hype.<\/p>\n

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Sure, \u201cMaverick\u201d had Tom Cruise, a box office hero in his own right. But moviegoers hadn’t felt the need for speed in more than 30 years; the sequel to 1986’s \u201cTop Gun\u201d was far from a guaranteed hit.<\/p>\n

Yet, thanks to stellar word-of-mouth and repeat customers, \u201cMaverick\u201d continues to defy the odds. And there’s a chance the movie will continue to fly higher on box office charts. Can the \u201cTop Gun\u201d follow-up take down 2018’s blockbuster \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and its $700.4 million tally to crack the top five domestic grossers of all-time?<\/p>\n

It would require a bit of endurance at this point, but it’s certainly not out of the question. \u201cTop Gun 2\u201d is likely to continue selling tickets because the film does not have a ton of competition on the horizon. It’ll be fairly desolate at the box office until November, when \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d opens in theaters. Disney is likely to re-release the original superhero sensation in anticipation of the follow-up, which could propel \u201cBlack Panther’s\u201d grosses even higher. But \u201cMaverick\u201d is no stranger to overcoming the impossible.<\/p>\n