{"id":66908,"date":"2022-09-05T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/top-gun-maverick-passes-black-panther-as-fifth-highest-grossing-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:59:04","slug":"top-gun-maverick-passes-black-panther-as-fifth-highest-grossing-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/top-gun-maverick-passes-black-panther-as-fifth-highest-grossing-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gun: Maverick Passes Black Panther as Fifth-Highest Grossing Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has crossed $700 million in North America, becoming one of six movies to ever surpass that milestone at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

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\tThe film returned to the top of box office charts over Labor Day weekend, adding $7.9 million between Friday and Monday and bringing ticket sales to $701 million. According to Paramount, \u201cMaverick\u201d is the only movie to ever be No. 1 at the domestic box office for both Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays. <\/p>\n

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\tAfter 15 weeks of release, the sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1986 blockbuster has overtaken Marvel’s behemoth \u201cBlack Panther\u201d ($700.4 million) as the fifth-highest grossing movie in domestic box office history. Impressively, the \u201cTop Gun\u201d follow-up has long flown past \u201cBlack Panther\u201d internationally and globally. Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell’s latest mission has racked up $740 million overseas and $1.44 billion worldwide, while T’Challa’s super-heroic adventure tapped out with $674 million overseas and $1.347 billion worldwide. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cIt’s without a doubt, that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is a true cultural touchstone embodying the power of the cinematic experience,\u201d said Brian Robbins, president and CEO of Paramount Pictures. \u201cAs we celebrate this enormous achievement and the film’s massive impact, we want to extend our gratitude to Tom Cruise, our filmmakers and cast, Paramount’s marketing and distribution teams, and the legions of both new and longtime ‘Top Gun’ fans who keep turning out to enjoy this remarkable movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIn North America, the next highest-grossing movie is \u201cAvatar\u201d with $760 million (and its planned re-release in September will push those grosses even higher), so \u201cTop Gun: Maverick’s\u201d rapid ascent on box office charts looks to stop horse no. 5 \u2014 at least, for now.<\/p>\n

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\tGlobally, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d stands as the 12th-biggest movie, but it’s fast approaching 11th place, which currently belongs to Disney’s \u201cFrozen II\u201d with $1.450 billion.<\/p>\n

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\tFor the nation’s beleaguered theater owners, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has been the gift that keeps on giving. Unlike most of today’s blockbusters, which earn the bulk of their revenue during opening weekend, the follow-up to \u201cTop Gun\u201d has remained a powerful box office draw throughout the entire summer. It has been in the top five on domestic box office charts for 14 of its 15 weeks of release, a fact that underscores the film’s endurance as other tentpoles, like \u201cJurassic World Dominion\u201d and \u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d came and went in theaters. Plus, it’s still making money in theaters even though the film landed on home entertainment in late August.<\/p>\n

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\tTo Hollywood executives, the unexpected success of Paramount and Skydance’s action-packed sequel signals that audiences young and old will venture to cinemas for a movie that doesn’t involve superheroes, so long as there’s a compelling story to be told. (Of course, thrilling aerial sequences, performed by the entertainment industry’s resident daredevil, doesn’t hurt.) Given the 36 years that separated the original from Cruise’s return to the cockpit, the triumph of \u201cMaverick\u201d was far from a forgone conclusion. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has cemented plenty of box office records since Memorial Day weekend, when the film set a holiday record with its $160.5 million debut. It also became Cruise’s first movie to surpass $ 100 million in a single weekend, as well as his first to cross $ 1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. <\/p>\n

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\tCruise is getting well compensated for reviving the movie theater industry. By the time \u201cMaverick\u201d leaves theaters and ends up on Paramount Plus, the stunt extraordinaire is expected to pocket at least $100 million from ticket sales, his salary, home entertainment rentals, and streaming revenue.<\/p>\n

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\tJoseph Kosinski directed \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d which centers on the exploits of Cruise’s Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell as prepares a new group of aviators for a crucial strike mission and, in the process, feels the need for speed. He’s joined on-screen by Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n