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Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, is seeing a second successful weekend after a massive launch. The sequel has thus far earned $86 million, a drop by 32%–the smallest decline for a movie opening at $100 million ever.
It has already earned an estimated $291.6 million in North American and $548.6 million globally according to Paramount. Overseas, it’s already earned another $81.7 million, holding strong and continuing to see amazing numbers.
On Saturday, Top Gun: Maverick became Tom Cruise’s top-grossing film domestically, breaking past the first Top Gun ($180.3 million) and the Mission: Impossible films, including Mission Impossible — Fallout ($220.2 million).
Rotten Tomatoes has given the film a 97% and CinemaScore has given Top Gun: Maverick an A+, an impressively high rating. It opened on Memorial Day weekend, hitting $160.5 million during that time. It’s a record for the biggest opening over the holiday.
Maverick was initially supposed to release in theaters back in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it saw itself being pushed back. Maverick did not release on streaming services and instead the film was released when theaters reopened.
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Top Gun: Maverick did not release in China or Russia, which has impacted its potential earnings at the box office in comparison to recent Mission: Impossible titles, which did release in the two countries. However, Maverick has certainly seen a massive win for the summer box office.
The Top Gun: Maverick and its success is certainly a display of the eagerness of people to get back into theaters after a long time indoors.
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