“Top Gun: Maverick” reaches $ 1 billion, surpassing the 2022 box office

Tom Cruise has finally joined the billionaire movie club. “Top Gun: Maverick” this weekend became the first title starring the star to gross more than $ 1 billion at the worldwide box office.

The follow-up to “Top Gun” (1986) achieved this milestone by closing this Sunday (26/6) with an estimated total of US $ 521.7 million in the US and Canada and US $ 484.7 million overseas. . Thus, its global turnover reached $ 1.006 billion.

So far, Tom Cruise’s biggest worldwide hit has been “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” which grossed $ 791 million in 2018.

In the context of the study, the numbers are even more staggering. Considering the entire Paramount catalog, “Top Gun: Maverick” grossed only less than “Titanic” ($ 659.3 million) at the North American box office. But “Titanic” was a co-production with 20th Century Fox.

Additionally, the film broke studio box office records in 15 countries, including the UK, Australia, France and Brazil.

The Paramount production also became the second Hollywood release to exceed $ 500 million nationwide since the start of the pandemic, second only to “Spider-Man: No Homecoming,” which reached $ 804.7 million. in North America. And the second to hit $ 1 billion in that period worldwide, even behind the movie “Spider-Man” (a staggering $ 1.9 billion).

With this performance, the work of director Joseph Kosinski took “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” to the top of the national and global box office in 2022.

As of last week, Marvel production was topping both charts, but its revenue stalled with Friday’s (24/7) streaming launch, coming in at $ 409 million nationwide and $ 947 million at. global level.

According to Paramount, 16% of the “Top Gun: Maverick” audience would have seen the film more than once in theaters, while 4% returned to see it four or more times.

Source: Terra

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