Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, grossed $ 690 million outside the United States.
The success of Top Gun: Maverick continues to surprise locals and beyond. The sequel to the action classic has already surpassed Titanic as the seventh highest-grossing film in history in the United States: accumulates 662 million dollars on ticket sales.
titanic was installed as one of the most successful stories in film history, raising a monumental $ 600.7 million in 1997 – the year of its release – and another 659 million (without inflation adjustments) with subsequent reissues. .
Top Gun: Maverick even exceeded titanic as Paramount’s highest-grossing studio film in its 110-year history.
Tom Cruise at the mega launch of the film in England. Reuters.
However, the epic of the transatlantic disaster that resulted Giacomo Cameron continues to be the pinnacle of Tom Cruise’s hunting adventure outside of North America, with $ 1.5 billion at the international box office and $ 2.2 billion worldwide.
A surprising fact of Top Gun: Maverick is that it has sold a similar number of tickets both in the United States and abroad: to those 662 million local dollars, 690 million must be added to the international account.
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Although it hasn’t screened in cinemas in China or Russia, the 1986 blockbuster has grossed $ 1.352 billion worldwide to date. It is the 13th highest-grossing film in the world rankings..
Depending on the site Varietythanks to the aforementioned – and coveted today – word of mouth and to the many people who have seen it more than once, Top Gun: Maverick is attracting audiences in a way that would have been monumental even before the Covid-19 pandemic.
The numbers mark it. After passing titanic, it is close to reach Avengers: Infinity Warthe tank of the Marvel superheroes which is currently the sixth highest-grossing US release in history ($ 678 million).
Regardless of whether it gets past it or not, the list of top five national premieres is at the top Black Panther ($ 700 million), Avatar ($ 760 million), Spider-Man: There is no way to go home ($ 804 million), Avengers: End of the game ($ 853 million) e Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($ 936 million).
An unstoppable phenomenon at the box office
Tom Cruise while filming “Top Gun Maverick”.
From Top Gun: Maverick Debuting in May and breaking a new record on Memorial Day opening weekend with $ 160.5 million, the film remained an unstoppable phenomenon at the box office.
Ten consecutive weeks have gone by without falling from the top five in the weekend box office charts. Also, “Nonconformist” It is the first Cruise film to exceed $ 100 million in a single weekend. and the first to hit $ 1 billion at the worldwide box office.
The long-awaited sequel to this action classic was directed by Joseph Kosinski and picks up decades after the original and follows Tom Cruise’s character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains a group of young aviators for a dangerous mission.
The cast includes Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in the first “Top Gun”.
Source: Clarin