Top Gun: Maverick Has Now Been in the U.S. Top 10 for 4 Full Months
With a $1.23 million gross this weekend, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick lands in the domestic Top 10 for its fourth full month running.
As reported by Screenrant, the sequel to the original 1986 hit Top Gun hit theaters over Memorial Day weekend earlier this year, on May 27.
The film sees Tom Cruise returning as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a hotshot pilot who must teach a new crop of young pilots how to accomplish a seemingly impossible mission.
This is complicated by the fact that one of the students – Miles Teller’s Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw – is the son of Maverick’s former compatriot Goose, who was killed in the original film.
The cast also includes Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, and Val Kilmer returning as Iceman.
Although the film was expected to be a success, it would have been more or less impossible to predict how successful Top Gun: Maverick turned out to be.
The film wowed with a domestic opening of $126.7 million before soaring to even greater heights with a domestic total $713.5 million, making it the fifth-highest-grossing domestic film of all time.
Its worldwide gross has now reached a whopping total of $1.48 billion, and it continues to make money at the box office despite now being available on VOD.
In fact, it hardly seems to have slowed down, considering the fact that it reclaimed #1 at the Labor Day weekend box office, the exact same weekend that it took #1 across every major digital platform.
