Top Gun Maverick surpasses Avengers: Infinity War as grosses in the US, close to the top 5
Top Gun Maverick surpasses Avengers
The impressive run of Top Gun: Maverick at the box office continues, with receipts in the USA that have practically surpassed those of Avengers: Infinity War, although the figure is not yet official, and which now bring it closer to the top 5 ever in the domestic market in the United States.The Hollywood Reporter reported that Top Gun: Maverick received a further acceleration this past weekend, thanks to the new expansion of distribution to further theaters, which brought the film with Tom Cruise towards the target of 700 million dollars for the US domestic market, while globally it is around 1.35 billion dollars.
This, as far as the US market is concerned, represents a remarkable goal: that Top Gun Maverick has practically surpassed a colossus like Avengers: Infinity War, having previously surpassed the first The Avengers and Titanic as well.
Top Gun: Maverick, a scene from the film If the figure were officially confirmed, it would also mean that the film is likely to soon surpass even Black Panther, which stopped at $ 700,059,566.
Considering the thrust that the film directed by Joseph Kosinski still enjoys, it is almost certain that it is destined to surpass even Black Panther, which would already place it in the fifth position of the historical ranking of cinema in the USA, after Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($ 936 million), Avengers: Endgame ($ 858.3 million), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($ 804.7 million) and Avatar ($ 760 million). All this always with regard to the US domestic market, while at the global level the situation is decidedly different, considering also Infinity War it is still very far away, with over 2 billion dollars collected.
However, it should also be noted how these results were achieved by Top Gun: Maverick despite a much less pushed marketing than other films present in the global ranking of the US box office, practically incomparable to the commercial empire they can count on. Marvel productions, for example.
Last June we saw that Top Gun: Maverick had reached the billion dollar mark, representing the first film with Tom Cruise to reach that milestone. On the video game front, the film was honored by a film-focused expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which you can learn more about in our dedicated special.
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Top Gun: Maverick surpasses Titanic seventh-biggest film ever US box office grossing $662m sales
Paramount's Top Gun: Maverick supplanted Titanic as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office this weekend having now earned $662 million in ticket sales.
The sequel, now in its eleventh week of release, added $7 million to its total and beats James Cameron's 1997 tragedy by $3 million, having raked in $659 million.
While Titanic is now in eighth place, Top Gun is now creeping up on sixth placed Avengers: Infinity War at $678 million and Black Panther with box office receipts of $700 million.
Top Gun: Maverick' has sunk Titanic as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales
For Paramount Pictures, Top Gun also overtakes Titanic as the studio's biggest film in its 110-year history. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are pictured
Films that have grossed even more including Avatar, Spiderman: No Way Home, Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Force Awakens will likely not be surpassed, however it could well mean Top Gun: Maverick makes it into fifth place.
Top Gun is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office.
Internationally, it holds the number three spot for the studio's highest-grossing titles ever.
Meanwhile, in 28 overseas markets — including France, Australia, and the UK — the flick is the biggest Paramount live action movie ever.
Top Gun is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office
Notably, this is the first film in Tom Cruise's decades-long career to earn $1 billion.
The film was originally supposed to be released in June 2020, but Paramount held off on the release until more fans were able to return following the pandemic lockdowns.
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Cruise's Top Gun franchise took the global film market by storm, both in 1986 and 2022, but it's not all for the big screen - as the actor has been a real-life licensed pilot since 1994.
And while the jets were flown by someone else in the original flick, it was the actor in the driving seat for the recent sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.
The cast of the film underwent months of flying training in preparation for the role, as they took to the sky themselves for the scenes.
While Tom wasn't allowed to fly an actual F-18 jet, he was the pilot of other planes during the film - and even had to figure out his own camera shots while in the plane, with no space for a director inside.
The Tinseltown mainstay is looking to revisit the box office heights with a pair of high-profile sequels he's working on, as he reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One and Part Two.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One is tentatively slated to hit theaters next July,
The domestic box office has experienced an impressive rebound in recent months; with a resurgence fueled by hits such as Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion.
The bad news for theaters is that Brad Pitt's movie this weekend, Bullet Train. is the last big-budget, major studio film this summer
The bad news for theaters is that Brad Pitt's movie this weekend, Bullet Train, is the last big-budget, major studio film this summer and there's about to be a veritable desert when it comes to populist fare.
Studio executives and theater owners privately say that there won't be another blockbuster until Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens in mid-November.
That's a long time to wait, particularly for an exhibition industry that's still trying to shake off the lingering impact of COVID closures and reduced attendance.
