'Top Gun: Maverick' shatters several box office records in its second weekend, including one that had been in place for 18 years
The success of 'Top Gun: Maverick' seems to know no bounds as it continues to break records during its second weekend in theaters. And it is already Tom Cruise's highest-grossing film of all time in the United States with revenues of 291.6 million dollars, thus far exceeding the 220.15 achieved by 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout'.
Historic success of 'Top Gun: Maverick'
The film directed by Joseph Kosinski has reached that figure after adding an additional 86 million dollars during this weekend. That's a drop of just 32% from the previous film's earnings, making it the lowest percentage drop of all time for a movie that opens to more than $100 million in its opening week. Until now, the best mark was in the 33% that 'Shrek 2' did 18 years ago. It seems that last week it seemed little to him to beat another one that had been in force since 2007...
The success of 'Top Gun: Maverick' seems to know no bounds as it continues to break records during its second weekend in theaters. And it is already Tom Cruise's highest-grossing film of all time in the United States with revenues of 291.6 million dollars, thus far exceeding the 220.15 achieved by 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout'.
Historic success of 'Top Gun: Maverick'
The film directed by Joseph Kosinski has reached that figure after adding an additional 86 million dollars during this weekend. That's a drop of just 32% from the previous film's earnings, making it the lowest percentage drop of all time for a film that opens to more than $100 million in its opening week. Until now, the best mark was in the 33% that 'Shrek 2' did 18 years ago. It seems that last week it seemed little to him to beat another one that had been in force since 2007...
The big question now is to see how far 'Top Gun: Maverick' can go. It is clear that next week it will suffer before the premiere of 'Jurassic World: Dominion', but it is taken for granted that it will exceed the barrier of 400 million dollars at the North American box office, and the 500 does not seem impossible. Only 16 movies have done it so far.
In the international market it has already exceeded 200 million dollars, so this weekend it has exceeded 500 million worldwide. There it still remains to become the highest grossing film starring Cruise, an honor that belongs to 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' with 787 million. And to think that the actor initially didn't even want to do 'Top Gun: Maverick'...
