Top Gun: Maverick has become the only pandemic-era Hollywood film to surpass $ 900 million at the box office worldwide at the latest Paramount and Skydance milestone.
The film by director Joseph Kosinski reached its peak on Monday after ending the day with a national total of $ 474.8 million and $ 427.1 million abroad, for a global rise of 901.9 millions of dollars.
Marvel and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has grossed nearly $ 950 million worldwide, while Sony and Disney’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has nearly $ 1.9 billion worldwide.
According to Paramount, more than 16 percent of the Top Gun 2 audience has seen the film more than once in theaters, while 4 percent have seen it four or more times.
Last week, Top Gun: Maverick approved the Mission: Impossible – Fallout of 2018, which earned $ 791 million worldwide, to become the largest Cruise entry of all time at the world box office, without adjust inflation.
Top Gun: Maverick is also Paramount’s largest live-action film in 15 markets, including the UK, Australia, France and Brazil, as well as the studio’s highest-grossing original box office release. national behind the Titanic.
Top Gun: Maverick has been driven by enviable word of mouth. Critics blessed the long-awaited sequel with a 96 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while viewers rewarded the film with a coveted A + CinemaScore. Box office sources say the only reason Top Gun: Maverick may not reach $ 1 billion is the absence of a release from China and Russia.
Top Gun: Maverick had already become Cruise’s highest grossing film nationwide when it went to War of the Worlds ($ 234.3 million at the national box office).
On Monday, the June holiday, Top Gun’s winning streak continued when it approved Disney and Pixar’s new Lightyear bid to take second place nationally with about $ 7.9 million.
Jurassic World Dominion ruled Juneteenth with an estimated $ 8.4 million, for an 11-day national account of nearly $ 260 million nationally and nearly $ 630 million worldwide.
Lightyear, which opened a low of $ 51 million over the weekend, took third place on Monday with $ 6.6 million, for a four-day national account of $ 57 million.