The biggest opening weekend of all time is being made by another superhero movie: Avengers: Endgame with $ 357 million three years ago.
The Hollywood Reporter described Maverick’s opening as “a pivotal moment for the box office to recover, which has so far been fueled largely by the superhero fare supported by men aged 18 to 34.”
Tom Cruise at the British premiere of Top Gun: Maverick in London. Credit: Eamonn M. McCormack / Getty Images
More than 70% of the American Top Gun: Maverick audience was over 25, including 55% over 35.
And for a movie that seemed designed to appeal to older men who felt the need for more speed, 42% of ticket buyers were women.
Although 36 years have passed between Top Gun and Maverick, Paramount executives will be interested in developing another sequel once Cruise has finished shooting both the upcoming Mission: Impossible and a planned film that will take it into space in collaboration with SpaceX by Elon Musk.
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Although it is about to turn 60, Cruise would certainly like to star and produce with the right story, although there is potential to follow the “rooster” of Miles Teller Bradshaw and the new generation of Top Gun pilots in a another mission.
Glen Powell, who plays Hangman in Maverick, has said that the question of whether there would be more Top Gun movies depended on Cruise.
“His kind of motto at the beginning of this thing is, if you can’t get past the previous movies, there’s no reason to do that,” he told Indiewire. “There’s no reason to add another film to the filmography of the world if it doesn’t contribute to or surpass the original.”
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Deadline noted that Maverick played with particular strength in American cities as “of the heart” as San Antonio, Nashville, Knoxville, Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City.
“We haven’t seen a film that speaks to the heart like this from Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. to this audience and military films such as Top Gun 2 “.
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