Top Gun: Maverick secures second national box office victory of the weekend with $ 86 million in ticket sales, making it one of the top 10 box office weekends in national box office history .
As reported by Variety, Top Gun: Maverick has now shot up to $ 291 million in North America and has officially become the highest grossing Tom Cruise movie ever at the national box office. In addition, the film was only down 32% from its $ 160 million release weekend and has now seen, according to Comscore, the “smallest fall of the second weekend for a film that premiered at $ 100 million or more. “
By comparison, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were down 67% on their second weekends and The Batman was down 50%.
Internationally, Top Gun: Maverick has surpassed $ 257 million and has done its part to help the film reach $ 548 million worldwide.
Maverick had little competition, but David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future had a limited release and grossed $ 1.1 million from 773 national theaters. Maverick, meanwhile, performed in 4,751 rooms.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ranked second with $ 9.3 million nationally, bringing its overall number to $ 909.4 million worldwide. The Bob’s Burgers Movie returned to third place with $ 4.5 million, The Bad Guys came in fourth with $ 3.3 million, and Downton Abbey: A New Era completed the top five with $ 3 million.
For more information, be sure to check out our review of Top Gun: Maverick and our end-of-film narrator.
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