Finally Tom Cruise is a 1 billion grossing star! And all it took for Tom Cruise to gain that worldwide 1 billion grossing box-office crown was a sequel to a 36 year old aviation action film: Top Gun. Top Gun : Maverick exceeded all its initial expectations and sealed the billion dollar deal in its fifth weekend, just under a month. The box-office phenomenon has also set a few landmarks for its production company by becoming the second highest grossing film of all time for Paramount Pictures.
As for now, Top Gun: Maverick grossed $521.7 million domestically and $484.7 million from international markets. What is surprising is the fact that Tom Cruise achieved this 1 billion landmark at the age of nearly 60, in his career spanning four decades of action blockbusters. After 6 Mission Impossible movies and multiple other action blockbusters, the actor’s come-back as Captain Maverick came as a one billion lucky charm. The actor who is hailed as the ‘last movie-star’ out-passed his previous most successful film ‘Mission: Impossible -Fallout’ that made only $791.1 million worldwide, 4 years later with Top Gun: Maverick.
Top Gun: Maverick is the biggest grosser and biggest domestic (American subcontinent) grosser of the year so far (may be until Avatar comes into play), thereby becoming the first non-fantasy action film to top the summer box office since Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible II(2000). It is also noteworthy that in its fifth weekend, Top Gun: Maverick has surpassed Sony’s Spiderman : No Way Home without even releasing in two key markets, Russia and China.
Credits where it’s due, this box-office feat is a well deserved win for the star and the entire team of Top Gun Maverick. Besides the film bringing iconic aviation action back, the movie is everything an average movie-goer wants at the movies. The film has pulled irregular movie-goers out of their couches to relish the 80s aviation action nostalgia alongside ardent action movie fanatics, Top Gun fans and Tom Cruise fans. It also adds that the film could be watched and enjoyed without having to go through a ten step prequel movie-course (sigh MCU) and still have equal or more fun at the theatres. One can only anticipate how big of a phenomenon will be Mission Impossible part 7 and 8, now that Tom Cruise’ box-office mojo is in full form and people are in fact returning to the movies.
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