Top Gun: Maverick came out almost two months ago, yet its theatrical run looks nowhere near its end as the movie revenue total now amounts to $1.24 billion worldwide, as of this writing, propelling it all the way to the nineteenth spot of all-time highest-grossing films, ranking just a few hundred million below The Avengers and Age of Ultron. Considering Top Gun: Maverick’s complicated relationship with Chinese investors, and thus the subsequent edits that rendered the final cut of the film forbidden for release in China, that feat seems all the more impressive.
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As far as the U.S. goes, after reaching domestic box earnings of $623.8M, Top Gun: Maverick edges past 2012’s The Avengers’ $623.3M total. With this, Top Gun: Maverick has become the ninth-highest grossing film ever to be released in the country. After clearing that milestone, Maverick now has Jurassic World ($653) and Titanic ($659m) in his sights, with every other film above it not named Avatar being either a recent Marvel or Star Wars entry.
To boost Top Gun: Maverick’s chances, it’s speculated the movie could still be in theaters for a few extra weeks. This would give it the kind of long screening period Spider-Man: No Way Home recently had to attain its impressive financial results. The stellar box office performance for Top Gun definitely validates Tom Cruise’s conviction for the film to only be released when the time was right and should stall its eventual landing on Paramount Plus for a little longer.
Conversely, Top Gun: Maverick’s numbers reaffirm the idea that the post-pandemic world is once again ready to push films past the billion-dollar mark, even non-superhero ones, a feat that had only been accomplished by No Way Home in recent times. To make things even better, Top Gun: Maverick reviews have matched its commercial hype, as Cruise’s second go at the character and its overall story is almost unanimously considered superior to the original, which was for all intents and purposes a very ’80s kind of movie.
Sure, all these figures are not adjusted for inflation, which makes the initial success of Titanic and Jurassic World more worthy, but it’s easy to see why some people already want Top Gun 3 to complete the trilogy.
Top Gun: Maverick is now playing in theaters.
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Source: Variety
