Top Gun – Maverick continues its dominance at the box office. Its lasting appeal points to the possibility of the sequel moving past $1 billion in the near future.
Top Gun- Maverick’s remarkable box office success suggests that Tom Cruise’s sequel will surpass $1 billion. Since the pandemic, most films that were guaranteed $1 billion in box office revenue failed to do so. The box office success of Top Gun 2 has not been affected by the competition from superhero movies and theatrical fatigue. The legacy sequel beat Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness to become The Batman’s highest-grossing domestic film in 2022.
Top Gun: Maverick, which premieres 36 years after the 1986 Top Gun movie’s original release, stars Tom Cruise as the lead role. He trains new pilots for a high-stakes mission and is the film’s 36th anniversary. They also include Rooster (Miles Teller), his son, and RIO Goose. Top Gun: Maverick was released on Memorial Day weekend 2022 to rave reviews, and it performed better commercially and critically than the original Top Gun. Top Gun: Maverick broke many box office records in just three weeks. It was Tom Cruise’s biggest opening weekend and the highest-grossing movie of his career.
Top Gun II was not expected to be the first movie to break $1 billion at the box office in 2022, as it was a sequel to an iconic film from 1986. Only one movie has ever achieved this feat since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker . That was Spider-Man No Way Home which debuted in December 2021. Top Gun continues to surpass expectations and climb at the box office. It is now on track to join a billion-dollar club.
What a success Top Gun: Maverick has made at the box office
Top Gun: Maverick had earned more than $885 million worldwide as of June 20. This puts it behind Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness’s performance by less than $60 million. Top Gun 2 is the highest-grossing domestic film at the 2022 domestic cinemas, and it has earned over $466 million. Top Gun: Maverick opened to more than $150 million domestically, making it the largest Memorial Day weekend opening ever. Top Gun: Maverick’s performance at the box office has been remarkable since its opening weekend. Its second-weekend drop was the most dramatic of any movie that debuts at $100 million.
Will Top Gun: Maverick’s Box Office Reach $1 Billion (& When?
Top Gun: Maverick appears to have achieved this feat for itself, despite Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness being predicted to be 2022’s first movie to reach $1 billion. The total box office for Top Gun: Maverick 2022 could easily surpass $115 million by July’s end. Top Gun 2 made approximately $50 million on the Juneteenth weekend. This means it will only need two weekends of steady earnings and weak mid-week earnings to reach $1 billion worldwide.
Jurassic World Dominion and Lightyear are unlikely to decrease Top Gun: Maverick’s consistently strong box office performances. The sequel will not be in theaters until Thor, Love, and Thunder open on July 8. Top Gun 2 is likely to reach $1 billion before Thor. Love and Thunder debuts. Some estimates suggest that Top Gun 2 will reach $1 billion by the Fourth of July weekend. Paramount has not yet revealed when Tom Cruise’s Top Gun 2 high-earning movie will be released in theaters. However, it appears that the studio wants to see a $ 1 billion box office performance before the legacy sequel hits streaming platforms.
Why Top Gun 2’s Box Office is So Impressive
Top Gun 2 was predicted to do well at the box office, but it has performed far beyond expectations since its debut in theaters. Top Gun 2, which had an opening weekend that exceeded all box office estimates, saw its second weekend drop to the lowest of any film with a budget above $100 million. The 2022 movie also saw record-breaking declines on its two subsequent weekends. Top Gun: Maverick had its premiere in October, but there were concerns about Top Gun: Maverick’s appeal. The sequel was delayed numerous times, and the cult film was almost 40 years old.
The box office has not been able to produce simple, action-heavy sequels like Top Gun 2 since the pandemic. Top Gun: Maverick became the first movie other than a superhero to gross more than $500m at the global box office, and Jurassic World Dominion was the only other film that came close to it. The franchise already had five highly-performing installments to help its appeal. Top Gun: Maverick was based on the nostalgia of a 36-year-old movie starring Tom Cruise as the lead. The sequel used very little or no CGI. Top Gun 2 is a masterpiece in filmmaking. Its practicality and timeless style are very impressive.
Top Gun isn’t the movie that would make $1 billion before a huge MCU movie like Doctor Strange: The Multiverse of Madness. However, its entertaining and heartwarming story appealed to the masses in ways that the original couldn’t.