Posted on 07/16/2022 9:08:32 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has passed $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office, including $605.5 million domestic and $602.5 million overseas sans a single penny from China and Russia. This makes the film, already Paramount’s biggest (sans inflation) domestic grosser behind Titanic ($600 million in 1997/1998 and $659 million counting the 2012 3-D reissue), Paramount’s biggest global grosser. It has passed the $1.105 billion gross of Transformers: Age of Extinction, which was the top grossing film of 2014 and sits behind James Cameron’s Titanic. However, the Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio romantic melodrama (which has grossed $2.2 billion global) was distributed overseas by 20th Century Fox, meaning the Joseph Kosinski-directed, $170 million-budgeted Top Gun 2 is the biggest “all Paramount” global earner.
That puts the Tom Cruise/Miles Teller/Jennifer Connelly/Jon Hamm/Glen Powell action drama between Minions ($1.15 billion in 2015) and Iron Man 3 ($1.214 billion in 2013) for 22nd place globally. Presuming it continues onward, next on the list are The Fate of the Furious ($1.236 billion), Incredibles 2 ($1.243 billion), Beauty and the Beast ($1.263 billion) and Frozen ($1.282 billion) before it possibly joins the $1.3 billion club. Oh, and once it passes the $608 million domestic gross of Incredibles 2 ($609 million), it’ll be the biggest-grossing, in unadjusted domestic earnings, “part two” sequel of all time. On the global list, once it passes Incredibles 2 it’ll be behind only Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4 billion) and Frozen II ($1.45 billion).
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It’s really a FUN movie. Great for date night.
Seen it twice. Loved both experiences.
After sitting through preview after horrible preview and a bunch of LGBWhatever crap advertisements, it was refreshing just to have Cruise come on the screen with the simple message, “We made this movie for you.”
Great movie! Hubby and I saw it and we loved it. Congrats to Tom Cruise. What a hit!
Such a cool movie.
The Who’s soundtrack “Won’t Be Fooled Again” during a dog fight is perfect.
It is just a good movie. Makes you feel good.
Yeah that was a nice touch.
Not bad but I prefer LGBTQ.W.H.O.cares!
I like Tom Cruise and pray for him.
Say what you will about Tom Cruise, he always seems to try to give you a good show.
amazing when you dont put all the “woke” crap in something how much better it does!
You would THINK movie maker capitalists would learn that, and stop trying to make a political statement in every movie. It costs them major dollars.
I would of gone to see Lightyear for sure with my entire family, but passed because of the woke BS.
I hear he’s out of scientology now.
Waiting for the 4K release.
I bet it will be epic on my home theater.
We saw it twice! Took the grandkids.
I would not be celebrating this. It just means more massive amounts of money poured into that insane, dangerous, and evil cult of scientology.
If the dems try another pandemic lockdown for the 2022 elections, I believe many of the people who cooperated in the past will just say NO. "Fool me once ....".
If this patriotic (from what I’ve heard) movie hits 2 billion I expect the 2024 rat candidate to make their announcement looking something like Apollo Creed
in Rocky 1.
That's fine. Nobody is asking you to celebrate anything.
It just means more massive amounts of money poured into that insane, dangerous, and evil cult of scientology.
Actually, Scientology is a far better organization than the evil, woke, Democratic Party of America, which has put hundreds of President Trump supporters in solitary confinement for over a year with no charges.
Answer to prayer.
I haven’t seen the movie, but if it’s as patriotic as people say, wait til *the* Top Gun is finally released.
It simply won’t get any better than that. ‘Super-mega MAGA’ just doesn’t cover it.
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