Box Office: Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Tops $1.2 Billion Worldwide

Forbes ^ | July 15 2022 | Scott Mendelson

[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).

[Socon-Econ]

Americans are yearning to see an old-school heterosexual movie with heterosexual heros.

[minnesota_bound]

Tom Cruise next movie will have him strapped to the outside of the new ‘Starship’ rocket going after the bad guy inside. He will have a sidekick next to him named WALL-E..... : )

[DouglasKC]

One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. Actually went and saw it at the theatre....was everything it was hyped up to be..no pc crap, great blend of plot and action.

[DouglasKC]

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.”

I liked that too...he knows his audience...

[Jeff Chandler]

Other than the ridiculous casting, it was a great movie. Lots and lots of scenes with fighter planes performing cool stunts.

[ontap]

Everyone has their own personal views!!!

[Jim W N]

That’s not what I meant. I’m interested in hearing what you liked about the movie because I haven’t seen it.

[ontap]

I loved the movie....as a matter of fact we are going to see it again!!!

[Jim W N]

I didn’t really care for Elvis and Tom Hanks looks like a pasty Colonel What’s-His-Name. Do you think I would like it anyway?

I’m really interested in what you liked about it.

[ontap]

We all have our own opinion of things....to me it was an accurate portrayal of Elvis.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I get the impression that he didn’t really care for the star Elvis and was asking about the movie.

I think he might like it. Only thing I didn’t like was them overplaying the race/political angles of the times.

[ontap]

I know nothing of you taste in movies but I really liked it. I forget the actors name who played Elvis but he was good....I thought Tom Hanks did a good job as Col. Parker. Actually I was half way through the movie before I realized it was Hanks!!!

[ontap]

My last post was for you....getting late !!!

[Jim W N]

Did you like the Elvis movie? If so, what did you like about it?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I liked the music and how it encapsulated his life. I thought Hanks was a good Colonel Parker. They didn’t have the role as portraying Parker as a total sleezebag as many of us remember.

[Jim W N]

Thanks for the input.

I heard the character in the movie doesn’t do much singing. Are his songs part of the soundtrack?

Also, did the movie embrace his Christian upbringing which kind of stayed with him? (I think he had received Jesus as a youngster and was a Christian although what some might call him a “carnal Christian”.)