(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 29 - Thirty-six years later Top Gun returns to the North American box office: the highly anticipated Top Gun: Maverick, sequel to the 1986 blockbuster, again with TomCruise, after the preview in Cannes has raised 124 million dollars on Memorial Day weekend, the actor's best career debut for 40 years.
The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski, slipped Doctor Strange into second place in the multiverse of madness, with Benedict Cumberbatch, which on its fourth weekend in theaters grossed 16.4 million dollars (touching a total of 371 million dollars).
In third place the debut of the new animated film from 20th Century, Bob's Burgers - The Film, with 12.6 million dollars.
Fourth Place for Downton Abbey II: A New Era: $ 5.9 million over the weekend ($ 28.5 million in two weeks) for the film, based on the hugely popular British series, which again stars Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and Michelle Dockery.
And in fifth place still animation for families with Too bad (4.6 million dollars, for a total of 81.3 million).
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