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Top Gun: Maverick Tops North American Box Office

2022-05-30T09:01:36.456Z


The entries for the second installment of Top Gun fly away, in just four days, making it the most profitable film of Tom Cruise's 40-year career.


Top Gun: Maverick

, the 36-year-old sequel to Tom Cruise's successful airplane film, soared as soon as it was released at the head of the American box office, according to provisional figures published on Sunday May 29 by the specialized firm. Exhibitor Relations.

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Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, where Tom Cruise received an honorary palme d'or, the Paramount / Skydance blockbuster raised $ 151 million in the United States and Canada according to these estimates over four days, from Friday to Monday, holiday for Americans celebrating Memorial Day.

It is the highest-grossing film in Tom Cruise's 40-year career and the first to top $100 million on opening weekend.

War of the Worlds

, which opened with $64 million in 2005, was previously the Hollywood actor's biggest opening weekend.

But

Top Gun: Maverick

needs those many entries to justify its hefty $170 million production budget, which doesn't include the tens of millions spent promoting the film to audiences around the world.

The first, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, ended with the flight over the Croisette by eight fighter planes (paid by the French government).

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The sequel to

Top Gun

received critical acclaim.

It scored 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and an "A+" CinemaScore.

Tom Cruise still plays Navy test pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, now a captain, who trains to bomb a rogue country's uranium enrichment plant.

The film boasts a strong cast, with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller and Jon Hamm, while

Top Gun

veteran Val Kilmer makes a brief appearance as Iceman, a key character from the first. shutter.

The over-40s came out in force, which is impressive as they are the most reluctant to return to theaters.

The film's positive word-of-mouth should help reach younger audiences, who weren't even born when the first

Top Gun

was released.

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Top Gun

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With this supersonic entry,

Top Gun: Maverick

dethrones

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

, the latest production from Marvel Studios, leading three weekends in a row, and which still totals 21.1 million in revenue from Friday to Monday.

The sequel to the adventures of the neurosurgeon turned sorcerer, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, had the best launch of the year, with 187 million dollars.

In third place (15 million dollars) comes the animated film

Bob's Burgers: The Movie

, based on the American television series of the same name, which tells the funny adventures of a family running a hamburger restaurant.

With $7.5 million,

Downton Abbey 2: A New Era

ranks fourth, ahead of

The Bad Guys

, outlaw animals who try to turn nice ($6.1 million).

Here is the rest of the Top 10:

6.

Sonic 2

(3.1 million)

7.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

(3.1 million)

8.

The Secret of the Lost City

(2.3 million)

9.

Men

(1.5 million)

10.

Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore's Secrets

(1.1 million)

Source: lefigaro

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