Always stronger, always faster… The day of its release a week ago, Wednesday May 25, “Top Gun: Maverick” had recorded 320,887 admissions on our territory, thus signing the second start of the year just behind "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", which had attracted 335,459 viewers when it was released on May 4.
Over the following days, and thanks to an Ascension weekend that allowed the action film with Tom Cruise to fill up, the leading duo reversed.
For its first week of operation, the sequel to “Top Gun” smashes everything: 1,328,181 tickets sold, thus signing the best start of the year ahead of “Doctor Strange…”.
It also has the second best start since the start of the pandemic, behind “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2.8 million admissions from December 15 to 22, 2021, a figure that will be difficult to beat).
Now remains in the feature film, pitting the fighter pilot against young rookies, maintaining that level, which seems off to a good start so far, and racing towards the other staggering number reached by the latest "Spider-Man »: more than 7 million admissions…
France is not the only country where "Maverick" prances in the lead: the film offers an international hit, especially in the United States, where it achieves the best start in history for a Memorial Day weekend. with $156 million in revenue in four days.
This good news is barely tarnished by the beginning of a controversy: a whistleblower has just revealed that the FBI would investigate the role of a crooked Russian producer in the financing of the blockbuster, which would therefore be produced in part, according to him, with "dirty Russian money".
It remains to be seen whether this investigation takes place and, if so, what its conclusions will be.
It should be noted, however, that the budget for “Top Gun: Maverick” was completed in 2018, long before Russia invaded Ukraine and financial sanctions were taken against the country and its oligarchs…
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