The REAL Maverick! Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun' sequel shatters box office records with $300M opening

The REAL Maverick! Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun' sequel shatters box office records with $300M opening
Tom Cruise as Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in 'Top Gun: Maverick' (Paramount Pictures)

Tom Cruise is one of the biggest stars in the entire world and it came as a shock to people when they got to know that none of his previous movies garnered a $100 million opening at the domestic box office. When ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ was released, everyone thought that it will finally give Cruise his biggest opening yet and they were right because the sequel to the 1986 original movie has shattered records by earning more than $300 million globally in the first four days of the movie.

In what looks like a promising start to the summer season, the Tom Cruise-starrer entered record books by breaking the Memorial Day record with a massive three-day domestic haul of $126.7 million. Earlier, Paramount and Skydance expected the sequel to earn $124 million in the first three days of its release and finish the long weekend with $151 million. However, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ sold more tickets than any other movie and pushed the four-day tally to $160.5 million.

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