Top Gun: Maverick surpasses Titanic seventh-biggest film ever US box office grossing $662m sales
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Top Gun: Maverick surpasses Titanic as the seventh-biggest film EVER at the US box office after grossing $662 million in ticket sales
- Top Gun: Maverick’ has sunk Titanic as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales
- For Paramount Pictures, Top Gun also overtakes Titanic as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history
- Top Gun: Maverick has sold a similar number of tickets overseas as it has domestically, with the film’s international tally standing at $690 million
- It is close to reaching Marvel’s epic superhero flick Avengers: Infinity War which currently stands as the sixth-highest grossing domestic release ever with $678m
- Top five: Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ ($936m), Avengers: Endgame ($853m), Spider-Man: No Way Home ($804m), Avatar ($760m), Black Panther ($700m
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Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick supplanted Titanic as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office this weekend having now earned $662 million in ticket sales.
The sequel, now in its eleventh week of release, added $7 million to its total and beats James Cameron’s 1997 tragedy by $3 million, having raked in $659 million.
While Titanic is now in eighth place, Top Gun is now creeping up on sixth placed Avengers: Infinity War at $678 million and Black Panther with box office receipts of $700 million.
Top Gun: Maverick’ has sunk Titanic as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales
For Paramount Pictures, Top Gun also overtakes Titanic as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are pictured
Films that have grossed even more including Avatar, Spiderman: No Way Home, Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Force Awakens will likely not be surpassed, however it could well mean Top Gun: Maverick makes it into fifth place.
Top Gun is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office.
Internationally, it holds the number three spot for the studio’s highest-grossing titles ever.
Meanwhile, in 28 overseas markets — including France, Australia, and the UK — the flick is the biggest Paramount live action movie ever.
Top Gun is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office
Notably, this is the first film in Tom Cruise’s decades-long career to earn $1 billion.
The film was originally supposed to be released in June 2020, but Paramount held off on the release until more fans were able to return following the pandemic lockdowns.
Cruise’s Top Gun franchise took the global film market by storm, both in 1986 and 2022, but it’s not all for the big screen – as the actor has been a real-life licensed pilot since 1994.
And while the jets were flown by someone else in the original flick, it was the actor in the driving seat for the recent sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.
The cast of the film underwent months of flying training in preparation for the role, as they took to the sky themselves for the scenes.
While Tom wasn’t allowed to fly an actual F-18 jet, he was the pilot of other planes during the film – and even had to figure out his own camera shots while in the plane, with no space for a director inside.
The Tinseltown mainstay is looking to revisit the box office heights with a pair of high-profile sequels he’s working on, as he reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One and Part Two.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One is tentatively slated to hit theaters next July,
The domestic box office has experienced an impressive rebound in recent months; with a resurgence fueled by hits such as Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion.
The bad news for theaters is that Brad Pitt’s movie this weekend, Bullet Train. is the last big-budget, major studio film this summer
The bad news for theaters is that Brad Pitt’s movie this weekend, Bullet Train. is the last big-budget, major studio film this summer and there’s about to be a veritable desert when it comes to populist fare.
Studio executives and theater owners privately say that there won’t be another blockbuster until Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens in mid-November.
That’s a long time to wait, particularly for an exhibition industry that’s still trying to shake off the lingering impact of COVID closures and reduced attendance.