published1. June 2022, 04:21
The latest flick starring Tom Cruise is off to a flying start. A record income was posted on the premiere weekend.
More than three decades following his theatrical success with “Top Gun” (1986), Tom Cruise has set a record with the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick”. “Thank you to everyone who watched Top Gun: Maverick and made it such a historic launch weekend,” the 59-year-old Hollywood star wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Biggest Memorial-weekend theatrical release ever,” the film’s Twitter page said, citing $300 million in revenue worldwide over the weekend of the premiere.
In North America alone, the film grossed over $160 million in four days over the Memorial Day long weekend. “Top Gun: Maverick” beat the previous record holder “Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End”, which brought in 153 million dollars in this period in 2007.
Tom Cruise (here at the London premiere in mid-May) has a good laugh: the latest film with him in the leading role is making the box office ring. (May 19, 2022)
AFP
In the action film he once once more plays the breakneck pilot Pete Mitchell aka Maverick, who is now preparing a young squad of pilots for a dangerous combat mission. Maverick’s old buddy Iceman (Val Kilmer) is also there, directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”).
(DPA/roy)
