Just like its namesake protagonist,Top Gun: Maverickjust keeps shattering one record after the other as Paramount Pictures' biggest film ever has now surpassed Marvel Studios’The Avengerson the list of the highest-grossing films ever in the United States, now setting its sights on a few other cinematic masterpieces.
Top Gun: Maverickcame out almost two months ago, yet its theatrical run looks nowhere near its end as the movie revenue total now amounts to $1.24 billion worldwide, as of this writing, propelling it all the way to the nineteenth spot of all-time highest-grossing films, ranking just a few hundred million belowThe AvengersandAge of Ultron. ConsideringTop Gun: Maverick’s complicated relationship with Chinese investors, and thus the subsequent edits that rendered the final cut of the film forbidden for release in China, that feat seems all the more impressive.
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As far as the U.S. goes, after reaching domestic box earnings of $623.8M,Top Gun: Maverickedges past 2012’sThe Avengers' $623.3M total. With this,Top Gun: Maverickhas become the ninth-highest grossing film ever to be released in the country. After clearing that milestone, Maverick now hasJurassic World($653) andTitanic($659m) in his sights, with every other film above it not namedAvatarbeing either a recent Marvel orStar Warsentry.
To boostTop Gun: Maverick’s chances, it’s speculated the movie could still be in theaters for a few extra weeks. This would give it the kind of long screening periodSpider-Man: No Way Homerecently had to attain its impressive financial results. The stellar box office performance forTop Gundefinitely validates Tom Cruise’s convictionfor the film to only be released when the time was right and should stall its eventual landing on Paramount Plus for a little longer.
Conversely,Top Gun: Maverick’s numbers reaffirm the idea that the post-pandemic world is once again ready to push films past the billion-dollar mark, even non-superhero ones, a feat that had only been accomplished byNo Way Homein recent times. To make things even better,Top Gun: Maverickreviews have matched its commercial hype, as Cruise’s second go at the character and its overall story is almost unanimously considered superior to the original, which was for all intents and purposes a very ’80s kind of movie.
Sure, all these figures are not adjusted for inflation, which makes the initial success ofTitanicandJurassic Worldmore worthy, but it’s easy to see whysome people already wantTop Gun3to complete the trilogy.
