Every week, Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick breaks several new records. Its latest achievement came on July14, when it passed the $1.2 billion mark in global revenue to become Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film ever worldwide.
Top Gun: Maverick was released on May 27, and in only 31 days it managed to gross $1 billion, making it the second movie to do so during the entire pandemic, and the first ever for Cruise. Earlier this week, it passed the $600 million mark in domestic profits, becoming only the 12th film in U.S. history to ever do so.
Deadline reports that as of Thursday, Top Gun: Maverick has crossed the same threshold in international sales, reaching a whopping total of more than $1.2 billion. With this, it has officially passed Transformers: Age of Extinction to become the worldwide highest-grossing film of all time for Paramount Pictures. Top Gun: Maverick is now the biggest live-action Paramount film of all time in 28 overseas markets, including the U.K., France, Australia, and Brazil. Its first run profits have exceeded even those of James Cameron's 1997 juggernaut Titanic. Still in its 8th week and maintaining a strong presence at the box office, the film is expected to continue racking up revenue for Paramount.
Perhaps the most impressive part of Top Gun: Maverick's performance is that it has broken all of these records during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film’s success, however, has been aided tremendously by a general recovery of the U.S. economy and a return of movie-goers to the theater. The general population has decided to largely return to life as normal, and many people were ready for a new summer blockbuster. The recovery of the U.S. film industry for these same reasons also led North America to reclaim its spot from China as the world’s largest film market earlier this month, with the success of Top Gun: Maverick playing a large part in the achievement.
This summer has been tremendously successful for Hollywood, proving that the theatrical blockbuster is back for good. Within a matter of weeks, audiences have seen the release of Paramount's Top Gun: Maverick, Disney's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder, and Universal's Jurassic World Dominion and Minions: The Rise of Gru. All of these have been major successes, with Doctor Strange and Jurassic World poised to achieve $1 billion in revenue before summer's end.
Top Gun: Maverick is currently in theaters.
Source: Deadline