Top Gun: Maverick, a legacy sequel to the most commercially successful movie in Paramount history, once more astounded the audience. Tom Cruise and his elite group of TOPGUN aviators have entered the top ten highest-grossing movies of all time in their 13th weekend, surpassing the $1.4 billion milestone globally with $1.403 billion. The sequel eclipsed Marvel’s titan, Avengers: Infinity War, for the sixth highest-grossing box office film in history after the studio’s fan appreciation event the previous weekend boosted its domestic attendance once more, bringing in a staggering $683.375 million.
Maverick continues to dominate its own statistics each week as the results come in, maintaining little momentum in the process. The movie has earned $8.7 million overseas so far in its 63 regions. Jet fuel and magic flow through the veins of the Joseph Kosinski-directed sequel, which became Paramount’s top live-action film in 37 countries, including the UK, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. With no significant release in China or Russia, Maverick has so far made $720 million worldwide, maintaining its cumulation from the previous weekend.
Audiences have been stunned by Cruise’s portrayal of Captain Pete Mitchell, the renowned fighter pilot from the 1987 film Top Gun, nearly forty years after the original film’s debut. Miles Teller, who plays Lieutenant Bradley Shaw, the son of Maverick’s late partner Goose, Glen Powell, Danny Ramirez, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Greg Tarzan Davis, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Val Kilmer, who reprises his role as Maverick’s adversary Iceman, round out the all-new cast of TOPGUN trainees in Maverick in addition to Cruise.
Since the movie’s historic Memorial Day weekend opening weekend, which brought in an astounding $160 million, the UK has been Top Gun: With a total revenue of $98.5 million, Maverick’s highest-earning overseas market is followed by Japan ($85.8 million), Korea ($64.6 million), Australia ($62.2 million), France ($54.7 million), and Germany ($34.8 million).