Top Gun sequel surpassed the billion-dollar earnings
"Top Gun: Maverick" toppled Marvel's superhero film "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" ($ 943 million)
Tom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" achieved another impressive result at the global box office this weekend as it crossed the $ 1 billion. In addition to becoming the most successful film of the 59-year-old actor. With that ticket sale, "Top Gun: Maverick" overthrew Marvel's superhero film "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" ($ 943 million) as the highest-grossing film of the year at the global box office.
"Spider-Man: No Way Home," which grossed more than $ 1.89 billion, is the only other film to reach $ 1 billion during the coronavirus pandemic. "Top Gun: Maverick" is the debut with the highest earnings in Cruise's career and his first film, which already exceeded the earnings of 100 million dollars in the first weekend of showing.
Namely, the producers targeted the audience older than 40, the demographic group that hesitates the most when it comes to returning to cinemas. Positive stories about the film should contribute to Cruise's film reaching a younger audience, those who were not even born when "Top Gun" was first shown 36 years ago.
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David A. Gross, who runs the film consulting company Franchise Entertainment Research, thinks the data on audience interest and earnings to date is "outstanding." "The original material is especially interesting, the acting is excellent, and Tom Cruise contributed to everything going perfectly," he said.
Despite countless delays in the premiere of the sequel to the film, which was supposed to hit cinemas for the first time in the summer of 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, success was not lacking. "Top Gun: Maverick" needs a cinema audience to justify a hefty production budget of 170 million dollars, which does not include tens of millions of dollars spent on the promotion of the film around the world. Part of the funds went to the premiere held at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was co-produced and co-financed by Skydance Media.
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