'Top Gun: Maverick' becomes one of the highest grossing movies ever

Fighter-jet adventure ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, a sequel to the 1986 hit movie has become the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office.

Tom Cruise starrer was released on May 27 globally. According to Variety, in the 110-year history of Paramount, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has also surpassed ‘Titanic’ as the studio’s most popular movie with $1.5 billion abroad and $2.2 billion worldwide.

It’s impressive that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has made the same amount of money internationally as it did at home; the worldwide total for the movie is $690 million. The blockbuster sequel to 1986’s ‘Top Gun’ has earned $1.3 billion worldwide without being seen in China or Russia.

Thanks to glowing word-of-mouth and repeat customers, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is pulling in audiences in a way that would have been monumental even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, it’s close to reaching Marvel’s epic superhero mashup ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, which currently stands as the sixth-highest grossing domestic release ever with $678 million.

Beyond that, the list of the top five domestic releases ever consists of ‘Black Panther’ ($700 million), ‘Avatar’ ($760 million), ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ ($804 million), ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ($853 million) and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ ($936 million).

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the cast includes Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, and Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in the first ‘Top Gun’.