At long last, Tom Cruise is entering the $100 million opening club. Playing in 4,735 locations, the widest theatrical release in domestic box office history, “Top Gun: Maverick” is proj…
At long last, Tom Cruise is entering the $100 million opening club.Top Gun: Maverick
The legacy sequel to Tony Scott’s swoony 1986 original kicked off with a bang, drawing a $51.8 million opening day, including $19.3 million in Thursday previews. That’s a record for Paramount Pictures, outdoing the $51.2 million opening day of 2010’s “Iron Man 2.” “Maverick,” which was co-financed and co-produced by Skydance, originally carried a projected opening between $85 million and $100 million over the long weekend, though momentum has only grown since.
Cruise reunited with “Oblivion” director Joseph Kosinski for “Top Gun: Maverick.” Val Kilmer reprises his role as rival “Iceman” for the sequel, while Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Ed Harris also star. The rest of the cast is filled out with the likes of Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman and Monica Barbaro, playing a crew of young pilots that Cruise’s Maverick is training for combat.
Word on the street couldn’t be more auspicious for “Top Gun.” Paramount launched preview screenings weeks ago, beginning with a full premiere at CinemaCon in April, giving itself plenty of runway for buzz to build. Critics have been almost universally positive, with 97% of critics collected by Rotten Tomatoes offering their approval. Audiences are also loving the film, with “Maverick” scoring a maximum “A+” grade on CinemaScore.
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