Box Office: Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun 2’ Sets Off Sonic Boom With Projected $150M Opening

[onthedarkside]

 

The sequel — earning a coveted A+ CinemaScore — is scoring the highest Memorial Day weekend debut of all time (sorry, Jack Sparrow)

 

Superheroes and horror aren’t the only game in town anymore at the box office.

 

Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick grossed a massive $51.8 million Friday — including $19.3 million in previews — as it opened in more than 4,700 theaters in North America.

 

That puts the Tom Cruise movie on course to score the best Memorial Day opening of all time with a projected three-day domestic haul of $123 million and $150 million for the four days.  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the current record holder at $139 million, according to Comscore.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/top-gun-opens-box-office-tom-cruise-1235155078/

 

[Thailand]

Maverick flying a wheelchair?

[Excel]

Already on pirate bay but as HDcam only, guess very very soon it will be a BR rip

[aussiexpat]

Maverick was a lieutenant in 1986, now only a captain 36 years later, what a failure lol

[Bluespunk]

Lordy, lordy, lordy, please spare us another tom snooze film.

[onthedarkside]

The audiences disagree:

 

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ breaks longtime Memorial Day weekend record with $156-million opening

 

“Top Gun: Maverick” soared to the highest-ever Memorial Day weekend opening by raking in an impressive $156 million at the domestic box office in its first four days of release.

 

The updated estimates from measurement firm Comscore released Monday pushes Paramount’s highly anticipated “Top Gun” sequel past the previous record-setting Memorial Day total set by Disney’s 2007 “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” The third film in the “Pirates” franchise earned $153 million over the extended holiday weekend.

 

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-05-30/top-gun-maverick-memorial-day-weekend-record-tom-cruise