Top Gun: Maverick Beats Pirates Of The Caribbean For Biggest Memorial Day Weekend Opening – FandomWire

Tom Cruise led Top Gun: Maverick played exceptionally well having a box office debut on its opening weekend. The Top Gun sequel returning after 36 long years performed better than what was being expected, giving Tom Cruise a major achievement in his career.

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Joseph Kosinski directed Top Gun: Maverick starring Cruise is set after 36 years when Maverick returns to the Top Gun, where events will make Maverick confront his past as he trains a group of younger fighter pilots, including the son of his late best friend Goose, for a dangerous new mission unlike any other.

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The sequel to the biggest movie of 1986 grossed $156 million in its 4-day opening weekend. The sales are higher than Johnny Depps Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, which grossed $153 million in its long weekend, making it the biggest Memorial Day Debut in history.

Though Paramount and Skydance had originally expected it to $151 million in its opening weekend, the film had a great turnout on Sunday with $126 million. Not only that but The movie was also played in 4,732 North American cinemas making it the widest release of all time.

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This is a promising movie especially for Tom Cruise as he got the biggest debut in his 40-years of a long career. That being said, this is Cruises first movie to surpass $100 million in a single weekend. Before the Top Gun sequel, 2005s War of the Worlds stood as Cruises biggest opening weekend with $64 million followed by 2018s Mission: Impossible Fallout with $61 million.

Top Gun: Maverick has earned the first A+ rating on CinemaScore and has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes which makes it one of Cruises best-reviewed films. At the international box office, the Top Gun 2 grossed $124 million, making the global estimate of around $248 million.

Joseph Kosinski directed Top Gun: Maverick a sequel to 1986s Top Gun starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

Top Gun: Maverick is now available in theatres.

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