According to The Hollywood Reporter, Top Gun: Maverick is officially the first Tom Cruise movie to join the billion dollar club at the global box office. This makes just the 50th Hollywood movie to ever hit the milestone. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film hit the accomplishment on Sunday, with an estimated $521.7 million and $484.7 million overseas for a grand total of just over $1 billion dollars. The film got a bit of a boost from being re-released in select Imax and premium format screens. The rerelease by Paramount and Skydance raked in an additional $30.5 million domestically and $44.5 million overseas. According to Paramount, 16 percent of Top Gun 2’s viewers have seen the film more than once in theatres, while four percent have seen it four times or more. In comparison, the first Top Gun film, which was released in 1986, earned $357.8 million at the worldwide box office. With Cruise’s previously most successful film being Mission: Impossible -Fallout, which accumulated $791 million in 2018.
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