Box Office: Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Flies Past $1 Billion Worldwide

The film earned another $30.5 million in its fifth weekend. That put the film back in the top spot for the weekend, a remarkable achievement in any era, let alone our front loaded, opening weekend-centered theatrical environment. That fifth-weekend gross is the second-best such fifth-weekend gross after Titanic, which made $30 million in 1998. The domestic total is $521 million. With a new overseas total of $487 million, Tom Cruise's legacy sequel has now earned $1 billion worldwide. The movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski, just crossed the $1 billion mark. It is miracle number one.

The film is currently 15th on the all-time domestic chart, behind Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker andRogue One: A Star Wars Story. It is the biggest grossing movie of all time. It will be the 12th-biggest domestic of all time and the biggest such grosser since Avengers: Endgame. At a normal rate of descent, and nothing about this film has been normal thus far, it will end its run with around $585 million domestic. It is pulling James Cameron-worthy legs in the middle of the summer and has a busy June slate.

Independence Day weekend is likely to give it yet another kick in the ass, while there aren't that many big movies left after Minions: The Rise of Gru. Unless Bullet Train just goes crazy on August 6, the current and future tentpoles are going to stay open well into September. It is leggier than Aladdin, which had a Fri-Mon opening of $117 million and a Fri-Sun opening of $125 million. The unadjusted $600 million gross of Titanic is almost certain to be passed.

It is possible that it will become Paramount's biggest domestic earner and the seventh-biggest domestic grosser of all time. Even adjusted for inflation, it might end up behind only Grease and Titanic, both of which had an adjusted value of over one billion dollars. It's the 50th movie to reach $1 billion and it's pennies below The Dark Knight. It joins The Dark Knight, Rogue One and Black Panther as films that passed $1 billion with over 50% of the money coming from North America.

Top Gun: Maverick is the biggest global grosser and biggest domestic grosser of 2022, becoming the first non-fantasy action film to top the domestic summer box office since Mission: Impossible II in 2000. Tom Cruise fans, Top Gun fans, and the sort of irregular moviegoers who only show up for once-in-a- generation events like The Passion of the Christ are just some of the people it has pulled. It made up for a lighter-than-hoped summer theatrical slate by overperforming. It's possible that a rising tide will lift the situation where irregular filmgoers decide to go to the cinema and show up for more regular movies. That would be the second miracle.