Box Office: Why ‘Top Gun 2’ Could Be the First Tom Cruise Movie to Join the $1B Club
The sequel is now destined to gross north of $900 million globally, including $500 million or more in North America.
Nothing short of astonishment swept across Hollywood over the June 3-5 weekend when Tom Cruise’s
Top Gun: Maverick
dropped a mere 29 percent from its Memorial Day launch thanks to spectacular word of mouth.
That’s the lowest decline in history for a movie opening to $100 million or more, and a slim decline for any movie, according to Comscore.
A decline of 50 percent would have been considered excellent, or even 55 percent.
The bigger a Hollywood tentpole opens, the more inclined it is to drop 60 percent or more.
Take Marvel and Disney’s
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
,
which in its fifth weekend on Sunday became the first film of 2022 to cross the $900 million
mark at the worldwide box office despite falling 67 percent in its sophomore outing.