Top Gun: Maverick reaches $1,000,000,000 in box office sales officially becoming Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film ever

The Hollywood action star returned to screens in May with the release of the

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long-awaited Top Gun sequel, which came 36 years after the original.

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It rocketed to immediate success with a stream of glowing reviews from

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critics and, once fans got to see the action for themselves, the rest was history.

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Following another strong weekend at the box office, Maverick pocketed

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another $30.5million (£25m) to its overall sales, a feat virtually unheard of for a film in its fifth week of release.

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It’s currently tussling with Elvis, the biopic on late rock n roll legend

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Elvis Presley starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, but is doing a pretty good

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job of holding its own considering the new competition.

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