'Top Gun: Maverick' surpasses 'Titanic' to become 7th highest-grossing movie ever at domestic box office
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: It's been more than two months since Tom Cruise starrer high octane action-thriller film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ dropped in the theaters globally. The film, which refuses to slow down at the box office, has raked in approximately $662 million at the domestic box office exceeding stalwart filmmaker James Cameron’s initial release of 'Titanic’ theatrical run and the 3D re-release.
Cruise starrer has become the seventh highest grosser film with a collection worth $662 million at the domestic box office. Especially for the first time ever, Paramount's 'Top Gun: Maverick' has also overthrown Leonardo Dicaprio starrer as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history. ‘Titanic’, however, still remains ahead of the Tom Cruise films in terms of inflation with a $2.2 billion worldwide collection.
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Interestingly, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ earned $7 million this weekend which marked the film’s eleventh week, Movieweb reports. It has also fallen out of the top five films for the first time ever but is expected to enter the coveted top five films list next week again due to the lack of high-profile releases this month.
Talking about global box office, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has collected $1.35 billion worldwide and is likely to wrap its theatrical run with about $1.4 billion. It has smoothly exceeded Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ ($1.348 billion), and that is without even playing in China or Russia in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. However, Black Panther’s domestic gross ($700 million) could be hard to beat but remains in sight. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is currently the seventh biggest movie ever stateside and is behind only ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ ($678.8 million), ‘Avatar’ ($760 million), ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ($858 million), ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ ($804 million), and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ ($936 million). In the worst-case scenario, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will fly past ‘Avengers: Infinity War’s $678 million domestic collection in the next few weeks.
'Top Gun: Maverick' may have beaten Titanic for now, but the record won’t hold for long. As Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet starrer epic romantic saga ‘Titanic’, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, is gearing up to release again, as reported by Deadline.
Directed by iconic filmmaker Joseph Kosinski, $170 million mega-budget multi-starrer film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ picks up decades after the original. The storyline of the film follows Cruise’s character ‘Pete Maverick Mitchell’ who ends up giving training to a new group of brash aviators for a key assignment. The cast of the hit film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ includes Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer. The film has been given rave reviews by global fans and masses as well for the brilliant storyline with loads of adrenaline rush and high octane action in the film shot so brilliantly by the director with exceptional cinematography and alluring visuals as well.