Top Gun: Maverick Is The First Movie That Grossed Billion Dollars This Year
Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 original movie starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, soared to become the first movie this year to reach a billion-dollar milestone at the worldwide box office, Deadline has learned.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick was initially set to be released in 2020. Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, the movie was delayed several times, but looks like Paramount Pictures made a good decision by delaying the movie until it’s suitable for a regular theatrical release, considering it grossed $1.006 billion worldwide. This makes the Top Gun sequel the first movie starring Tom Cruise to gross more than a billion dollars. Before Maverick, Mission: Impossible – Fallout was Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing movie with $791.1 million grossed worldwide.
At the list of highest-grossing movies this year, Maverick is now holding the first spot, followed by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with $947 million, and The Batman with $770 million. Jurassic World Dominion holds the fourth place with $746 million, but it’s likely that that movie will earn even more, considering it’s the newest movie among these movies that are on top of the box office worldwide.
“After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.” — Top Gun: Maverick, official synopsis
Of course, there are still some blockbusters that have the potential to gross more than a billion dollars this year. The first movie that could easily do that is Avatar: The Way of Water, a sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 original movie which is still the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.8 billion. The sequel is set to be released next December.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick is starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. The movie received widespread critical acclaim.