‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Cruising Over $200M Offshore Today; Buzzes Past Original Overseas
deadline.comParamount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has grossed $185M at the international box office through Thursday. This puts it on course to cross $200M today in offshore play.
Couple that with domestic’s equally supersonic performance, and Maverick will reach $400M+ global in less than two full frames of play.On Thursday, Tom Cruise’s return to the cockpit surpassed the overseas lifetime of the original 1986 Top Gun which has been clocked at $176M.
We understand that the gross on that Tony Scott-directed movie is difficult to translate to today’s dollars, given in part that the Euro didn’t even exist pre-2002 and that box office reporting was vastly different back then.
Regardless, this is a milestone.Despite what might be perceived as distractions from the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in the UK, that market has lit the fires for Maverick.
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