‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Keeps Flying High at Box Office With $86 Million 2nd Weekend

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That result is the best second weekend hold for any film that has opened to over $100 million, dropping just 32% from the Tom Cruise sequel’s $126.7 million 3-day opening.

By comparison, the Marvel films “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” both fell 67% in their second weekend while Warner Bros./DC’s “The Batman” fell 50% in its second weekend back in March.In addition, the film is now already Cruise’s highest grossing domestic release before inflation adjustment and Paramount’s highest grossing film since “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” ($352 million) in 2011, ranking in the studio’s top 10 all-time. “Top Gun: Maverick” got here off an audience base that has skewed considerably older than for most blockbusters, with the opening weekend crowd being 55% over the age of 35 while this weekend’s crowd was roughly even between moviegoers over and under age 35.In a distant second on the box office charts is Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which crossed $900 million worldwide in its fifth weekend with $9.3 million grossed domestically.

With $909 million grossed globally, the film now stands among the top 10 highest grossing Marvel Studios releases. 20th Century Studios’ “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” is in third, dropping 63% from $12.4 million opening for a second weekend total of $4.5 million and a 10-day total of $22.3 million.

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s “The Bad Guys” is fourth with $3.3 million and an $87.2 million total after seven weekends in theaters.