Not only has the Paramount/Skydance sequel given Cruise the first $100 million-plus opening of his career, but it is more than double the opening weekend of any “Mission: Impossible” film.
Cruise’s previous opening weekend record was set by “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” in 2018 with $61.2 million. For Paramount, “Top Gun: Maverick” has hit a level of success the studio has not seen since the early 2010s, when it was Hollywood’s top box office grossers with the “Transformers” franchise in its heyday and Marvel Studios still under its ownership.
In fact, “Top Gun: Maverick” is currently just shy of Paramount’s all-time opening weekend record set by Marvel’s “Iron Man 2” in 2010 with $128.1 million.
If ticket sales on Sunday exceed current industry estimates, that record could topple. As for the extended Memorial Day weekend, estimates currently have “Top Gun: Maverick” earning a spectacular $151 million 4-day start, just shy of the $153 million Memorial Day record set back in 2007 by “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” Again, “Top Gun: Maverick” is within reach of this record depending on how the rest of the holiday weekend plays out. “Top Gun: Maverick” has also been the windfall that premium formats were hoping for, as Imax reported a Memorial Day weekend record estimate of $21 million domestic and $32.5 million global from “Maverick” screenings.
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