‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Will Return to Theaters for 2 Weeks

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Paramount announced the re-release on Tuesday, with the film heading back to the big screen on Dec. 2 and running until Dec.

15, the day before Disney/20th Century’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” is set to make its theatrical debut and one week before “Maverick” makes its streaming debut on Paramount+ on Dec.

22. “’Top Gun: Maverick’ truly epitomizes the magic of the moviegoing experience, and we wanted to provide fans the opportunity to once again enjoy this cinematic spectacle as it was meant to be seen,” said Chris Aronson, President of Domestic Distribution for Paramount Pictures. “This feels like the perfect time to bring Top Gun: Maverick back to theaters so audiences everywhere can once again experience how special this film is.”With $1.48 billion grossed worldwide and a Paramount-record $716 million grossed in North America, “Top Gun: Maverick” stands among the top 5 highest grossing films in domestic box office history and No.

11 on the all-time global charts before inflation adjustment. After setting a new opening weekend record for Memorial Day weekend, it stayed in the top five on the box office charts for the remainder of the summer and is one of only three films, along with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Jurassic World: Dominion” to hit the $1 billion global mark since the pandemic began.