Top Gun: Maverick has now become the highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie of all time at the worldwide box office. For many years, Cruise has been one of Hollywood’s most internationally marketable movie stars. After his breakthrough roles in Risky Business and the original Top Gun, Cruise went on to star in more high-profile dramas including Rain Man and Jerry Maguire. In recent years, he has turned his attention back to huge blockbuster projects, including the Universal horror reboot The Mummy, the time loop sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow, and the Mission: Impossible franchise, in which he performs death-defying stunts as superspy Ethan Hunt.
On May 27, following several years of pandemic-related delays, his long-awaited follow-up Top Gun: Maverick was released in theaters, cementing his status as a perennial box office draw. He reprised his role from the original film opposite Val Kilmer as Iceman, with new cast members including Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Jake Picking, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Manny Jacinto, and Monica Barbaro.
Top Gun: Maverick’s opening weekend w as the highest of Cruise’s career and the sequel quickly became the actor’s highest-grossing movie of all time in the United States. Now, Maverick has broken another Cruise record.Per Deadline, Top Gun: Maverick has now hit a worldwide total of $806.4 million as of Thursday. This is comprised of $422.2 million on the domestic front and $384.2 million in international markets. In addition to making the film the highest-grossing picture of 2022 so far, it has now earned more worldwide than any other Cruise film in cinema history.
Top Gun: Maverick has beat out Cruise’s previous number 1 hit, the smash franchise hit Mission: Impossible β Fallout, which made a total of $791.1 million worldwide. Unusual for an international blockbuster, the bulk of Maverick’s success has been bolstered by its performance in the domestic market. It’s weak showing in international markets can be accounted for by the fact that it’s a film about the American military, even though the enemy soldiers in the film aren’t specifically stated to be from any particular country.
Top Gun: Maverick has nevertheless been an enormous help for the moviegoing industry, even blowing the box office gross of the original Top Gun movie out of the water. That film only made $357.2 million, though adjusted for inflation that comes to about $958.75 million, giving Maverick more to shoot for to truly top its predecessor. Whether or not it accomplishes this, it is still a gangbusters hit that will more or less guarantee another film in the Top Gun franchise within the next few years.