Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise has reached new heights with Top Gun: Maverick, with the film passing the $800 million mark worldwide to become the actor’s highest-grossing movie at the global box office.
By close of play on Thursday, the sequel to the 1986 action classic had earned $806.4 million, with $422.2 million domestic and $384.2 million from international markets. That puts the movie ahead of Cruise’s previous box office best, the $791.1 million haul of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and ahead of Warner Bros.’ The Batman ($770.3 million) to second place for 2022 behind Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Maverick has held very well despite competition from Jurassic World Dominion, and with a handful of markets still to come including Korea (and the Doctor Strange sequel about to hit Disney+), it’s certainly possible that Maverick could fly past the Marvel blockbuster in the coming weeks and perhaps even break the billion dollar barrier.
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”.
Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
Top Gun: Maverick features a cast including stars Tom Cruise (Maverick), Val Kilmer (Iceman), Jennifer Connolly (American Pastoral), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Harris (Westworld), Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale), Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Charles Parnell (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Bashir Salahuddin (Glow), Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop), Danny Ramirez (The Gifted), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Kara Wang (Good Trouble), Jack Schumacher (Empire), Greg Tarzan Davis (Chicago P.D.), Jake Picking (Blockers), Raymond Lee (Mozart in the Jungle), Jean Louisa Kelly (Ant-Man) and Lyliana Wray (Strange Angel).
