Top Gun: Maverick It seemed that it was going to end up in a drawer and that it would never be released, or perhaps, as a title, it called for us to subscribe to some streaming platform after a few days. And it is that in the end, despite the fact that Tom Cruise himself was almost pushed to make the film much to his chagrin, it seems that You won’t have to regret anything even from the delay it suffered due to the pandemic. What happened?
Break the 500 million barrier
Basically what has happened is that when there are two weekends on the billboard, Top Gun: Maverick has become one of the successes of this first half of the year, with a cumulative collection as of June 6, 2022 that exceeds 548 million dollars worldwide. Obviously, it is to be expected that this figure will increase a little more in the next two weeks since a good part of the success of the film is based, not only on the good reviews it is generating, but on that powerful feeling that is nostalgia.
There are several generations of viewers who have grown up with the adventures of Maverick or Iceman showing off as they become the deadliest fighter pilots in the world, and knowing what has happened to them almost 40 years later is attractive enough to go to the cinemas and pay for a ticket. Something similar to what happened with karate Kid Y that cobra kai that succeeds on Netflix based on sticking nostalgic sticks with each character, cameo or reference to the original films.
Now, that amount of just over 548 million dollars is not the maximum that Tom Cruise’s films have raised, since he has to his credit other hits that have grossed considerably more at the box office. Do you know what movies those are? Behold.
Impossible missions and other invasions
If we look at the list of the 200 highest grossing films in history, we will see that Top Gun: Maverick is ranked 193 while we find others starring Tom Cruise are much higher. For example War of the Worldsdirected by Steven Spielberg and that in 2005 managed to collect 604 million dollars at the box office and placed 171 in the classification.
Obviously, the movie saga of Mission ImpossibleThey have done a lot for the American actor, and it is with her that has achieved great collection figures: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation managed to raise in 2015 just over 682 million dollars, ranking 136th in the ranking while four years earlier, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocolmanaged to exceed 694 million dollars and climb to 133rd place.
More recently, in 2018, Mission Impossible: Fallout also got a great result by raising just over 791 million dollars and ranking 96th among the highest-grossing films in what is, at the moment, the one that has managed to reach the highest of all those starring Tom Cruise. We will see how it goes with the last two that are already finishing for a premiere in the summers of 2023 and 2024.
