Talk about a hold. Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s Mach 10 momentum at the domestic box office continued into Wednesday with $14.8M, repping a 6% dip from Tuesday’s take; a great weekday take.
The Tom Cruise movie’s cume now stands at $191.1M, having already bested the 1986 original film’s domestic box office ($180.2M), and Cruise’sMission: Impossible($180.9M). Today,Top Gun: Maverickwill cross $200M, flying past Cruise’s 2015 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ($195M).
The pic’s second weekend is expected to gross $57M, -55% and will easily become the 3x Oscar nominee’s highest grossing movie ever in U.S./Canada, taking out 2005’sWar of the Worlds($234.2M). There aren’t any major studio wide openers this weekend to slow down Top Gun 2. NEON is going wide with their Cannes premiere Crimes of the Futurefrom David Cronenberg; that movie garnering 80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s clear summer moviegoing is in full effect, and with 46% K-12 schools out and another 88% colleges on break according to Comscore. While it’s clearTop Gun: Maverickhas pulled in those older audiences who were reluctant during the pandemic, Paramount is jazzed by the sequel’s younger draw given that the 18-24 quad was the pic’s largest audience segment over the weekend at 21%.
Among Wednesdays in May,Top Gun: Maverickranks fourth afterStar Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace($28.5M, May 19, 1999),Avengers: Endgame($25.5M, May 1, 2019), andAvengers: Infinity War($17M, May 2, 2018).Top Gun 2‘s Wednesday easily beats the first Wednesday of Disney/Marvel’sDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesswhich did $9.1M on May 11.