{"id":103199,"date":"2022-05-31T01:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/looks-like-top-gun-maverick-will-break-a-box-office-record-set-by-a-big-johnny-depp-hit\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T01:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:55:59","slug":"looks-like-top-gun-maverick-will-break-a-box-office-record-set-by-a-big-johnny-depp-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/looks-like-top-gun-maverick-will-break-a-box-office-record-set-by-a-big-johnny-depp-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Top Gun: Maverick Will Break A Box Office Record Set By A Big Johnny Depp Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Looks-Like-Top-Gun-Maverick-Will-Break-A-Box-Office.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>This past weekend, Tom Cruise did something that he&#8217;s never done before in his career: open a film with a domestic total over $100 million. Audiences across the country have been feeling the need for speed since this past Thursday when Joseph Kosinski&#8217;s <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> launched in theaters, and it is clearly going to be one of the most successful movies that Cruise has ever made.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just personal milestones that the popular sequel is reaching, however. As the latest box office numbers roll in, it appears that <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> has also set a new high bar for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, surpassing a record that has stood in Hollywood for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"><\/aside>\n<p>When Gore Verbinski&#8217;s <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u2019s End<\/em> arrived in theaters on May 25, 2007, the popularity of both the series and the star power of Johnny Depp led to a domestic total of $153 million after just four days. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/box-office\/box-office-top-gun-maverick-memorial-day-record-1235281049\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/box-office\/box-office-top-gun-maverick-memorial-day-record-1235281049\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>, <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> is set to eclipse that massive haul. In the time between Thursday night preview screenings and showings on Sunday, it made $126 million (up from the estimated $124 million that was reported on Sunday morning), and by the end of today it&#8217;s expected that the sequel will have a gross of $156 million from ticket sales in the United States and Canada alone.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the ranking remains unaffected if you account for inflation. That $153 million from 2007 is equivalent to $213.3 million today&#8230; but that&#8217;s not really how modern box office record keeping tracks things. It should also be noted that <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u2019s End<\/em> ultimately grossed $961 million at the box office, and while <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> will end up making a lot of money before it is done playing on the big screen, there is a zero percent chance that it gets anywhere near that number.<\/p>\n<p>All told \u2013 including figures from overseas \u2013 the new Tom Cruise film has thus far made $248 million, which is already enough money for it to rank 17th at the box office among movies where Cruise plays a starring role. Another $10 million will push it into 16th place, surpassing James Mangold&#8217;s <em>Knight and Day<\/em> from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>If there continues to be synchronicity between the ticket sales both domestically and abroad for <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>, it&#8217;s realistic that it could end up making north of $700 million globally. That would allow it to compete with Christopher McQuarrie&#8217;s <em>Mission: Impossible &#8211; Fallout<\/em> as the most successful Cruise film of all time (the action-packed sequel earned $787.2 million while playing on the big screen in 2018). It&#8217;s fitting success given that the feature is among Tom Cruise&#8217;s best movies.<\/p>\n<p>The CinemaBlend box office column will certainly be keeping track of <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>&#8216;s progress in the weeks to come, and to get a glimpse at the big summer competition that is on the horizon, check out our 2022 Movie Release Calendar. You can find local screenings of the blockbuster on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgunmovie.com\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.topgunmovie.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Tom Cruise did something that he&#8217;s never done before in his career: open a film with a domestic total over $100 million. Audiences across the country have been feeling the need for speed since this past Thursday when Joseph Kosinski&#8217;s Top Gun: Maverick launched in theaters, and it is clearly going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":103200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1653940561_Looks-Like-Top-Gun-Maverick-Will-Break-A-Box-Office.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}