NEW YORK — The high-flying “Top Gun: Maverick” continued to soar in its second weekend, dropping simply 32% from its opening with $86 million in ticket gross sales, in accordance with studio estimates Sunday.
The Paramount Pictures launch, with Tom Cruise reprising his position from the 1986 unique, is holding steadier than any movie of its form has earlier than. Its modest drop — 50-65% is extra typical for blockbusters — is the smallest decline for a film that opened above $100 million. “Top Gun: Maverick” debuted with $124 million final weekend, scoring Cruise’s largest opening but.
Overseas, director Joseph Kosinski’s movie is performing even higher. In 64 abroad markets, “Top Gun: Maverick” dipped solely 20% in its second weekend with $81.7 million.
Riding stellar phrase of mouth, terrific evaluations and a worldwide promotional tour, “Top Gun: Maverick” has already grossed $548.6 million worldwide, making it simply one the most important hits of Cruise’s profession. With home ticket gross sales at $291.6 million and counting, the “Top Gun” sequel already ranks because the 59-year-old’s greatest performer.
While “Top Gun: Maverick” is unlikely to match the $1.89 billion worldwide of Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the most important box-office smash of the pandemic, Cruise and firm have been hailed for main the ultimate push within the restoration of film theaters.
But whereas “No Way Home” had little-to-no big-budget competitors by way of January, “Top Gun: Maverick” kicks off a string of extra carefully packed summer time films. Next weekend, Universal Pictures debuts “Jurassic World: Dominion,” the end result of the dinosaur franchise trilogy of sequels. The week after that, the Walt Disney Co. releases “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear,” the primary Pixar launch to open in theaters in additional than two years.
“Jurassic World: Dominion” bought a head begin over the weekend in 15 worldwide markets, the place the Colin Trevorrow-directed movie grossed $55.5 million. Universal mentioned that was consistent with the earlier franchise entries. “Jurassic World” made $1.67 billion in 2015, whereas its 2018 follow-up, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” grossed $1.31 billion.
In U.S. and Canadian theaters, no new large launch challenged “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Vikram,” an Indian Tamil-language motion thriller, opened with $1.8 million in 460 theaters.
Fresh off its premiere on the Cannes Film Festival, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” opened with $1.1 million in 773 theaters. The Neon launch, starring Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, is the Canadian auteur’s first movie in eight years.
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