Top Gun: Maverick has become the 12th highest-grossing movie of all time, after a $14.55 million weekend at the worldwide box office saw its global total rise to $1.403 billion.
It currently sits between Frozen II ($1.45 billion), and Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.402 billion).
Of its $1.403 billion (about Rs. 11,200 crore) total, Top Gun: Maverick has collected over $683.3 million In the US and Canada, with the remaining $720 million coming from the rest of the world.
And that’s without playing in China or Russia, which are two major movie markets.
Outside of the US and Canada, top-earning territories for Top Gun: Maverick include the United Kingdom ($95 million), Japan ($82 million), Korea ($62 million), Australia ($60 million), and France ($52.8 million).
Maverick is the sequel to 1986 super-hit film Top Gun, which starred Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and Val Kilmer, and was among one of the blockbuster hits of that year.
Top Gun: Maverick has also surpassed Titanic as Paramount studio’s most popular movie in the US, though its $2.2 billion worldwide gross is far cry for the Cruise-starrer.
Yet, thanks to stellar word-of-mouth and repeat customers, Maverick continues to defy the odds. And there’s a chance the movie will continue to fly higher on box office charts.
Top Gun: Maverick is likely to continue selling tickets because the film does not have a ton of competition on the horizon internationally.
It’ll be fairly desolate at the US box office until November, when Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens in theatres.
