It’s official, everyone – Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, has surpassed the $1 billion mark in global box offices, making it Paramount Pictures’ highest-grossing global film since the studio’s founding in 1912. In the six weeks since its release, the long-awaited sequel to 1986’s Top Gun has pulled in over $600 million in domestic sales and nearly equal that for international audiences, boosting the film past other 2022 favorites like Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
Top Gun: Maverick features Tom Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a hotshot Navy pilot who originally entered the Naval Fighters Weapon School, aka TOPGUN, as a young Lieutenant alongside his best friend and radio operator Nick “Goose” Bradshaw. The Top Gun sequel takes place thirty years after the original film, with Maverick – now a Captain – forced to take an instructor position at TOPGUN at the behest of Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, Maverick’s close friend and former rival. Maverick is entrusted with the training of a new batch of pilot recruits which includes Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, Goose’s son, who blames Maverick for his father’s death.
‘Top Gun: Maverick’: A Look at The Numbers
Since its release on May 27th, 2022, Top Gun: Maverick has earned about $606 million at domestic box offices, putting it just past Titanic (1997) at $600 million, according to Axios; along with that, the film has also earned $602 million overseas in the global box office, putting it at a total of $1.2 billion worldwide and surpassing Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) at $1.1 billion, according to Deadline. While Top Gun: Maverick still has to beat out Titanic in all-time sales, with the latter having earned $2.2 billion worldwide since its release, it’s worth noting that Titanic has been out for 25 years. Top Gun: Maverick, on the other hand, has barely been out for a month and is still expected to grow.
Aside from earning the top spot at Paramount, Top Gun: Maverick also earns its place as Tom Cruise’s highest-earning movie ever and the only one to ever cross the one-billion line, which is impressive for a man whose career has spanned forty years and included all of the Mission: Impossible movies. Behind Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise’s next-highest film is Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) with $787 million, followed by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) with $694 million, according to TheNumbers.
Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski, is currently available on Paramount, Paramount+, and in theaters everywhere.