Top Gun: Maverick is now Tom Cruise's biggest movie ever

Top Gun: Maverick
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Tom Cruise has done it – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Top Gun: Maverick is officially the star’s biggest box office hit yet after a record-breaking second weekend of release. The movie earned another at the domestic box of🍰fice after securing the biggest Memorial Day Weekend openiꦆng ever. This makes it one of the top 10 films in history to gross this highly on a second weekend.

The latest figures mean the long-awaited sequel has taken $291.6 million domestically, which is the biggest of Cruise’s career. And by a long way too as it smashed his previous highest-grossing movie, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The War of the Worlds, which sits at $234 million. 

Meanwhile, in global box office sales, the movie is currently sitting at $548 million. This puts it in fifth place among Cruise’s global box office releases, sitting behind War of the Worlds, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mis♑sion: Impossible – Rogue Nation, 澳洲幸运5开奖🌞号码历史查询:Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

Cruise took to to thank fans for supporting the film after its initial release. He wrote: "Thank you toꦓ everyone who saw #TopGun: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend."

Top Gun: Maverick sees Cruise back as pilot Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell as he returns to coach a new bunch of aviators through a seemingly impossible mission. Among them is Rooster (Miles Teller), t𓂃he son of his late par🎀tner Goose, who forces him to address some ghosts fro𝓀m his past.

Want more Top Gun? Check out our chat with the stars on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:filming those flight sequences. If you’re already planning your next cinema outing, we’ve also compiled a guide to all of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming 2022 movie releases announced.

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