Launched in theaters on Thursday in the United States, the Blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick starring Tom Cruise achieved a meteoric takeoff at the box office with receipts of 19.3 million US dollars, including 4.1 million on Imax screens.
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According varietyit is the highest score for a Paramount film released in preview and the highest box office for a preview of the very celebrated Memorial Day weekend (in memory of the combatants of the American army ) whose holiday will be on Monday in the United States.
always according to variety, the film could become the first project with Tom Cruise registering a box office of at least US$100 million. Screenings, based on positive reviews (The Press gave four stars) suggests a revenue estimate between 85 and 100 million.
Originally, the film by Joseph Kosinski, a long-awaited sequel to the first opus released in 1986, was to be released in the summer of 2020. But COVID got the better of Maverick Mitchell and his F-18 Super Hornets fighter jets .
The film recently had its world premiere, out of competition, at the Cannes Film Festival.