(Los Angeles) Top Gun: Maverickthe sequel 36 years later to Tom Cruise’s successful airplane film, soared as soon as it was released at the head of the American box office, according to provisional figures published on Sunday by the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations.
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Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, where Tom Cruise received an honorary Palme d’Or, the Paramount/Skydance blockbuster grossed $151 million in the United States and Canada according to these estimates over four days, from Friday to Monday, holiday for Americans celebrating Memorial Day.
Following Top Gun was critically acclaimed. Tom Cruise still plays Navy test pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, now a captain, who trains to bomb a rogue country’s uranium enrichment plant.
The film benefits from an extensive cast, with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller and Jon Hamm, while the veteran of Top GunVal Kilmer, makes a brief appearance there in the role ofThe Icemana key character in the first installment.
With this supersonic entry, Top Gun: Maverick dethrones Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latest production from Marvel Studios, leading three weekends in a row, and which still totals 21.1 million in revenue from Friday to Monday. The sequel to the adventures of the neurosurgeon turned sorcerer, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, had the best launch of the year, with 187 million dollars.
In third position (15 million dollars) lands the animated film Bob’s Burgersbased on the American television series of the same name, which tells the funny adventures of a family running a hamburger restaurant.
With $7.5 million, Downton Abbey: A New Era ranks fourth, ahead of The Bad Guysoutlaw animals who try to become nice ($6.1 million).