forget breaking the sound barrier tom cruise just flew past a major career milestone the 59yearold superstar just got his first 100 million opening weekend with top gun maverick in its first three days in north american theatres the longintheworks sequel earned an estimated 124 million in ticket sales paramount pictures said sunday including international showings its worldwide total is 248 millionread alsotop gun box office collection day 2 the tom cruise starrer collects rs 4 croretom cruise has returned to play lt pete mitchell aka maverick in top gun maverick after 36 long years the film was shot well over in 2019 however the release was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic now the film has hit the theatres on may 27 2022top gun maverick box office collection day 1 the tom cruise starrer collects rs 25 croretom cruise has returned to the top gun franchise after 36 years the hollywood star reprising his role as lt pete mitchell aka maverick in the film the film is a sequel to the 1986 hit movie and was shot over two years ago the release of the film was delayed due to the covid pandemickate middleton prince william join tom cruise for top gun maverickthe duke and duchess of cambridge prince william and kate middleton on thursday evening hit the red carpet for the uk premiere of top gun maverick alongside its lead actor tom cruiseits a supersonic start for a film that still has the wideopen skies of memorial day itself to rake in even more cash according to projections and estimates by mondays close top gun maverick will likely have over 150 million these results are ridiculously overthetop fantastic said chris aronson paramounts president of domestic distribution im happy for everyone im happy for the company for tom for the filmmakers though undeniably one of the biggest stars in the world perhaps even the last movie star according to various headlines cruise is not known for massive blockbuster openings before maverick his biggest domestic debut was in 2005 with steven spielbergs war of the worlds which opened to 64 million after that it was mission impossible fallout with 61 million in 2018 its not that his films dont make money in the long run they just arent enormously frontloaded top gun maverick had an extremely long journey to get to the theatres the sequel to the late tony scotts top gun which was released in 1986 was originally slated to open in the summer of 2020 its marketing campaign technically started back in july 2019 the pandemic got in the way of those plans however and it was delayed several times directed by joseph kosinski produced by jerry bruckheimer and coproduced and cofinanced by skydance the sequel reportedly cost 152 million to make but even as the months and years went by and many other companies chose to compromise on hybrid releases cruise and paramount didnt waver on their desire to have a major