Paramount Pictures' movie “Top Gun: Maverick” soared past $400 million at the U.S domestic box office and surpassed the blockbuster of the year, "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness".
Tom Cruise’s patriotic blockbuster now sits comfortably as the highest-grossing movie of the year stateside. becoming the second movie after "Spider-Man: No Way Home", to pass the $400 million domestic benchmark since the coronavirus pandemic.
Moreover, the sequel to 1986’s “Top Gun” has allocated $362 million at the global box office, taking the total to a massive $783.8 million.
“Top Gun: Maverick” hit theaters on May 27 and saw Cruise and Val Kilmer reprise their roles from the original movie.
It also starred Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris.
Joseph Kosinski directed from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie as well as a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks.
The $170 million-budgeted movie picks up 30 years after the events of the original “Top Gun” and features Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (played by Cruise) now working at the prestigious United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program that he attended in the original.
He is forced to navigate the increasingly complex world of drone warfare as he mentors a new generation of Navy pilots.
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