‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has earnt more than half a billion dollars at the box office internationally

OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has earnt more than half a billion dollars internationally.
The hotly anticipated sequel to the 1986 action flick – which sees returning stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer along with a whole host of new faces to the franchise such as Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly – experienced another massive weekend after earning $86 million, taking the total international revenue to $548.6 million.
In the US, the Joseph Kosinski movie took home $291.6, making the movie Tom Cruise’s highest ever grossing movie in North America and Canada, beating out his previous record holder, Steven Spielberg’s 2005 ‘War of the Worlds’, which earnt $235 million.
Internationally, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is the 59-year-old actor’s fifth biggest earner, trailing behind ‘War of the Worlds’, ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’, ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’, which have all made more than $548.6.
As it ventured into its second weekend at the cinema, US audiences allowed the film to earn another $86 million, marking the smallest drop – 32 per cent – from an opening weekend.
Following its release, the movie – which sees Tom return as Lieutenant Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell to show a whole new team of fighter pilot how its done – has smashed a number of records, such as the biggest Memorial Day opener in history.
Val – who reprises his role as Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky – admitted to be “very moved” by the final cut.
The 62-year-old actor said: “I was very moved the first time I saw it. Almost 40 years is a long time for a reunion. We laughed all day. Tom is great and surprisingly funny!”

Source: IconInsider.com

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