Post by jdv on Sept 8, 2022 15:21:44 GMT -5
TOP GUN 2 became the first movie in history to win both the Memorial Day weekend and the the Labor Day weekend - and as I predicted 2 years ago, it might have just saved Hollywood:
The Paramount film, featuring Tom Cruise's return to the skies as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell decades after the hit 1986 original, won the domestic box office over the Labor Day weekend -- bringing in $7.9 million for the four-day holiday.
That makes "Maverick" the only film in history to take the top spot on Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend.
It's just one of the film's notable financial achievements. It crossed the $700 million mark in ticket sales, passing Marvel's "Black Panther" to become the fifth highest-grossing film in North American history, and has made $1.4 billion worldwide since opening in May.
But "Maverick" fans kept coming back to theaters throughout the summer, so much so that the film made at least one million dollars a day for 75 straight days.
That type of financial longevity not only speaks to the film's quality -- it garnered a 96% score on review site Rotten Tomatoes -- but serves as an old-school success story at a time when theaters really needed one.
"There are summer blockbusters, and then there's "Top Gun: Maverick."
The Paramount film, featuring Tom Cruise's return to the skies as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell decades after the hit 1986 original, won the domestic box office over the Labor Day weekend -- bringing in $7.9 million for the four-day holiday.
That makes "Maverick" the only film in history to take the top spot on Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend.
It's just one of the film's notable financial achievements. It crossed the $700 million mark in ticket sales, passing Marvel's "Black Panther" to become the fifth highest-grossing film in North American history, and has made $1.4 billion worldwide since opening in May.
But "Maverick" fans kept coming back to theaters throughout the summer, so much so that the film made at least one million dollars a day for 75 straight days.
That type of financial longevity not only speaks to the film's quality -- it garnered a 96% score on review site Rotten Tomatoes -- but serves as an old-school success story at a time when theaters really needed one.
"There are not enough adjectives to describe the importance of the box office performance of 'Top Gun: Maverick' to the industry, having come at a time when naysayers remained skeptical of the ability of the movie theater to draw audiences," Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore (SCOR), told CNN Business.
"Truly a watershed event."
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St Cruise has done it again.
