Top Gun: Maverick refuses to stop making money
Tom Cruise’s big, fast, smile-inducing blockbuster soared past $900 million today
The theatergoing public and the motion picture industry are ready to name Tom Cruise “president of movies.” After weathering a decade of bad press, including the Oprah couch thing, various Scientology controversies, and Knight And Day, Cruise is back on top, and so are the movies. How’d he do it? Cold, hard jingoism, of course. The people can’t get enough of America’s war machines. Plus, those planes go real fast, causing many audience members to turn their heads and say, “Wow, look at ‘em go!”
But despite seemingly stiff competition at the box office this week, Cruise and his F-18 flew Top Gun: Maverick to even higher heights this week: $900 million at the global box office. That number would be even larger if the film were released in Russia and China, but it’s still nipping at the heels of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which sits pretty at $950 million.