Top Gun: Maverick is one of the defining summer blockbusters of 2022 and it’s breaking records left and right. About a month after the sequel to the 80s action classic hit the theatres, it crossed the $1 billion mark at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing movie of Tom Cruise’s career.
Top Gun: Maverick is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 so far, overtaking Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but that’s not its only achievement. It’s also only the second film to gross $1 billion in the pandemic era after Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Top Gun: Maverick is Cruise’s first movie to ever cross the $1 billion mark at the box office. This makes it the highest-grossing film of his career so far – the record was previously held by Mission: Impossible – Fallout with $791.1 million earned worldwide.
In addition to Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. It takes place 36 years after the original movie, and it shows Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell returning to the U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program to train a group of young pilots.
Top Gun: Maverick premiered on May 27, and it will later stream on Paramount+, but its streaming debut is yet to be set.
