Top Gun box office: Maverick soars past $800M to become Tom Cruise’s biggest global hit

Couches beware! Tom Cruise might soon jump upon you. What’s the cause for celebration, you ask? The Top Gun box office totals, that’s what! Top Gun: Maverick has become Tom Cruise‘s biggest earner at the worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation.

After the Thursday box office closed, Paramount and Skydance reported that Maverick had earned $806.3 million in ticket sales. So far, the film has managed to pull in $422.1 million domestically and $384.2 million internationally. With the new total, Maverick has defeated Cruise’s previous box office barn burner, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which earned $791 million worldwide.

In addition to Cruise’s star power and nostalgia for the original Top Gun, Maverick has received tremendous word of mouth from fans. The Top Gun sequel has a 96 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and an A+ CinemaScore, making it one of the best-reviewed films of the summer. Analysts predict the Top Gun: Maverick box office earnings could bank more than $900 million before flying out of theaters and onto Paramount+ and physical media.

After being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Top Gun: Maverick has proven that no delay could keep it from becoming a runaway success. The film’s totals also show that Cruise remains one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars and that crowds will line up to see his latest death-defying acts on the silver screen. With two more Mission: Impossible movies on the way in 2023 and 2024 and an untitled Space X project in the works, Cruise might as well build a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin for all the cash he’ll make.