{"id":31201,"date":"2022-08-06T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/top-gun-maverick-box-office-three-lessons-from-tom-cruises-300-million-debut\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:49:21","slug":"top-gun-maverick-box-office-three-lessons-from-tom-cruises-300-million-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/top-gun-maverick-box-office-three-lessons-from-tom-cruises-300-million-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 Box Office: Three Lessons From Tom Cruise\u2019s $300 Million Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise in &#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217;Paramount and Skydance With rave reviews, an A+ Cinemascore grade and a jaw-dropping $160.5 million four-day domestic gross and $300 million worldwide as of yesterday, Skydance and Paramount\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick is messing up everyone\u2019s summer movie betting pool and making me look quite stupid. To be fair, the latter isn\u2019t hard to do, even as I\u2019m sure that Top Gun: Maverick would have grossed quite a bit less (even while possibly still becoming a rate-of-return success) had it opened in summer 2020 in a non-Covid world as just another seasonal franchise exploitation\/80\u2019s nostalgia tentpole. The key was that, yes, audiences really did want to see Tom Cruise *as* Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell in a Top Gun sequel just as they wanted to see Harrison Ford *as* Dr. Henry \u201cIndiana\u201d Jones Jr. In the summer of 2008 nearly a decade after Ford\u2019s last non-IP opener (What Lies Beneath in summer 2000). What does this all mean? Well&#8230; Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in &#8216;Uncharted&#8217;Sony Tom Cruise is the new Tom Holland: Yes, Tom Cruise has been a relative \u201cmovie star\u201d since Risky Business in 1983, and yes it was the first Top Gun (opening a year after his first real flop, Ridley Scott\u2019s Legend) that turned him into a pop culture icon\/global superstar. However, over the last 15 years, Cruise\u2019s biggest hits, by a mile, have been Mission: Impossible movies whereb&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Forbes<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottmendelson\/2022\/05\/31\/top-gun-maverick-tom-cruise-box-office-three-key-lessons\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise in &#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217;Paramount and Skydance With rave reviews, an A+ Cinemascore grade and a jaw-dropping $160.5 million four-day domestic gross and $300 million worldwide as of yesterday, Skydance and Paramount\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick is messing up everyone\u2019s summer movie betting pool and making me look quite stupid. 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