After a 36-year wait, Tom Cruise’s sequel Top Gun: Maverick has finally reached a whopping $ 19.3 million in previews.
This is the highest-grossing review in the history of Paramount Pictures and the highest-grossing review of Memorial Day in history; and, of course, the best for Cruz. Early forecasts for the weekend were $ 80-100 million in four days and a high octane start as this could easily lead to the best opening of Remembrance Day weekend, surpassing the 4-day pirates of 2007 by 139.8 million Caribbean Dollars: At World’s End.
Undoubtedly, Top Gun: Maverick also aims to be the best start to Tom Cruise’s career, easily leaving behind his $ 3.8-day 2005 World War 3.
Everything works in favor of Top Gun 2: This is the widest edition in 4735 cinemas; has 5 out of 5 stars in ComScore / Screen Engine’s PostTrak with 96% positive and a huge 84% definite recommendations. PLFs (31%) and Imax (21%) together account for 52% of pre-ticket sales. Imax alone counted $ 4.1 million in previews, the best for Paramount’s exhibitor, a Tom Cruise movie, and the ten best Imax results of all time.
In addition, earning money for Top Gun 2 is a 97% Certified Fresh score for Rotten Tomatoes after a month of turbulent world premieres and an ongoing 99% audience rating of RT.
The previous big preview for Paramount was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2009 with $ 16 million, which was on Tuesday and led to $ 62 million on Wednesday (reviews accounted for 25% of that figure). The best previews on Thursday for the opening of the film on Remembrance Day weekend actually belong to Disney’s Star Wars: A Solo Story, which grossed $ 14.1 million but raised only 40% of the $ 35.3 million the first Friday. The film disappointed fans and nevertheless led to a 4-day opening of the $ 103 million opening ceremony.
Previews began Thursday at 3 p.m. for the Paramount / Skydance feature. In addition, on Tuesday there was a “Top Gun” with first-class large format, Imax and Dolby screens, which opened their curtains at 19:00. The above figure consists of ticket sales for Tuesday and Thursday.
Top Gun: Maverick spoils Cruz’s previous preview recording on Thursday, which is Mission: Impossible – Fallout from 2018, which won $ 6 million.
Top Gun: Maverick means a little extra for the show and the studios in general: Aside from the older boys he visits, which Cruz always attracts (Fallout attracted 41% of men over 25), the hope is that this sequel will play widely, from under 25 to Cruz fans who hung his posters in their bedrooms in the ’80s. Last night we saw unweighted turnout from 57% of boys to 43% of girls. Thursday night Fallout regained 26% of its first day on Friday of $ 22.8 million before continuing to make $ 61.2 million.
20th Century Studios / The Bob’s Burgers The Disney movie received $ 1.5 million in previews from shows that began at 5 p.m. The photo is 86% fresh in Rotten Tomatoes with a current audience rating of 96%. A four-day launch of $ 10 million to $ 14 million is expected at 3,425 locations in the United States / Canada.
Among the regularly ranked films yesterday, Disney / Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” grossed $ 2.4 million in 4,534 theaters, -14% from Wednesday for a three-week total of $ 354.4 million.
Focus Features Abbey Downton Abbey: A New Era was second with $ 1.3 million, -11% from Wednesday for $ 22.6 million for the first week in 3,820 seats.
Universal / DreamWorks Animation’s bad guys were third yesterday with $ 576,000, + 1%, in 3,705 seats and a five-week total of $ 76.7 million.
Everything Everywhere and All on the A24, reserved for 1576, posted a ninth Thursday of $ 426K, -16%, and a current amount of $ 54.3 million.
Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 raised about $ 330,000, -4%, up from 2,943 for a seven-week total of $ 182.6 million.
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