It’s astounding: “Maverick-2022-movie-posters/”>Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount), then everything else.Most box-office reporting this weekend focuses on the unquestionably stunning results for Tom Cruise’s sequel.
Through 10 days of domestic play, it’s grossed 190 million (357 million worldwide).
A second-weekend drop of only 32 percent portends that it will go much, much higher and has the potential to become the highest-grossing 2022 release.Its performance deserves all the accolades — but without the misleading reporting.
“Maverick” will likely be Cruise’s biggest hit, and among Paramount’s 10 top performers.
But unless one thinks ticket prices remained unchanged for the last 40 years — or ever — it’s getting undue credit for box-office records.Its second-weekend fall is indeed very small, but not the smallest; “Avatar” (which would have grossed 100 million adjusted in its second weekend) fell less than two percent.“Maverick” has an advantage that made this more likely.
Most films that open over 100 million are sequels,
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