Tom Cruise’s star-spangled blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” capped off Memorial Day weekend with a box office debut for the record books.
The sequel, which sees Cruise return to the cockpit after 36 years, collected 156 million in its first four days of release.Those ticket sales were enough to overtake Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which launched with 153 million over the long weekend in 2007, as the biggest Memorial Day debut in history.Paramount and Skydance had originally expected “Top Gun: Maverick” to finish the long weekend with 151 million, but the film had a better-than-expected turnout on Sunday, pushing the three-day haul to 126 million.
(Sunday’s estimates had the three-day tally at 124 million.) The movie is playing 4,732 North American cinemas, the widest release of all time.In a promising sign for summer movie season, “Top Gun: Maverick” — without the help of costumed heroes or fantastical spells — landed one
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