At long last, Tom Cruise is entering the 100 million opening club.Playing in 4,735 locations, the widest theatrical release in domestic box office history, “Maverick-2022-movie-posters/”>Top Gun: Maverick” is projected to earn 150 million over the holiday weekend.
On a three-day scale, Paramount is predicting a 123 million haul.
That’s easily a new record debut for Cruise, whose previous best — a 64.8 million opening for 2005’s “War of the Worlds” — is getting left in the dust.The legacy sequel to Tony Scott’s swoony 1986 original kicked off with a bang, drawing a 51.8 million opening day, including 19.3 million in Thursday previews.
That’s a record for Paramount Pictures, outdoing the 51.2 million opening day of 2010’s “Iron Man 2.” “Maverick,” which was co-financed and co-produced by Skydance, originally carried a projected opening between 85 million and 100 million over the long weekend, though momentum has only grown since.“Top Gun: Maverick” was originally set to premiere way back
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