In the three months since “Maverick-2022-movie-posters/”>Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) opened, its box office performance domestic (658 million) and foreign (674 million) deserved nearly all the hype.
And when it reaches 660 million domestic, “Maverick” will — in unadjusted numbers — become the biggest-grossing Paramount release in its history, replacing the 1997 release of “Titanic.”This is where the hype train comes to a halt.
If you believe “Maverick” has grossed more than “Titanic,” you could also buy a home in Los Angeles today for 180,000 — the average home price in 1997.
Inflation changes things and “Titanic” earned its spot when the average ticket price was 4.59 — half of the current average, last calculated in 2019 as 9.17.“Top Gun: Maverick” should end its domestic run with 700 million-725 million domestic gross.
Based on adjusted figures, that would it land somewhere between #4 and 7 among all Paramount releases, with “Titanic,” “The Ten Commandments,” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” safely ahead; “The Godfather,” “Forrest Gump,
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