After 36 years, Tom Cruise’s daredevil Navy flyboy Pete Mitchell apparently still felt the need…the need for speed.
And so, too, did nostalgic moviegoers who flooded the nation’s multiplexes over Memorial Day weekend to propel the star’s long-delayed sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, into the box-office stratosphere with a 124 million domestic haul between Friday and Sunday.
When Monday’s receipts are factored in, look for that total to climb to 151 million—making the Paramount sequel the strongest debut of Cruise’s storied career by far.
Meanwhile, 20th Century Studios’ The Bob’s Burgers Movie bowed over the holiday frame in third place with 12.6 million.Originally slated to open in the summer of 2020, Top Gun: Maverick was always a big bet for the studio.
Not just because of its sky-high 170 million price tag, but also because it was gambling on an aging audience’s memories of a film that hit
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