’Top Gun: Maverick’ heading for 151m four-day Memorial Day weekend, sets new record for Tom Cruise

Action film delivers after multiple Covid-related delays.After multiple Covid delays and last week’s European premiere in Cannes preceded by a show-stopping flyover above the Palais des festival, Top Gun: Maverick is heading for an estimated 151m four-day North American Memorial Day opening weekend and has set a new record for Tom Cruise.Paramount opened the tentpole in 4,732 theatres and the session included an estimated 124m over the Friday to Sunday portion of the US Memorial Day holiday.

Remarkably this becomes the first film of Cruise’s career to open on more than 100m and easily overtook his previous

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