Now, Paramount has a major franchise they can move forward on. It’s a lesson to all you major studios inebriated on streaming that theatrical is king and such assets for the big screen should be protected. The Tom Cruise sequel was always meant to be paired with the hot weather season and barbeque. Waiting is everything, and the hopscotching of Top Gun 2 around the calendar –at one point Independence Day 2021, then Thanksgiving last year, and then now– has truly paid off. Many know that Top Gun 2 was put into the Paramount pipeline during the Jim G era, however, we need to raise a glass to Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins for not falling prey to the industry’s seduction of streaming, and taking what was always a prized tentpole and going day-and-date with it on Paramount+. With Top Gun 2, Paramount flies to $585M for 2022, which will make it the No. Despite all your smart co-financing, your diverse product outside of Bad Guys, hasn’t been winning). Not a lot of studios can exclaim that (sorry, Universal. 1 opening of 2022 after Scream, Jackass Forever, The Lost City and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a slate built on robust diversity of winning product. Speaking of Paramount, that studio is on a dynamite upswing this year. The three-day stands at $126.7M, which is still second best among Friday-Sunday starts for Paramount after Iron Man 2 ($128.1M).ĮntTelligence reports that 11.6M moviegoers have seen Top Gun 2 to date, which is third biggest attendance during the pandemic era (since Q2 2020) after Spider-Man: No Way Home (20.6M) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (14M) for an opening weekend. Top Gun: Maverick made $36.7M yesterday, -3% from its $38M Saturday. Mojo separated out that $13.2M At World’s End previews into a separate Thursday opening day, while Comscore rolled that amount into At World’s End’s seven-day gross - not its opening, capisce? However, given how previews have been included in these blockbuster openings of late, it only made sense to measure this race by an apples-to-apples slide rule.
Forever, Box Office Mojo and Comscore showed At World’s End with a 4-day start of $139.8M. Over the weekend, debate raged on as to whether those $13.2M At World’s End previews (which reportedly started at 8PM) should be included in that pic’s 4-day opening that gross was recorded at a time before studios began rolling previews into their weekend openings. No more, those bragging rights go to Paramount now. 'Top Gun: Maverick' Review: Tom Cruise Is Back Soaring In What May Be The Role Of His Career DisneyĪt World’s End’s four-day holiday opening of $139.8M was further puffed by Thursday previews which got that third Pirates to a $153M stateside start, a Memorial Day record Disney held for the last 15 years.
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