Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

No reason to rush the streaming release with the insane box office legs it's having. Might even be playing well into August.

[LordoftheRings]

Absolutely ^ ... and bring it back on the IMAX screens.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

No reason to rush the streaming release with the insane box office legs it's having. Might even be playing well into August.

I want my 4K disc in time for Santa though!

[John1701D]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

I do really like Rogue Nation and Fallout but for me Ghost Protocol is still the high point of the M:I series, even if the 3rd act is a bit tamer than the first 2 acts.

Ghost Protocol for me as well. Seeing this scene in IMAX I thought I was gonna vomit.

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

Shame the Ghost Protocol IMAX footage still hasn't been released on home video.

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Absolutely ^ ... and bring it back on the IMAX screens.

With Bullet Train being the only IMAX movie slated for August I could definitely see it being brought back that month.

[filmbuffTX]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

With Bullet Train being the only IMAX movie slated for August I could definitely see it being brought back that month.

E.T. will have the IMAX screens for a week beginning August 12th.

[Eschenpod]

Just saw this in the theater last night, five stars.

[sandman slim]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I love me some Rogue Nation but Fallout felt curiously hollow, like the whole "let's dream up some action sequences and write our way around them" thing finally caught up with them. Haven't seen Fallout again since that first viewing mind you, so I may feel more favourable towards it a few years later.

How dare you say that about my daddy!

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

There's the undeniable nostalgia factor, as well. Most people either watched the original in the 80s or have parents who did. Nostalgia also helped propel The Force Awakens to great BO heights.

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia.

Not even sure it's down to simple nostalgia for Top Gun as much as it is nostalgia for a movie that appeals to older cinemagoers in general, driven (flown?) by one of the last great movie stars and which is not based on a fookin comic book. No need to know about this and that going into it, I'd say that people don't even need to have seen the first film to get a great deal of enjoyment from this movie as it still had a very decent chunk of youngsters making up the demographics when it opened (like 21% were 18-21).

If covid didn't happen and this opened as normal I don't think it'd be doing the business that it is right now. It's a fine film so wouldn't have flopped, and the IMAX tax would've added a few simoleons in any case, but modern Tom Crooze movies simply don't go over this big outside of Mission Impossible, and even then those grosses have been holding steady since Ghost Protocol rather than any particular MI being a breakout hit. But the older demo have been waiting for something to tempt them out of their cinematic hibernation, something not even Mr Bond could manage fully, but Crooze and Kosinski have gone and done it.

On a completely different but still box-office-related note, this is another flick that will rake in a billion dollars without the aid of China. Huh.

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[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

I know, I can't help it

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by kylor

You're late to the party pal; the fight is over.
Buy a ticket and wait in line with the rest for the next episode ... Top Gun 3 3D IMAX

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

Domestic (52.7%)
$466,168,000

International (47.3%)
$419,000,000

Worldwide
$885,168,000

Next Tuesday it opens in South-Korea.

New Monday update:

Domestic (52.5%)
$466,168,000

International (47.5%)
$421,400,000

Worldwide
$887,568,000

[kylor]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

You're late to the party pal

[CreasyBear]

The cringe.

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

IMAX... and 4DX

It is the only way I'm going to go out of my way to see this in a theater, not wasting my time with a digital screen, i rather wait till i watch it on my home tv at that point.

Is it difficult or something to change films for an imax screen or is this just sheer laziness from the theaters part? The few around me in a 100 mile radius all are playing Jurassic Park, all times of the day, all days of the week.

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

AFAIK, that kind of stuff is negotiated far in advance. TG2 was never expected to hold on to premium screens (except for ScreenX) for more than two weeks.

Too bad, i don't think i have any screen-x theaters within 100+ miles of me. I think Boston or NYC is the closet place.

[Creed]

IMAX Twitter account is hinting at a possible IMAX rerelease.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

[Show spoiler]

Confirmed for one evening show starting the 24th.

[Show spoiler]Get ready for this baby to break the $2b barrier!!!

Please. Stop.

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