Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[Frank TJ Mackey]

Saw where this is at $576 million at the BO. Pretty ****img wild this will be at $600 million this weekend.

It’s so big now, I wonder when it will drop on PVOD.

I’m guessing August.

[LordoftheRings]

Top grossing movies of all time (worldwide & domestic)

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● Red dot: 'Top Gun: Maverick' ranking as of yesterday
● Blue dot: I'm pretty sure it will surpass...88% (my own predict)
● Black dot: It might even surpass...66% (my own predict)

Best of luck Maverick, you can do it

[Lee A Stewart]

Those charts are nice but they are misleading. That do not take into account the rise in ticket prices.

For instance:

The Dark Knight (2008) - Average Ticket Price = $7.18

Top Gun Maverick (2022) - Average Ticket Price = $9.17

[LordoftheRings]

Butt of course, this' just for fun, it's only money, it don't mean a thing.
It's permissible to play, man loves to be entertained; it's a Hollywood movie thing.

* BluBonnet we'll put you in charge of the finances @ Paramount Pictures.
And you can try a sequel to Gone with the Wind.

[LordoftheRings]

And it gives us the illusion of a normalcy. Can't buy that.

[Lee A Stewart]

Tom Cruise Set for Massive Payday Thanks to Top Gun: Maverick's Box Office Success

In the history of cinema, there have been certain actors who have been willing to duck out on a sizable wage packet in favor of taking a cut of a movie’s profits. Tom Cruise could be the next actor to make a mind boggling amount of money from his nostalgic mega-hit Top Gun: Maverick after the film soared past $1 billion at the box office in the last couple of weeks. Returning to the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell after more than 30 years, no one predicted that the Top Gun sequel would decimate the box office to become the biggest movie of the year and of Cruise’s career.

According to a report by Puck News, thanks to a savvy deal made way back in the early stages of the movie’s development, Cruise stands to make a lot more than his $12.5 base salary that was agreed for him to star in the film. The report goes on to detail that while his initial pay-out seems on the low side for one of Hollywood’s best known actors, that is because Cruise will also receive a potential “10 percent of the movie’s first-dollar gross with escalators that increase his percentage at certain milestones.” While this clause doesn’t take effect until Paramount his $125 million in profit, there is no fear of that not happening, and with streaming profit, rentals and digital copies all to come, Cruise could end up receiving a total pay packet between $60 million up to over $100 million for Top Gun: Maverick.

https://movieweb.com/tom-cruise-mass...ffice-success/

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

Meant for theater audiences, I guess he could do an alternate intro for the home video release.

They might do something like this, actually. For Mission: Impossible - Fallout, there is a thing where Cruise and McQ are actually on the set of TG:M and ask that you put your television in its 24p mode (or turn off motion smoothing at the very least) for the most filmic experience. I can't remember if they thank you on top of it, but it seems like something they may do for this as well.

[LordoftheRings]

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After this weekend can 'Top Gun: Maverick' reach the next domestic plateau, $700 million?
In two months exactly (by September 8) I'd say $660 million; surpassing 'Titanic'.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

They might do something like this, actually. For Mission: Impossible - Fallout, there is a thing where Cruise and McQ are actually on the set of TG:M and ask that you put your television in its 24p mode (or turn off motion smoothing at the very least) for the most filmic experience. I can't remember if they thank you on top of it, but it seems like something they may do for this as well.

They'd have to make sure that their action shots are composed with the limitations of 24 fps + LCD in mind.

I'd thank them if the 3D version of MI were released on home video, and if TGM also saw a 3D release. The canyon run, and especially the carrier landing, were in so many ways built for it.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

It should be shooting for $800m at least

1. How long would it stay in North American theaters?
2. How do you arrive @ $800 million; I'd like to know please?

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

If it is re-released when the summer movies start running out of steam, it could potentially stay in theaters until Avatar 2 opens. With the legs it has shown, another $200m domestic seems very possible.

So, a break near the end of Summer (say September 15) and then a come back in the Fall (say October 21) till somewhere after Christmas 2022 (say December 29)?

You should be in charge of Paramount Pictures finances department; I'll support you if you apply.

Even if this impossible mission was going to happen it wouldn't pass the $1.5 billion mark worldwide. But who knows with the world we're living in now.

We'll just have to see one week and one month @ a time.
• $660 million domestic: 88% chance (I predict it's in the bag)
• $700 million domestic: 33% chance (just a guess)
• $800 million domestic: 0.007% chance (same as above, a guess, for the fun of it)

[LordoftheRings]

I see you

[Jay H.]

So, what's more impressive to everybody: box office gross or tickets sold? The numbers for TG:M are amazing, but aren't tickets quite a bit more expensive now than they were when Titanic was released 25 years ago?

[Markgway]

Maverick will make a kajillion dollars and anyone that says otherwise is a filthy liar!

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Maverick will make a kajillion dollars and anyone that says otherwise is a filthy liar!

Calm down, Mr. Cruise.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

So, what's more impressive to everybody: box office gross or tickets sold? The numbers for TG:M are amazing, but aren't tickets quite a bit more expensive now than they were when Titanic was released 25 years ago?

Titanic sold 130 million tickets in its initial release. Nothing, not Avatar or TFA or Avengers has even come close and it's highly unlikely nothing ever will again.

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

So, what's more impressive to everybody: box office gross or tickets sold? The numbers for TG:M are amazing, but aren't tickets quite a bit more expensive now than they were when Titanic was released 25 years ago?

Yes. If only we used the “bums on seats” (as in tickets sold) method they use in France, then direct comparisons would be possibly.

And even adjusted for inflation is very vague as it assumes all ticket prices are alike when they can vary a lot.

I paid to see £14.50 to see Maverick in London. Had I watched it on a local screen it would’ve been £5 in Worthing and around £10 in Brighton.

[Lee A Stewart]

This is why they don't use tickets sold as a yardstick. I'm using 2019 to avoid the COVID influence.

[HomerThompson]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

So, what's more impressive to everybody: box office gross or tickets sold? The numbers for TG:M are amazing, but aren't tickets quite a bit more expensive now than they were when Titanic was released 25 years ago?

Tickets sold is a very flawed method as well though. It's not apples to apples anymore. Think of how many more things today we have to distract us with technology that wasn't around 20+ years ago. Let alone when a movie could play in a theatre for much, much longer before home release and piracy.

Or go even way back to Gone with the Wind, you didn't have home video, so the only way to see something was on the big screen and then it was gone forever. Until TV was invented and you could maybe catch it on that once a year or something.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by HomerThompson

Tickets sold is a very flawed method as well though. It's not apples to apples anymore. Think of how many more things today we have to distract us with technology that wasn't around 20+ years ago. Let alone when a movie could play in a theatre for much, much longer before home release and piracy.

Or go even way back to Gone with the Wind, you didn't have home video, so the only way to see something was on the big screen and then it was gone forever. Until TV was invented and you could maybe catch it on that once a year or something.

Also, several classics got re-released over the years just so's people could do exactly that, go and see it again while home video wasn't a thing. So unless we can extricate all those re-releases, many of which don't have their individual box office details recorded, only added to the extant total, then it's all a bit woolly when referring to how badass those old timey grosses/ticket sales actually were. GWTW is most likely still the daddy without those but it was a different time.

Of coursh inflation and the rise of 'premium theaters' with premium prices has plenty to do with modern numbers not seeming as impressive as old ones, but could we not level that off vs the re-releases of old movies? I'm old enough to remember when cracking $100M domestic was a major deal, nowadays it's nothing and I hope to get old enough to see the billion dollar mark go the same way. Even so, only 50 movies have officially hurdled that $1Bn barrier so it's still one hell of an achievement considering all the distractions that modern life throws at people. It also keeps the $2Bn+ grosses for Endgame, Titanic and Avadah as legitimate phenoms, you don't do those numbers without serious staying power, even with modern premiums attached.