Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[jess1581]

Thank you for the chuckles, guys. Lol

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Found her, thank you.

No, that's her sister Jacket Gan.

[drb999]

Rourke looks terrible. Is he sick or something?

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by drb999

Rourke looks terrible. Is he sick or something?

Still hasn't recovered from the time he got in a fight with Tony Stark

[levcore]

Originally Posted by drb999

Rourke looks terrible. Is he sick or something?

He can't stop messing with his face

[fighthefutureofhd]

The best kind too.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

Is that a picture of Mickey Rourke, or did Val Kilmer start taking steroids?

Just watch the whole thing and you'll get all your questions answered. ...Almost.

“Tom Cruise Is IRRELEVANT!� Mickey Rourke On Top Gun: Maverick Star - YouTube

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by drb999

Rourke looks terrible. Is he sick or something?

His regular himself; nothing of relevance to most of us...I included.

* You shure won't see him in Top Gun 3

[LordoftheRings]

Is Top Gun: Maverick's Box Office Crown Going To Be Taken By... Minions?!

[LordoftheRings]

As of yesterday, July 13

● Minions: The Rise of Gru (13 days)
Grosses
DOMESTIC (54.2%)
$231,189,080
INTERNATIONAL (45.8%)
$195,148,000
WORLDWIDE
$426,337,080
__________

● Top Gun: Maverick (48 days)
Grosses
DOMESTIC (50.7%)
$604,000,127
INTERNATIONAL (49.3%)
$587,900,000
WORLDWIDE
$1,191,900,127
__________

* Kids have the power @ the movies.
How old are the kids?

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Freddie_Quell

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[LordoftheRings]

"With $2 million last Monday, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick will pass $600 million in raw domestic grosses on Tuesday (done). That keeps it in twelfth place behind Incredibles 2 ($609 million), Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($620 million) and The Avengers ($623 million). Once it passes those films, as early as the end of this weekend, it’s a longer climb to the lifetime totals of Jurassic World ($652 million) and Titanic ($659 million). The original 1997/1998 theatrical run of Titanic, which saw the Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio melodrama top the weekend box office for 15 straight weekends, totaled $600.7 million. So, sans the 2012 3-D reissue (and obviously sans the upcoming Valentine’s Day 2023 rerelease already on tap), Top Gun: Maverick is now Paramount’s biggest domestic grosser ever. Heck, it’s one of their biggest domestic earners ever even when adjusted for inflation. It’s their biggest “tickets sold” smash since the James Cameron shipwreck masterpiece."

That's quite an accomplishment I'd say.

* $623 million (domestic), yes it will reach that, next week.
$659 million? It's Gun to be tough to get @ the Top. But with Cruise no mission is impossible. ...End of August, or by Labor Day? Yes, that's the ticket, the Labor Day long weekend. What do you think (excluding BluBonnet )?

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

[Show spoiler]That's quite an accomplishment I'd say.

* $623 million (domestic), yes it will reach that, next week.
$659 million? It's Gun to be tough to get @ the Top. But with Cruise no mission is impossible. ...End of August, or by Labor Day? Yes, that's the ticket, the Labor Day long weekend. What do you think (excluding BluBonnet )?

Hey, I saw that!

No, seriously, the window is getting shorter for Paramount to announce it will bring the movie back to IMAX when those screens become available again. Still see it getting to 2.1b or so globally, maybe $850m domestic.

[LordoftheRings]

And that's that ...

“Top Gun: Maverick” is officially the story of the summer, at least at the box office. This week, the Tom Cruise sequel became the 12th movie ever to gross $600 million domestically, as it creeps closer to Disney-Pixar’s 2008 movie “Incredibles 2,” which grossed $608 million. Last month, “Top Gun 2” easily whizzed past Cruise’s all-time highest-grossing movie, “War of the Worlds,” and then it crossed the $500 million mark on June 25.

For a little context, Cruise just turned 60. He has had a career that’s spanned 40 years with just three Oscar nominations during that time. Many, including myself, think that “Maverick” will bring Cruise back to the Oscars with the possibility of getting in both as an actor AND as the movie’s producer, since it’s apt to get into the Best Picture race, as well.

“Maverick” has six movies to pass on its way to $700 million, although one has to wonder if anything is possibly going to slow it down. Will Paramount and theater chains eventually give up some of those screens playing “Maverick” for newer movies? So far, it hasn’t been impacted much by the release of four major blockbusters, including this week’s “Thor: Love and Thunder.”

I know people who have seen the movie three or four times now, and every week, new people seem to be discovering it, which means that $700 million is not impossible, even if it might be slower to get there than it got to $500 million or $600 million.

For more context, the six movies between “Maverick” and “Black Panther” (Marvel’s highest-grossing solo character not named Spider-Man with $700.4 million) are:

“Incredibles 2″ (2018) – $608.6 million
“Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi” (2017) – $620.2 million
“The Avengers” (2012) – $623.4 million
“Jurassic World” (2015) – $653.4 million
“Titanic” (1997) – $659.4 million
“Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) – $678.8 million

Currently, the highest grossing movie domestically is 2015’s “Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens” with $936.7 million. Rounding out the Top 4 are 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” at $858.4 million, 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” at $804.8 million and 2009’s “Avatar” at $760.5 million.

It’s doubtful “Maverick” will catch up to “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in third place with the astounding haul it made after opening just before last Christmas, but “Maverick’s” success would mean that we’ve had two movies combined grossing $1.4 billion domestically since the pandemic began, so we can probably presume things are getting back to the “before times,” at least in terms of movie-going."

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Hey, I saw that!

No, seriously, the window is getting shorter for Paramount to announce it will bring the movie back to IMAX when those screens become available again. Still see it getting to 2.1b or so globally, maybe $850m domestic.

One, let say Maverick makes $850 million domestic (it just won't happen, even if they re-release it in 16K Holographic), that's roughly 50% of global. That means a combined total of $1.7 billion worldwide.

Two, $2.1 billion worldwide is from the Webb telescope far away in space, not here on planet Earth.

* What I anticipate and predict personally is $660 million domestic and roughly $1.320 billion worldwide, more or less some spare change.
And assuming Top Gun: Maverick plays in theaters till @ least September 8.

Going after Black Panther is futile IMHO. ...If you follow the state of the affairs regarding Corona's variant BA.5 in the United States of America and abroad.

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

BB getting ready to call the movie a financial disappointment when it doesn't hit $2B.

[LordoftheRings]

We'll talk after Labor Day ...
Meanwhile get your ticket for 'Nope' starting next week, July 22 ... It's gong to be a wild ride.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

We'll talk after Labor Day ...
Meanwhile get your ticket for 'Nope' starting next week, July 22 ... It's gong to be a wild ride.

Did the original trailer to that not test well? I noticed that they took the racism out of the newer cut that I saw before JW Dominion.

Is there hype for this borderline mockbuster of Cowboys vs Aliens?

[BluBonnet]

They took the.... what?

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

Did the original trailer to that not test well? I noticed that they took the racism out of the newer cut that I saw before JW Dominion.

Is there hype for this borderline mockbuster of Cowboys vs Aliens?

What are you talking about? They ran the Nope teaser for months, and then released a full trailer in front of Dominion.