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Tom Cruise thanks fans: Box office record for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
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US actor Tom Cruise at the premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick” in London.
Photo: Alberto Pezzali / AP / dpa
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The Angels Over 160 million dollars in four days: With these numbers, the film beats the previous record holder “Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End” from 2007.
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More than three decades after his theatrical success with Top Gun (1986), Tom Cruise set a record with the sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
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“Thank you to everyone who watched Top Gun: Maverick and made it an historic launch weekend,” the 59-year-old Hollywood star wrote on Twitter. “The biggest Memorial Weekend theatrical release ever,” the film’s Twitter page said, citing $300 million in worldwide box office earnings over the weekend.
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In North America alone, the film grossed over $160 million in four days over the Memorial Day long weekend. “Top Gun: Maverick” beat the previous record holder “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”, which brought in 153 million dollars in this period in 2007.
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In the action film he once again plays the breakneck pilot Pete Mitchell aka Maverick, who is now preparing a young squad of pilots for a dangerous combat mission. Maverick’s old pal Iceman (Val Kilmer) is also in the cast, directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”).
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