![]() “This solidifies the notion that the movie theater is a singular and a vitally important outlet for people,” Dergarabedian said. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Val Kilmer, reprising his role from the original, also star. The new film has Cruise reprising the role of Maverick, who returns to the elite aviation training program to train the next generation of flyers, including Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Greg Tarzan Davis, Danny Ramirez, Lewis Pullman and Jay Ellis. Audiences, who were 58% male, gave it an A+ CinemaScore, according to exit polls. Reviews have been stellar, too, with the film notching a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. A streaming debut was simply not an option. ![]() Directed by Joseph Kosinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and co-produced and co-financed by Skydance, the sequel reportedly cost $152 million to make.īut even as the months, and years, went by and many other companies chose to compromise on hybrid releases, Cruise and Paramount didn’t waver on their desire to have a major theatrical release. The pandemic got in the way of those plans, however, and it was delayed several times. Its marketing campaign technically started back in July 2019. The sequel to the late Tony Scott’s “Top Gun,” which was released in 1986, was originally slated to open in the summer of 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Top Gun: Maverick” had an extremely long journey to get to the theaters. It’s not that his films don’t make money in the long run: They just aren’t enormously frontloaded. After that it was “Mission: Impossible - Fallout” with $61 million in 2018. Before “Maverick,” his biggest domestic debut was in 2005, with Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds,” which opened to $64 million. ![]()
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