This weekend, Top Gun: Maverick became the highest earning film of 2022, surpassing Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Surprisingly, given Tom Cruise’s long list of past successes, this is the first movie in his career to cross the rare $1 billion mark in global box office sales.
The film, which is a sequel to the original Top Gun of 1986, was originally slated to debut in 2019, but was moved to 2020 due to production delays. Then came the pandemic lockdowns, which prompted Paramount Pictures to push the release of the film to 2021, and finally to the May of 2022.
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