<p>&#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; is on pace to be Tom Cruise&#8217;s largest domestic box opening success of his career, crushing pre-pandemic numbers for some of his biggest movies.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-leaving-cannes-festival-early-and-the-reason-has-everything-to-do-with-queen-elizabeth-ii">59-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s long-awaited sequel to the 1986 hit movie &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; hits theaters Memorial Day weekend and, according to official tracking, the film will have at least a four-day gross of $92 million, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/top-gun-box-office-tom-cruise-1235153452/">reported</a> The Hollywood Reporter in a piece published Wednesday. The outlet noted that those numbers are considered to be on the conservative side, with the opening weekend in the United States possibly soaring to more than $100 million and reaching as high as $125 million.</p>
<p>To put that into context, the &#8220;Jack Reacher&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-explodes-at-crew-for-breaking-covid-rules-were-creating-thousands-of-jobs-you-motherfers">star&#8217;s</a> prior largest domestic box office opening numbers were: $64.9 million in 2005 for &#8220;War of the Worlds,” followed by &#8220;Mission: Impossible &#8212; Fallout&#8221; in 2018, which grossed $61.2 million opening weekend, according to Comscore and not adjusted for inflation. The rest of the superstar actor&#8217;s movies have had openings of less than $60 million, with him earning $4.2 billion at the domestic box office since 1981, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/top-gun-maverick-could-be-tom-cruise-first-100-million-opening-weekend.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&amp;par=sharebar">reported</a> CNBC.</p>
<p>&#8220;At this point, I&#8217;m seeing very little reason not to expect a domestic opening weekend well over $100 million, a mark that the film will probably reach in its first three days,&#8221; Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/top-gun-maverick-could-be-tom-cruise-first-100-million-opening-weekend.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&amp;par=sharebar">BoxOffice.com</a> shared. &#8220;We&#8217;re not just talking about a new career best for Mr. Cruise, but also potentially some Memorial Day weekend records that may be going down.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Box Office: ‘Top Gun 2’ Targets Career-Best Opening for Tom Cruise <a href="https://t.co/EDs1b3I7WX">https://t.co/EDs1b3I7WX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1529236321348329473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The report noted that after the pandemic, it has been tricky to accurately estimate how movies will perform. It added that with the film&#8217;s appeal to an older audience — as it has been 36 years since the original high-flying movie hit theaters — it&#8217;s unclear if those consumers will turn out.</p>
<p>The film begins previews Thursday in North America, and will officially open Friday in 4,732 locations. &#8220;Top Gun 2&#8221; will hit the global box office in 62 markets, which doesn&#8217;t include Russia following Russia President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, and China, which has yet to secure a release date. The movie is estimated to come close to $200 million globally in its debut, the report noted.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-highlights-the-greatness-of-the-reagan-era">excitement around the film</a> finally coming out could be helping those box office earnings, after the film&#8217;s release was delayed several times due to the pandemic.</p>

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