Top Gun: Maverick crosses $1 billion global box office receipts

Top Gun: Maverick has crossed the $1 billion 810 million mark in global box office receipts, making it the most successful film of 2022 so far, and the most successful of Tom Cruise's career.

Variety reports that Top Gun: Maverick's global box office takings now total $1.006 bn 813 m after 31 days of release, overtaking 2022's previous highest earner Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is now on $947 m 772 m. By far the film's biggest territory is the US, which has earned $522 m, and Japan $41 m. Top Gun: Maverick has also comfortably overtaken Cruise's

The film has proven to be very durable in the US box office charts, with revenue projections suggesting it will return to the No 1 slot in its fifth week on release, just ahead of the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis, which is making its debut. Top Gun: Maverick was previously pushed lower by films such as Lightyear and Jurassic World Dominion, but has been able to keep its audience as figures for its rivals diminishes.

Variety says critical praise and stellar word-of- mouth are helping the film to achieve these figures, while rightwing pundits claim that audiences are responding to its supposed conservative and anti-woke themes. It is well behind the highest grossing film since the Covid epidemic, that remains Spider-Man: No Way Home, released in 2021 with a global box office of $1.9 billion.