Top Gun: Maverick becomes Tom Cruise's fastest-selling movie since 2005 with $100m opening weekend
The new Top Gun movie has given Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise his first $100 million opening weekend at the box office.
In its first three days in North American theatres, the sequel earned an estimated $124 million in ticket sales, Paramount Pictures said Sunday."These results are ridiculously, over-the-top fantastic," said Chris Aronson, Paramount's president of domestic distribution.Cruise's previous biggest opening weekend for a movie came in 2005 with War of the Worlds, which raked in $64 million .
The original movie flew high above the competition, topping last Wednesday's weekly UK film chart, as fans - young and old - prepared for the official release of the sequel last Friday. "That the original Top Gun has made history by getting to number one on the Official Film Chart and that many of those sales were digital downloads is a great achievement," she noted.
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