Top of the heap?!....'Top Gun: Maverick' looks to be Cruise's biggest movie opening....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....seems to be Tom Cruise's best movie opening....97% on Rotten Tomatoes....


......may still break records over Sat and Sun.....


....Top Gun: Maverick at this Friday night hour is on its way to a $51M Opening day (which includes $19.3M previews). It would not be shocking to wake up on Saturday morning and see that the sequel has edged out Iron Man 2 ($51.2M) to become Paramount’s top opening day ever. Already, the sequel is Tom Cruise’s best opening day ever in U.S./Canada besting Mission: Impossible – Fallout‘s first day of $22.8M by 124%.

Three day now for the Paramount-Skydance co-financed movie is $120M, still second best for Paramount after Iron Man 2‘s $128.1M. Four day now stands at $146.2M, which is arguably the third best opening for Memorial Day after Disney’s 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($153M) and Paramount’s 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($151.95M, Thursday-Monday).

Now earlier today we incorrectly reported that Top Gun 2 was bound for a Memorial Day record as we were going off of Box Office Mojo figures. Turns out Mojo use to back out Thursday night previews; so At World’s End did a pure $139.8M over 4-days, but with Thursday previews of $13.2M, has a Memorial Day frame opening of $153M. Meanwhile, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull had a hard Thursday opening of $25M on May 22, 2008. If any Memorial Day record is going to be cleared by Top Gun 2, it needs to clear $153M. No one is seeing that as of yet, and it doesn’t mean it’s not possible. On its preview night we heard the latest by Cruise was playing strong all over the country including Salt Lake City, Denver, Orlando, San Francisco, the list went on and on. It’s not just big cities, but the flyover states as well.....


Ranking for this weekend,so far:

1.) Top Gun: Maverick (Par) 4,735 theaters Fri $51M, 3-day $120M, 4-day $146.2M/Wk 1

2.) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Dis) 3,805 theaters (-729), Fri $4.4M (-48%), 3 day $17M (-47%), 4 day $21.8M, total $376.1M, /Wk 4

3.) The Bob’s Burgers Movie (20th/Dis) 3,425 theaters, Fri $5.5M, 3-day $14.7M, 4-day $18.1M/Wk 1

4.) Downton Abbey: A New Era (Foc) 3,830 theaters (+10), Fri $1.7M (-77%), 3-day $6M (-63%), 4-day $7.7M, total $30.2M/Wk 2

5.) The Bad Guys (Uni) 2944 theaters (-761), Fri $1.2M (-18%), 3-day $4.8M (-22%), 4-day $6.4M, total $83.1M/Wk 6

[mrbigstuff]

Friends are posting on FB that they like it. Not sure if pay money to see it, get the blu ray

[ka jowct]

Oh, great. More money for his cult.

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

The greatest military recruitment flick ever, yay!

[RAMd®d]

Haters gonna hate, but I bet it's going to be.a great movie.

Can't wait to see it.

[Speedy]

ka jowct wrote:
Oh, great. More money for his cult.

And we, the taxpayers, through the DOD, subsidized the movie.

[Lemon Drop]

The original Top Gun is on Netflix now.
Watched that the other night...wow..
That was a stroll down memory lane. I had quite a crush on Tom back then. Still love his movies.

[Ken Sp.]

mrbigstuff wrote:
Friends are posting on FB that they like it. Not sure if pay money to see it, get the blu ray

I saw it last Tuesday. I am not much of movie fan, and rarely go to theaters.....But, The movie was fantastic, and it really benefits from a big screen with good sound!!

[rgG]

A friend wanted to see it and I agreed to go.
It was better than I expected. It did have a plot and storyline.
The airplane scenes were pretty damned amazing and this isn’t really my type of movie.
My late husband really liked the original and I know he would have liked this one.
I didn’t realize that Top Gun was where his oft used phrase “turn and burn” came from, till today.
I would say that it is the type of film best seen on the big screen with surround sound.

[mrbigstuff]

I'm still unsure what demonic concoction that Tom drinks every day in order to not age.