Top Shooter: Maverick broke a new record and set it a year after the premiere. The sequel, starring Tom Cruise, has been a real blockbuster as Hollywood has struggled to recover from the pandemic security measures that have closed cinemas around the world. Other than that the film is, frankly, good and funny.
Now, the film has just reached a major box office milestone in Japan where, surprisingly, it is still in theaters after its release on May 27, 2022, thus staying in theaters for a year in a row.
But out of time Top Shooter: Maverick it has already grossed $101.5 million, making it Tom Cruise’s most successful feature film in the country. Thus surpassing The Last Samurai (2003).
Tom Cruise was so convinced that Top Gun: Maverick should be released in theaters that he convinced Paramount to push it back two years.
Top Shooter: Maverick This was a film that was recorded in 2018 and early 2019. Its original release was set for July 12, 2019, but the studio has decided to delay it until July 23, 2020. The main reason was to try to improve the sequence of actions. With the arrival of the pandemic, there was a second inevitable delay for another year: July 2, 2021. Part of the reason was safety measures in theaters due to COVID-19. But the studio also wanted to avoid competing with other feature films like Dogma or mulan.
Having seen the evolution of the theater attendance situation in the first half of 2021, Paramount has decided to postpone it again until November 19, 2021. And because indoor safety measures have been maintained throughout this year, the release date has been pushed back to May 2022. .
During these two years of delay between the first and last date of departure, several companies streaming they were trying to buy the rights to the film so they could release it on the platform instead of in theaters. Tom Cruise convinced Paramount not to do itand release it in theaters. Even if that means the film will have to be shelved literally for years.
For many analysts, this was a real mistake, since it was not entirely clear when the cinema would return to normal. But it was, in fact, Top Shooter: Maverick one of the main people responsible for bringing audiences back to cinemas around the world. In fact, Steven Spielberg publicly congratulated Tom Cruise on this achievement.
The bet paid off. Reviews for the film were very positive, with an unprecedented box office response. Top Shooter: Maverick it became the second highest-grossing feature film of 2022 with $1.493 million. Nearly half come from collections in the United States and the rest from international markets.
The decision that Tom Cruise, a firm believer in cinema, made Paramount release yes or yes in theaters, cemented his status as one of the biggest actors in Hollywood. It’s ironic considering the actor wasn’t interested in a Top Gun sequel.
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