UPDATE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Looks like a record opening for Remembrance Day weekend, as Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick will win $ 142.4 million in four days, easily overtaking Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End of Disney, which made $ 139.8 million. It took 15 years to break that record. Friday for the sequel to Tom Cruise looks like $ 50 million with an expected 3 days of $ 117 million. This will make Top Gun: Maverick the second biggest player for Paramount after Iron Man 2, which debuted with $ 128.1 million and is ahead of Indiana Jones since 2008 and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($ 100.1 million). Top Gun 2 is also the second biggest day to open a Paramount title after $ 51.1 million on Iron Man 2.
Look, even if those numbers go down, this is by far (no pun, Mr. Cruz) the biggest opening for the three-time Oscar nominee, close to a 60-year-old blockbuster star. You see, the industry has certainly paid off for some studios to keep their films during the pandemic until cinemas reopen.
When asked during his masterclass in Cannes whether direct streaming was an option for the Skydance-co-sponsored film, Cruz exclaimed, “No, this will never happen,” to applause. “That would never happen.”
UPDATE ON FRIDAY: After 36 years of waiting, the Tom Cruise Top Gun: Maverick sequel has finally skyrocketed to a whopping $ 19.3 million in previews from Thursday’s screenings at 3 p.m. and a one-off fan event at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
This is the highest-grossing visualization in the history of Paramount Pictures and the highest-grossing Remembrance Day visualization in history; and of course, this is the best for Cruz. Early forecasts for the weekend were $ 80-100 million in four days and a high octane start could easily lead to the best opening of Remembrance Day weekend, surpassing a total of $ 139.8 million in four days since 2007. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
Without a doubt, Top Gun: Maverick also aims to be the best start to Cruz’s career, easily leaving behind his $ 64.8 million three-day 2005 publication of War of the Worlds.
Everything works in favor of Top Gun 2: This is the widest edition in 4735 cinemas and has 5 out of 5 stars in PostTrak on ComScore / Screen Engine, with 96% positive and a huge 84% strong recommendations. PLFs (31%) and Imax (21%) together account for 52% of pre-ticket sales. Imax alone counted $ 4.1 million in previews, the best for Paramount’s exhibitor, a cruise movie and the ten best Imax results of all time.
In addition, earning money for Top Gun 2 is a 97% Certified Fresh score for Rotten Tomatoes after a month of turbulent world premieres and an ongoing 99% audience rating of RT.
The previous big preview for Paramount was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2009 with $ 16 million, which was on Tuesday and led to $ 62 million on Wednesday (reviews accounted for 25% of that figure). The best previews on Thursday for the opening of the film on Remembrance Day weekend actually belong to Disney’s Star Wars: A Solo Story, which grossed $ 14.1 million but raised only 40% of the $ 35.3 million the first Friday. The film disappointed fans and still led to a four-day opening of $ 103 million in holiday worth.
Previews began Thursday at 3 p.m. for the Paramount / Skydance feature. In addition, on Tuesday there was “Top Gun” with first-class large format, Imax and Dolby screens, which opened their curtains at 7 pm for just one show. We hear that most of the preliminary money for the sequel was made yesterday.
Top Gun: Maverick spoils Cruz’s previous preview recording on Thursday, which is Mission: Impossible – Fallout from 2018, which won $ 6 million.
Top Gun: Maverick means a little extra for the show and the studios in general: Aside from the older boys he visits, which Cruz always attracts (Fallout attracted 41% of men over 25), the hope is that this sequel will play widely, from under 25 to Cruz fans who hung his posters in their bedrooms and lockers in the ’80s. Last night there was unbalanced turnout from 57% of boys to 43% of women. Thursday night Fallout regained 26% of Friday’s first day of $ 22.8 million before continuing to make $ 61.2 million.
20th century studios
Elsewhere last night, 20th Century Studios / The Bob’s Burgers The Disney movie saw $ 1.5 million in previews from shows that began at 5 p.m. The photo is 86% fresh in Rotten Tomatoes with a current audience rating of 96%. A four-day launch of $ 10 million to $ 14 million is expected at 3,425 locations in the United States and Canada. Among other visuals, Sing 2 made $ 1.6 million in its early broadcasts on Tuesday, Encanto made $ 1.5 million on Tuesday, while The Bad Guys made $ 1.2 million on Thursday night before opening on Friday.
Among yesterday’s regular films, Disney / Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” grossed $ 2.4 million in 4,534 theaters, down 14 percent from Wednesday’s $ 354.4 million in three weeks.
Focus Features Downton Abbey: New Era was second with $ 1.3 million, down 11 percent from Wednesday’s first week of $ 22.6 million in 3,820 seats.
Universal / DreamWorks Animation’s bad guys were third yesterday with $ 576,000, + 1%, in 3,705 seats and a five-week total of $ 76.7 million.
Everything Everywhere and All on the A24, reserved for 1576, posted a ninth Thursday of $ 426K, -16%, and a current amount of $ 54.3 million.
Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 raised about $ 330,000, -4%, up from 2,943 for a seven-week total of $ 182.6 million.
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