Director Joseph Kosinski’s film achieved
the feat on Monday after finishing the day with a domestic total of $474.8
million and $427.1 million overseas, for a global cume of $901.9 million.
Marvel and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the
Multiverse of Madness has earned nearly $950 million globally, while Sony and
Disney’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rests at nearly $1.9 billion worldwide.
According to Paramount, more than 16
percent of Top Gun 2′s audience has seen the film more than once in theaters,
while 4 percent have seen it four times or more.
Last week, Top Gun: Maverick passed 2018’s
Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which earned $791 million globally, to become
Cruise’s biggest earner of all time at the worldwide box office, not adjusted
for inflation.
Top Gun: Maverick is also Paramount’s
biggest live-action movie in 15 markets, including the U.K., Australia, France
and Brazil, as well as the studio’s highest-grossing original release at the
domestic box office behind Titanic.
Top Gun: Maverick has been buoyed by
enviable word of mouth. Critics blessed the long-awaited sequel with a 96
percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, while moviegoers awarded the film with a
coveted A+ CinemaScore. Box office sources say the only reason Top Gun:
Maverick may not get to $1 billion is the absence of a China and Russia
release.
Top Gun: Maverick had already become
Cruise’s top-grossing film domestically when it passed War of the Worlds
($234.3 million at the domestic box office).
On Monday — the Juneteenth holiday — Top
Gun’s winning streak continued when it passed new offering Lightyear, from
Disney and Pixar, to come in second domestically with roughly $7.9 million.
Jurassic World Dominion ruled Juneteenth
with an estimated $8.4 million, for an 11-day domestic tally of nearly $260
million domestically and nearly $630 million worldwide.
Lightyear, which opened to a subdued $51
million over the weekend, came in third on Monday with $6.6 million, for a
four-day domestic tally of $57 million.