Top Gun: Maverick Breaks Box Office Records

More conservative types may have worried that Tom Cruise suiting up as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell was a “ride into the danger zone” of obsolesce. But this weekend’s receipts for Top Gun: Maverick have proven them wrong. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Joseph Kosinski-directed sequel to the 1986 original didn’t just do well, it leveled the competition as if it were a bunker nestled amidst mountainous terrain in an unnamed but nefarious rogue nation. Variety reported that it grossed $156 million domestically over the Memorial Day weekend, beating 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by three million for the record. The… Read Full Article