Weekend Box Office 5/29 - TOP GUN Breaks Memorial Day Records

[AndyDursin]

Paramount must feel vindicated hanging onto Top Gun...it's going to come close to smashing the last Bond's entire US gross in 4 days. Huge number, admittedly still colored by the fact these movies open with no competition opposite them, but if any movie will get the over 35 crowd back it's this one.

Playing in 4,735 locations, the widest theatrical release in domestic box office history, “Top Gun: Maverick” is projected to earn $150 million over the holiday weekend. On a three-day scale, Paramount is predicting a $123 million haul. That’s easily a new record debut for Cruise, whose previous best — a $64.8 million opening for 2005’s “War of the Worlds” — is getting left in the dust.

[Monterey Jack]

Considering that Cruise has been one of the most consistent box office earners since the original Top Gun, it's kind of astounding he's never had a $100+ million opening weekend up until now. I would have thought one of the latter Mission: Impossible movies would have done that.

[AndyDursin]

Mission accomplished.

[Monterey Jack]

On a less massive but still remarkable scale, the rightfully acclaimed Everything Everywhere All At Once is closing in on $60 million in the U.S. alone, and still will have four showtimes per day at my local multiplex after three months. This is enormously gratifying, especially for such a strange, innovative A24 movie you'd expect mainstream audiences to "not get".