Top Gun: Maverick Smashes Box Office Record Of The Dark Knight; Crosses $1 Billion Globally

Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick is smashing records one after the other. The movie has crossed the box office record of Christian Bale's The Dark Knight. It now has also surpassed $1 billion collections across the world.

Top Gun: Maverick beats the box office record of The Dark Knight

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Top Gun: Maverick has surpassed $1 billion collections worldwide.

For the unversed, the first film that made $1 billion globally was Titanic in 1998. Made on a budget of about $170 million, the Tom Cruise starrer movie has minted $1.006 billion worldwide, thus becoming one of the top highest-grossing movies of all time. The lifetime collection of Christian Bale and Heath Ledger starrer The Dark Knight is reportedly $1.005 billion. At the US box office, the movie has minted $572 million in comparison to The Dark Knight whose total collection at US box office is $534 million.

Thus, the movie has also brought Tom Cruise to a billion-dollar club. It's his highest-grossing film ever and his first billion dollar movie too. The film is also the second to cross $1 billion worldwide since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

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The release of Top Gun 2 was delayed several times because of Covid-19, and looks like it was all worth the hype. The makers took the right decision to release the Hollywood film in the theatres, as it managed to create havoc at the box office, which has been reigning so far with Disney and Warner Brothers' superhero franchises.

Top Gun: Maverick has outperformed the original movie

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The original Top Gun movie was made on a budget of $15 million and had grossed $357 million.

It is also the highest-grossing 2022 movie worldwide beating The Batman and Doctor Strange 2

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Do you know Tom Cruise wanted to be a pilot or an actor, and thus the film is even more special for him?

The 59-year-old actor told HELLO! magazine, "All I ever wanted to be was a pilot or an actor, so ¡®Top Gun¡¯ was a huge moment in so many respects, including my passion for aviation."

Furthermore, he gushed, "It was life-changing for me. I got to actually fly in an F-14 jet which was a dream come true, and play a character I loved in Maverick."

For the latest movie in the blockbuster series, Top Gun: Maverick he got to do more plane stunts than ever before. Cruise said, "The P-51 Mustang you see in the movie is actually my plane, so I got to pilot in those sequences. I also got to be in the jet fighter a lot more this time, which was thrilling. It was something I had been working up to."

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