Top Gun: Maverick, starring 60-year-old legendary actor Tom Cruise, was released on May 27, 2022, after a long wait. Returning 36 years after the first movie, the production has been receiving positive reviews from both critics and audiences since its release. The movie also had tremendous success at the box office.
In the past weeks, we shared with you that Top Gun: Maverick is Tom Cruise’s most successful movie at the box office, grossing more than $800 million. It has now been revealed that the production, which continues to take its place in many cinemas and has earned 1 billion dollars worldwide in the past days, has achieved another success at the box office.
Top Gun: Maverick is the most successful action movie since The Dark Knight
The new Top Gun movie grossed $578 million in the US, making it the most successful action movie since Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight. We can guess that you are asking why similar movies with high grossing like Marvel movies are not included in this ranking. This is because movies such as Top Gun: Maverick, The Dark Knight are described as ‘action movies that do not contain fantastic (superpower, wizards, dinosaurs, etc.) elements’.
According to the news of Forbes, the giant production ranked 59th among the films released throughout history as a result of the comparison of domestic revenues adjusted for inflation. It has also been reported that Top Gun: Maverick is in the top ten of non-fantasy action/adventure movies.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie takes place behind The Dark Knight, which is engraved in our minds with its iconic Joker character. The Dark Knight managed to raise $534 million in 2008. When this number is adjusted for inflation, the resulting revenue of 681 million dollars. This makes Top Gun: Maverick the most successful production of its kind since The Dark Knight.
It should also be noted that Top Gun: Maverick is one of the rare films that managed to compete with Marvel movies. As it is known, lately, the cinemas were often full of superhero movies, and movies of this style were dominating the box office both in the USA and around the world. However, Top Gun: Maverick changed this situation a little bit, directing people to a different movie and managed to be among the few movies that could do this.
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