Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' tops north American box office

Highest-grossing debut in Cruise's 40-year career

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Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick has collected an estimated $151 million in north America cinemas in its opening weekend, according to reports. The sequel to the original Top Gun (1986) is continuing to draw in audiences to the theatres.

Top Gun: Maverick which was delayed by two years amid the Covid-19 pandemic, is the highest-grossing debut in Cruise's 40-year career, and his first to surpass $100 million on opening weekend.

Maverick brings back Cruise as the US aviator Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and also features Jennifer Connelly among the new set of characters. The film is set over 30 years after the events of the first film and sees Maverick returning to the Top Gun institute and training a group of graduates for a specialised mission.

"I wanted to make it feel like it was in the world of 'Top Gun', but at the same time, figure out ways to make it our own, tell our own story and push the cinematography as much as the first film did. Now, audiences will decide if we have achieved that,” director Joseph Kosinski had said.

Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has slipped to second place in its fourth weekend.

-with PTI inputs

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