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Top Gun: Maverick sails past Titanic at the all-time domestic box office

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Top Gun: Maverick start overtaking Titanic to become the seventh-highest grossing movie of all time in US theaters.

The sequel to the 1986 classic has earned more than $662 million in the US since its release, according to data from IMBb’s Box Office Mojo, while globally it has raked in over $1.35 billion.

Those feats have now seen the movie overtake Titanic in Box Office Mojo’s ranking of movies’ all-time domestic box office earnings, with the latter earning more than $659 million from US ticket sales since its release in 1997.

When it comes to global box office earnings, Maverick is the 13th highest grossing film of all time, according to Box Office Mojo, beating out the likes of Skyfall, Frozen and the final Harry Potter movie.

The film smashed records when it was released in Maytaking $156 million at the US box office over the Memorial Day weekend—surpassing the record for domestic box office takings over the long weekend that had previously been held by 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

When the movie hit the $100 million milestone, it became the top-grossing pandemic-era film that wasn’t a superhero movie.

Its financial success has also marked star Tom Cruise’s first $100 million opening weekendas well as the first film in his career to reach the $1 billion landmark.

The movie’s box office triumphs were driven by a global promotional tourrave reviews—it has a 99% audience score on movie review sites Rotten Tomatoesand nostalgia for the 1980s-set original.

Maverick has been widely credited with saving the box office in a pandemic era that has seen movie theaters forced to close, the release of blockbuster titles—including the Top Gun sequel itself—delayed, and a massive shift toward streaming at home.

Analysts have speculated that given Maverick‘s box office success, Paramount—the studio behind both Top Gun movies—might find it difficult to resist pursuing a third installment in the franchise, which would likely be “a guaranteed hit.”

“It’s really about Cruise and his team,” a senior film industry analyst told Fortune in June.

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