news culture Top Gun Maverick dethrones The Batman at the French box office in 2022
While The Batman had dethroned Uncharted at the French box office last March, it is now his turn to leave the first place of the podium to Top Gun: Maverick. The action film, which stars Tom Cruise in the main role, thus becomes the most viewed film of 2022 in France … for the moment.
A new takeoff, 36 years later
Top Gun: Maverick has now exceeded the 3.2 million admissions in France since its release on May 25. The film thus broke the records of The Batman and Doctor Strange into the Multiverse of Madness in a few days. Maverick is also on track to overtake its predecessor, which recorded 3.5 million admissions in French theaters in 1986. The film is expected to become Tom Cruise’s biggest hitand perhaps even exceed the famous billion.
To tell the truth, the Top Gun record is not limited to the French box office, since the film also surpassed $755 million in worldwide revenue and thus rises to third place among the biggest films of 2022. The first place is occupied by Spider-Man: No Way Home and its 1.9 billion receipts, and The Batman, which could soon lose its second place, with $770 million, to benefit Maverick.
Maverick, the return to Top Gun
Released in French cinemas on May 25, 2022Top Gun: Maverick takes audiences back to the famous elite pilot academy. Thirty years after the events of the first film, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) returns to Top Gun to prepare a young team of Navy airmen for a perilous mission. The film is directed by Joseph Kosinsky (Oblivion) and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean), which had already produced the first film in 1986.
Outraged Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible) in the main role, Val Kilmer (Tombstone) is also back as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. Among the new faces are Miles Teller (Fantastic Four), Monica Barbaro (Chicago Justice), Jay Ellis (Mrs America), Glen Powell (Shadow Figures), Danny Ramirez (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Lewi Pullman (Bad weather at the El Royale hotel).
