Top gun 2: Lone Ranger, starring Tom Cruise, exploded at the box office as expected, with an estimated $124million in North America over the weekend. Four days (the war dead day holiday) is estimated to be $151million, which will become the second largest work in this period, second only to $153million in Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
This film has also become the first North American work in Tom's career, and it is the third film after new Batman and Dr. strange 2 this year.
For producer jerrybruckheimer, top gun 2 was the runner up of his career works with $124million. The champion was $135million for pirates of the Caribbean 2 in 2006, and the third runner up was $114.7 million for pirates of the Caribbean 3 in 2007 (Disney insisted that the four-day ticket room for the film was $153million).
36 years ago, "top gun" was released in North America on May 16, with a box office of US $8.193 million, US $180million in North America and US $357million in the world. According to the current trend, "top gun 2" will definitely double its growth.
Although it has been 36 years since the last episode, and the audience over 55 years old accounts for 21%, the film has won an amazing good reputation: the freshness of rotten tomatoes is 97%, the popcorn index is 99%, and cinemascore is rated as a+. Nearly half of the audience interviewed performed the film better than expected, and another 30% said they would brush the film in the cinema
At the same time, the film reaped US $124million in 62 overseas markets (non North America), 32 markets achieved the best performance in Tom's career, and 18 markets achieved the best live action film painting in Paramount's history.
Top gun 2 also achieved the best opening performance of this blockbuster factory since transformers 4: extinction and rebirth in 2014.
According to foreign media reports, Tom Tong earned US $12.5 million in top gun: Lone Ranger, but the box office of the film was overdue, and he had the chance to get a dividend of more than US $100million.
