'Top Gun: Maverick' Becomes The First $1 Billion Grosser Of 2022 As Well As Tom Cruise's Career

The Tom Cruise starrer Top Gun: Maverick is flying high at the global box office. The sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, this aerial action drama has topped $1 billion at the worldwide box office. This is the first film of Tom Cruise's career to reach the landmark and also the first Hollywood film of 2022 to do so.

Top Gun: Maverick has surpassed Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness to grab the first spot in the yearly grossers of 2022. The film collected $521.7 million at the domestic box office and became the first film of 2022 to cross $500 million in North America.

Top Gun: Maverick is close to the half-billion mark in international markets, with a foreign total of $484.7 million. The cumulative gross currently stands at $1.006 billion, which makes it the only second film, after Spider-Man: No Way Home, to gross over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office in the post-pandemic era.