According to the first figures reported by Boxoffice, “Top Gun Maverick” achieves the second best start of the year 2022 at the box office in France. Waiting to make a harvest of entries on this holiday Thursday and this long weekend.
Three years of waiting after a release postponed since 2019 and thirty-six years of waiting since the first film: the great return of Tom Cruise in the cockpit of Top Gun Maverick was certainly followed with attention by the professionals of the cinema planet.
After a triumphant first screening at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, after arriving by helicopter at the San Diego premiere and after passing through the Cannes Film Festival last week, Joseph Kosinski’s feature film has kept its promises for its first day in French cinemas.
Thus, according to the figures reported by our colleagues from box office, Top Gun Maverick thus garnered some 320,000 entries, including 120,000 previews. What to offer Tom Cruise the second best start of 2022 in France, a few thousand tickets sold from Doctor Strange 2.
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Carried by very positive spectator reviews, this “legacyquel” should not stop in such a good flight, with a bridge weekend conducive to boosting attendance in theaters. Something to tickle the 3,571,206 spectators boarded by Tom Cruise with the first film in 1986? Once again, to him the drunkenness… the drunkenness of the box office!
In search of Maverick on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle