{"id":1500392,"date":"2022-06-01T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500392"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:59:56","slug":"tom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Has Message For Fans After \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 Scores \u2018Historic Opening Weekend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-cruise-has-message-for-fans-after-top-gun-maverick-scores-historic-opening-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500392&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tom Cruise sent a message to fans after his long-awaited sequel \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d scored an \u201chistoric opening weekend\u201d not only for the actor, but in the history of Memorial Day box office openings as well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-gun-maverick-on-pace-to-be-tom-cruises-largest-box-opening-success-ever-crushing-pre-pandemic-numbers\">59-year-old actor\u2019s<\/a> famed character Lieutenant Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell makes a return to the big screen after his debut in the 1986 action-packed film \u201cTop Gun,\u201d and it has proven to be a career changer for the \u201cMission Impossible\u201d star. The sequel has landed the actor his biggest box-office opening of his career as the movie brought in more than $160 million over the four-day release of the film, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/06\/top-gun-maverick-box-office-tuesday-may-1235036525\/\">Deadline<\/a> reported in a piece published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCruise\/status\/1531711811703250945?s=20&#038;t=yVON42kYTcPE2vLcJX2WmA\">Cruise tweeted<\/a> Tuesday, \u201cThank you to everyone who saw #TopGun: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you to everyone who saw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TopGun?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TopGun<\/a>: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCruise\/status\/1531711811703250945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted that through Tuesday, the movie has taken in $176.3 million. The highly-anticipated sequel will easily beat the original films domestic lifetime total of $180.258 million.<\/p>\n<p>To put that into context, the \u201cJack Reacher\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-cruise-explodes-at-crew-for-breaking-covid-rules-were-creating-thousands-of-jobs-you-motherfers\">star\u2019s<\/a> prior largest domestic box office opening numbers were: $64.9 million in 2005 for \u201cWar of the Worlds,\u201d followed by \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout\u201d in 2018, which grossed $61.2 million opening weekend, according to Comscore and not adjusted for inflation, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-gun-maverick-on-pace-to-be-tom-cruises-largest-box-opening-success-ever-crushing-pre-pandemic-numbers\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u00a0reported. The rest of Cruise\u2019s films have had openings of less than $60 million, with him earning $4.2 billion at the domestic box office since 1981, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/25\/top-gun-maverick-could-be-tom-cruise-first-100-million-opening-weekend.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&#038;par=sharebar\">CNBC<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-gun-maverick-highlights-the-greatness-of-the-reagan-era\">In the sequel,<\/a> Cruise\u2019s character \u201cPete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him\u201d before he\u00a0is called back to \u201cTop Gun,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1745960\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And to think it almost didn\u2019t happen. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-cruise-really-didnt-want-to-make-top-gun-maverick-director-says\">movie\u2019s director Joseph Kosinski<\/a>\u00a0shared that Cruise \u201creally didn\u2019t want to make\u201d a sequel, but in 30 minutes, he changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I read the script, I had some ideas, and Jerry [Bruckheimer] liked those ideas,\u201d Kosinski shared. \u201cHe said, \u2018You know what, you gotta go pitch this to Tom directly.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe flew to Paris, where Tom was shooting \u2018Mission: Impossible,\u2019 we got about a half-hour of his time between setups,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didn\u2019t realize when we were flying over. But when I got there, I found that Tom really didn\u2019t want to make another \u2018Top Gun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his pitch, he said Cruise immediately called the head of Paramount Pictures and said, \u201cWe\u2019re making another \u2018Top Gun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-gun-maverick-responds-to-outcry-replaces-taiwanese-flag-on-tom-cruises-characters-jacket\">\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019 Responds To Outcry, Replaces Taiwanese Flag On Tom Cruise\u2019s Character\u2019s\u00a0Jacket<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise sent a message to fans after his long-awaited sequel \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d scored an \u201chistoric opening weekend\u201d not only for the actor, but in the history of Memorial Day box office openings as well. The 59-year-old actor\u2019s famed character Lieutenant Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell makes a return to the big screen after his debut &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1483308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}