Top Gun: Maverick soars past $1B at the global box office

Tom Cruise's latest movie Top Gun: Maverick achieved another impressive milestone at the global box office this weekend as it crossed the $1 billion mark, according to multiple reports. Meaning this is officially Tom's highest-grossing film of his career.

In addition to becoming the 59-year-old Risky Business actor's most successful film of all time, the sequel to 1986's Top Gun became the first movie of 2022 to reach that rare benchmark after just 31 days in theaters. 

With those ticket sales, the movie dethroned Marvel's superhero film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($943 million) as the highest-grossing movie of the year at the global box office

It's a particularly tremendous feat as the COVID-19 pandemic effectively quashed traditional box office numbers after nearly a quarter of all American movie theaters were closed for 15 months. 

Spider-Man: No Way Home, which garnered more than $1.89 billion, is the only other film to hit the $1 billion since coronavirus.