The enormous success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ seems to have no limits. We already knew that it had become the best box office premiere of the entire filmography of Tom Cruisebut it is also that now it has just surpassed a record that had been in the hands of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At the end of the world’ for 15 years.
The record in question is that of the highest-grossing film during the long weekend of Memorial Day, because that Monday is Memorial Day, which honors to all American soldiers who lost their lives serving in the US Army. Until now, the mark to beat was in the 153 million made by the film starring Johnny Depp in 2007, but the sequel to ‘Top Gun’ has managed to surpass that historic figure.
And it is that ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has gone to the $156 million in the same period as ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’. A real feat, especially in the current scenario in which attendance at movie theaters has not fully recovered from the effects caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The common point
It so happens that ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ have an important point in common, and I don’t mean that they are both sequels, but that the two films are produced by Jerry Bruckheimerthe same man behind titles as emblematic as ‘Super detective in Hollywood’, ‘The Rock’ or ‘Black Hawk Down’.