Two more deluxe coconut gateaux winged their way to me this year, without any begging. Evidence if ever it was needed of Cruise’s very hectic year
– The Rock’s latest film lost its studio $100m, Pixar hit the dirt twice and even Steven Spielberg’s big return found itself without a willing audience. But Top Gun Maverick bucked the trend with ease.
The biggest film of the year , Maverick has made $1.5bn in theatrical receipts alone. It is now the 11th biggest movie of all time, the second most successful movie that Paramount has ever made and comfortably the biggest money-maker of Tom Cruise’s career. Cruise is a 60-year-old man operating during a time when people would rather have their teeth pulled than go to the cinema. It is an extraordinary achievement.
He has also been busy in other areas. There is next year’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning to promote, which he has been doing in a myriad of gut-churning ways. There was the trailer drop, obviously, promising a film that makes 2018’s stupendouslook like a training run. But there was also the method in which he chose to present the trailer, hanging off the side of a speeding biplane so casually that it felt specifically designed to give you a tummy ache.
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