Paramount Pictures
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| Parent organizations | Viacom |
|---|---|
| Ceo | Jim Gianopulos |
| Founded | Hollywood |
| Los Angeles | |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Subsidiaries | Nickelodeon Movies |
| Paramount Players | |
| Founders | Adolph Zukor |
| William Wadsworth Hodkinson | |
| Jesse L. Lasky | |
| Did you know | The movie used both 2D and 3D animation, and was made by Paramount Pictures. |
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| ID | 844695 |
About Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.
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Top Gun: Maverick gives Tom Cruise first $100m opening weekend
The new Top Gun movie has given Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise his first $100 million (£79m) opening weekend at the Box Office .
Top Gun : Maverick sees him reprise his role as US navy pilot Pete " Maverick" Mitchell from the original 1986 film.
In its first Three Days in North American theatres, the sequel earned an estimated $124 million (£98m) in ticket sales, Paramount Pictures said Sunday.
Worldwide, that figure is raised to an estimated $248 million (196m).
" These results are ridiculously, over-the-top fantastic, " said Chris Aronson, Paramount's president of domestic distribution.
" I'm happy for everyone. I'm happy for The Company , for Tom, for The Filmmakers . "
Cruise's previous biggest opening weekend for A Movie came in 2005 with War of the Worlds, which raked in $64 million (£50m).
The 59-year-Old 's second outing as Maverick also had The Fourth biggest opening of any film in the Covid-era, behind The Best -selling Spider-Man: No Way Home, second-placed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness And Then The Batman .
He was joined by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for the new film's UK premiere recently.
The original movie flew high above The Competition , topping last Wednesday's weekly UK film chart, as Fans - Young and Old - prepared for the official release of the sequel Last Friday .
Becca Monahan, commercial director of the Official Charts Company said it was " fantastic to see Tom Cruise back in The Skies again after 36 years".
" That the original Top Gun has made history by getting to Number One on the Official Film Chart and that many of those sales were digital downloads is a great achievement, " she noted.
Liz Bales, chief executive of The British Association for Screen Entertainment agreed, saying she expects that the sequel " takes cinema audience's breath away on the big screen" - a nod to the Original Film 's Oscar-winning song.
Critics praised The Return of Top Gun : Maverick earlier this month, calling it a " barrier-breaking sequel".
The Independent called it " as thrilling as blockbusters get" praising it as a " true legacy sequel".
The Telegraph called it " absurdly exciting" and " unquestionably The Best studio action film in years".
Source of news: bbc.com
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