‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is about to give Tom Cruise his biggest opening ever

Tom Cruise, one of the top movie stars in Hollywood, is about to have the biggest opening weekend of his career.

“Top Gun: Maverick” — the sequel to the 1986 blockbuster — lands in theaters for the Memorial Day weekend. Cruise is reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the cocky fighter pilot who felt the need for speed 36 years ago.

The Paramount film — which has Cruise’s Maverick teaching a new class of Top Gun recruits — is expected to make roughly $120 million for its three-day opening. That will easily make “Maverick” the highest-grossing debut in Cruise’s 40 year career, overtaking “War of the Worlds,” which opened to $64.8 million in 2005.

CNN