The flight of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick from the July 4 corridor to Thanksgiving isn’t causing the panic that such a move would have prompted a few months ago.
While theater owners weren’t ecstatic to learn of Top Gun’s move, they’re confident there will be some semblance of a summer season based on a flurry of positive data regarding the recovery of the U.S.
box office. “You learn to roll with it. Other movies have moved in to that space,” says Patrick Corcoran, vp and chief communications officer at the National Association of Theatre Owners.
Within hours of Paramount’s Top Gun shift to Nov. 19, Universal snapped up the July 2 date for The Forever Purge. The decision to delay Top Gun, directed by Joseph Kosinski, isn’t a signal other.
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