Top Gun: Maverick breaks a 15-year Memorial Day box office record with $156M

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Just a day after it was revealed that Top Gun: Maverick earned star Tom Cruise's first ever $100 million opening weekend, the updated numbers revealed it has now broken a 15-year-old box office record.The early estimates for Top Gun: Maverick had put it easily in first place with $151 million, though now Monday's updated numbers put the four-day holiday weekend tally at $156 million, via Variety.The new numbers were big enough to best Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which opened to $153 million during the long weekend in 2007.

New record:Just a day after it was revealed that Top Gun: Maverick earned star Tom Cruise's first ever $100 million opening weekend, the updated numbers revealed it has now broken a 15-year-old box office record Box office:The early estimates for Top Gun: Maverick had put it easily in first place with $151 million, though now Monday's updated numbers put the four-day holiday weekend tally at $156 million, via VarietyTop Gun: Maverick - which follows Tom Cruise as he returns to reprise his character Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell from the 1986 classic Top Gun - already set another record over the weekend.The film opened in 4,732 North American theaters over the holiday frame, the widest release in cinematic history, besting the 2019 remake of The Lion King (4,725 theaters).

It also marks the second-highest debut of 2022, behind Marvel's Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which took in $187.4 million on the first weekend of May.

Maverick:Top Gun: Maverick - which follows Tom Cruise as he returns to reprise his character Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell from the 1986 classic Top Gun - already set another record over the weekend Wide release:The film opened in 4,732 North American theaters over.