Tom Cruise earned his first 100-million-dollar domestic opening weekend with the estimated $124 million debut of Top Gun: Maverick over the three-day weekend -- almost doubling his previous best. The film's debut gross is projected to hit $151 million by the end of the holiday weekend, just shy of the Memorial Day Weekend record holder, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which took in $153 million in 2007.
The sequel to 1986's Top Gun -- which also stars Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Connelly -- added an estimated $109.6 million overseas, bringing its worldwide opening tally to $260.6 million. That knocked last week's box office champ, Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, to second place with an estimated $16.4 million between Friday and Sunday and $21.1 through Monday. That brings the Doctor Strange sequel's four-week domestic box-office total to $375.5 million. Overseas, the film grabbed another $497.9 million, for a worldwide total of $873.4 million.
Coming in third was the week's other new major release, the animated Bob's Burgers, opening with an estimated $12.6 million over the three-day and $15 million after Monday.
Downton Abbey: A New Era came in fourth with an estimated $5.9 million between Friday and Sunday and $7.5 million over the four-day weekend. Its current North American take now stands at $30.1 million after two weeks. Overseas, A New Era has delivered $40.5 million, bringing its global tally to $70.6 million.
Rounding out the top five is Universal’s animated The Bad Guys with an estimated $4.6 million for the three-day weekend and just under $6.2 million through Monday.