'Top Gun: Maverick' zooms past $800 million to become Tom Cruise's biggest ever hit

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Just shy of his 60th birthday on July 3, Tom Cruise officially has the biggest hit of his career in Top Gun: Maverick.

Riding high on a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film has flown past $800 million worldwide, besting his previous high water mark, 2018's Mission: Impossible - Fallout, which made over $791 million.

Maverick made more than $420 million from U.S. theaters to date, making it the highest-grossing film of the year, stateside.

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