By Rebecca Rubin

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com – Top Gun: Maverick has been a hot box office hit… yet again.

Tom Cruise’s all American action film, “Danger in Paradise”, earned $86 Million from its second weekend. These returns are among the 10 most successful second weekends of domestic box office history.

Paramount’s Skydance movie is surpassing important box office milestones with record speeds, pandemic or not. Only 10 days after its debut, “Top Gun: Maverick”, has already earned $291 millions in North America and $548.6million globally.

The positive word of mouth and rave reviews as well as premium screens resulted in ticket sales dropping only 32% from “Top Gun: Maverick’s $160million debut during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Comscore reports that this is the most significant second-weekend decrease for movies with openings exceeding $100 million. This is a remarkable benchmark, even for a movie that has been reviewed. Blockbusters like “Maverick” tend to drop 50% or more after their opening weekend. Comparatively, Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness both dropped 67% during their second weekends, Robert Pattinson’s Batman fell 50%, and “Eternals” plummeted 62%.

Surprisingly, Cruise’s film “Top Gun: Maverick”, surpassing 2005’s record of “War of the Worlds,” ($243 million, has become the highest grossing movie at the domestic box-office.

Paramount’s domestic distribution president Chris Aronson stated in a note sent to the press, “It’s never been more appropriate” to declare that “Top Gun: Maverick’s sky’s not the limit.”

Although “Maverick,” which was viewed more than any other film, won’t be able to catch the eye of many. David Cronenberg’s horror movie “Crimes of the Future”, though, opened with a limited distribution. Neon launched the film to $1.1million from 773 theaters. This translated to an average $1,423 per locale. Kristen Stewart stars in the darkly comic “Crimes of the Future”, which was premiered this year at the Cannes Film Festival.

The North American box-office charts were unaffected by any major studio releases. “Top Gun: Maverick,” however, enjoyed free reign. The top two to five spots went to holdovers “Doctor Strange” sequel and “The Bob’s Burgers Movie,” as well “The Bad Guys” (and “Downton Abby: A New Era.”

Second place went to “Doctor Strange: The Multiverse of Madness”, which earned $9.3 Million from 2,430 locations between Friday and Sunday. The Marvel film has now been in cinemas for five weeks and earned $388.7million domestically, as well as a staggering $909.4million globally. The ninth highest grossing Disney film, Doctor Strange 2, is not available in Russia or China, two of the most important international markets. The film also ranks as the top-grossing global release and the second-largest earner during the pandemic.

The second season of “The Bob’s Burgers Movie,” which was produced by 20th Century and Disney, remained at third. We saw ticket sales drop 64% from 325 cinemas to $4.5million, taking its North American total to $22.2 million. The No. Universal’s animation heist comedy “The Bad Guys,” which earned $3.3million from 2,872 locations, was No. 4. The film’s total gross has reached $87 million.

Three million dollars from 3471 theatres made the sequel to “Downton Abbey” round out the top five. North America’s “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” has made $34million since its debut. It cost $40 million to make the sequel to “Downton Abbey”, which means the latest “Downton” adventure still has a long way to go before reaching the black.

Elsewhere, A24’s little-indie-that-could “Everything Everywhere All at Once” crossed $60 million domestically in its 11th weekend of release. It landed on home entertainment the following weekend, expanding to 1,434 cinemas. The film grossed $2,000,000, a decline of 18% over the previous weekend. According to A24, “Everything Everywhere At Once”, a genre-bending film that aims to transcend “Hereditary,” will surpass it ($80 million), to be A24’s top-grossing movie worldwide. Already, it is the studio’s top-grossing domestic film. It recently passed “Uncut Gems,” which was worth $50 million.