Tom Cruise Could Make $100 Million For Top Gun: Maverick

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[@Ryan-zt2xw]

Top Gun Maverick, Collateral, Fallout, A Few Good Men, Edge of Tomorrow, Rain Man, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, I’m forgetting a few but Cruise has some truly great films on his resume. More than most actors

[@michelleannor6944]

Tropic Thunder, Taps, Jerry McGuire, A Few Good Men, Born on 4 July, Minority Report. And I don't even like Mission Impossible franchise.

[@Hinshu85]

The last Samurai.

[@brandonmottola9288]

Risky business ! Porsche there's no substitute

[@davidswint6110]

Vanilla Sky

[@brendansheehy8124]

Lions For Lambs

[@DillonRust]

Tom Cruise has made approximately $600 Million Dollars in royalty payments over his long and successful career, but $100 Million is still an insane and record breaking amount for a single movie payout. He deserves it for this film, Top Gun is one of the greatest Blockbusters of our time.

[@richierich7229]

He had already made $100 million off The War of the Worlds in 2005. And over $70 million for each of the first two Mission Impossible movies. I think.

[@sacmarv8997]

@@richierich7229 lol he has made almost more than 900 million from all his movies and other businesses before taxes...

[@steve11377]

Let's not forget Tom isn't just the actor he is a credited producer, he brought on Chris McQuarrie to work on the script, he brought on Joe Kosinski to Direct and he leads by example on every movie he is involved in. I don't think the younger actors would have been as involved in training had Tom himself not participated and lead. The reward is insanely huge but this guy busted his ass to get this movie to become a theatrical experience that the vast majority is loving.

[@leadlefthand]

Top Gun Maverick cost $170M to make, which means it would have needed at least double that amount to break even for Paramount. And then, Paramount needs to make $125M more on top of that before Tom Cruise could even sniff that 10% 1st-dollar gross. In short, Top Gun Maverick needed to make $465M minimum for it to have been a pretty reasonable deal for Tom Cruise. And before the first screenings of this film came out, how many people really banked on Top Gun Maverick making considerably more than half a billion when Tom Cruise's ceiling was $700M for MI Fallout? They say hindsight is 20/20 and we make the mistake of judging decisions made in the past based on the information we know now. So while it seems like Tom Cruise was very shrewed in his contract negotiations considering Top Gun Maverick might just end up grossing 1.3B when all is said and done (it's most likely breaking 1.2B this weekend), if we judge things from their perspective before 2020, Tom Cruise actually made a huge gamble. He went all in and won pretty big. That's really fair play to him.

[@leadlefthand]

@@joeybaseball7352 - Just because he's rich doesn't change the fact that it was still a big gamble. Plus, rich people are even more meticulous when it comes to profits and losses. And for an Actor like Tom Cruise, $12.5M as a base salary for the amount of work he put in even before production began, that's a pretty small number, especially when considering that Jack Nicholson was making far more than that in the 80s. At the end of the day, even the rich don't want to lose out on their income.

[@AceLopez1]

He should get paid $100 million. Top Gun 2 is a great movie and to me the best movie of the year so far.

[@IsaiasMGPalafox]

Finally went n saw TG: Maverick this past weekend. Tbh, I woke up Sunday morning, went on Twitter, saw it was Tom Cruise’s birthday, n said to my dad, “Morning, it’s Tom Cruise’s birthday, u wanna go c Maverick.?” 😂👏🏼 We both loved it from beginning to end. Even the message from Tom, before the film even started was sincere & heartwarming. Glad to c an actor of his caliber secure a big win like this. I’ll even b bold n say rn, that his Mission Impossible film coming out next year, that might do some big numbers as well. 💯💯

[@sjajsjsja4523]

Now that it's made over $1.4 bil, that's over a BILLION in profit when you account for the marketing budget. Paramount's walking away with over $900 MILLION. Trust me, they're thrilled.

[@seanmarquis2216]

Jack Nicholson got a similar deal for playing the Joker and made close to $100 million in the 80's. This would be a lot more than Cruise if we account for inflation.

[@brantkim]

If the choice for Paramount was either paying Cruise $100 million or either not making the film or not making the film with him then I would pay the $100 million. If Cruise were not involved this would have been a weak sequel that would have been done with a ton of CGI and considered a flop.

[@nowings45]

Paramount still prob made around 600 to 700 million after they paid everybody. Win win..

[@byron7583]

Good, give him all the money, one of the only few people left delivering quality entertainment these days

[@jetfire97.]

This was an awesome movie, glad to see the success. Just left the theater today from seeing it for the 11th time. My new favorite movie.

[@raziel4235]

I couldn't be more happy for this, because there are people hating on him for believing in aliens, while he comes up like a genuinely nice guy. Oh, and Im sure he's wipping his tears now with his 100.000.000£ share of the movie profits

[@byron7583]

He's also saved a few people's lives. Can't remember the specifics but it's all documented I believe. A genuinely good person

[@algebraisking1235]

Well, Tom Cruise has made over $1b in career earnings as per a recent Forbes article and he doesn’t even do ads or sponsorships. His only income source is his salary and producing credits on stuff like MI, Jack Reacher & Top Gun. He makes over $70m for the MI movies too. For his space movie which is about to start shooting, Cruise will make a $60m salary upfront along with backend points. So, John’s “His income on Top Gun probably exceeds his combined salary on all his other movies” is way off lol…

[@adasga]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@kamimuerte4898]

#2 will smith 100 mil for MIB 3 #1 Bruce Willis 115 mil 6th sense actor/producer MEL GIBSON 300 mil PASSION OF THE CHRIST

[@bobbyvee9950]

It makes me think of Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, "Show me the money!"

[@fairtreatment2618]

It’s at 1.1 billion and that’s without the Chinese, proving China isn’t needed if you make a good movie. Stick to your morals

[@ElPhenomenon]

The comic book movies do they make most there money form china/ international

[@legoguru3000]

Fuck yeah

[@fingerprints2983]

1.183

[@sacmarv8997]

its 1.4 billion now😆

[@Julian-p7q-b4t]

1.5 billion WITHOUT CHINA!!! With China it would be 2 billion.

[@christiansmith7879]

After thor love and blunder I need me some top gun 2 again. Its the perfect palette cleanser. Cause thor 4 was just meh

[@julianeze90]

Bruh at this point Hollywood needs Tom Cruise more than Tom Cruise needs Hollywood after the highs of that movie to follow up my next cinema jaunt with that steaming pile of mediocrity smh but it's to be expected when a movie puts more emphasis on making female characters look strong than an actual plot - Thor doesn't need to team up with the guardians or hulk like or dr strange when he has strong wahmen by his side smh

[@ToneDesh]

TC is a fucking movie star! Deserves it all.

[@hardikpremani165]

The day when this news of *"Tom Cruise gets $100 Million for Top Gun: Maverick"* is made official by THR or Variety, the whole damn internet will break. I am waiting for that day.

[@edmundkemper1625]

You are a soothsayer man ! damn!

[@ibnusaus2471]

Tom will get the Oscar for lifetime achievement award for what he’s done for Hollywood... and I think that’d be a far better achievement than the elusive best actors award for this legend..

[@umeshralekar5543]

Tom cruise is nothing in front of SRK World biggest moviestar King 👑 khan

[@ibnusaus2471]

@@umeshralekar5543 the world dont care about your Indian actor.. stop clout chasing for him.. everyone here is talking about Tom Cruise

[@sarahyambao6454]

@@umeshralekar5543 Who?

[@swarnavsinha6442]

@@ibnusaus2471 guys i am indian and i say don't give that guy a f*ck he is just a pr guy for srk. Srk has given 9 back to back flops and disasters since 9 years. What tom cruise do srk can't do in his whole life.

[@cocofrancecisco2188]

Tom's accumulated salaries through the years would amount to MORE than a hundred million dollars. He used to earn 20 to 25 million per movie.

[@gmnew123]

It's over a billion dollars. Forbes released an article a few days earlier. He also makes like $75m for each Mission Impossible

[@daryltgeorge]

@@gmnew123 exactly. He would have made waaaay more than $100 million the mission impossible franchise alone

[@mato9495]

No problem. Tom is creating more value and is a superstar and a true Hollywood star. I am looking forward to his future success.

[@shatendraseethiah2217]

It's the sequel to a 36 years old movie. No one expected it to make over $1.1 billion. The major factor that played into such a huge win is that's the movie that brought back the older demographic to the theatres.

[@captaingti]

New Top Gun Maverick movie was the best movie of the decade. I can't wait to buy it on DVD after seeing it in the theaters.

[@richierich7229]

You still buy DVDs? You're a legend.

[@MrFlick_04]

Get the 4K not dvd

[@plo617]

He earned every penny. The man was probably handed 100s (at least) of subpar scripts over the decades for this sequel and could've easily cashed in long ago. He is the heart and soul of this film/franchise. Without Tom, this would've been another typical action film. Love him or hate him, this man aims to make films that people enjoy. Whatever check he's getting for this film, he probably deserves even more. This film would simply not be as good or make as much money without Tom being in it. Especially with the level of control that he has gained throughout his extraordinary career, to make the demands that propelled this film past typical sequel fluff to a film that even leaves the original in the dust.

[@heyallison]

Do an open spoiler discussion for Top Gun: Maverick, please! I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday. My theater was FULL. On the Saturday of Thor: Love and Thunder's opening weekend.

[@Julian-p7q-b4t]

Nobody cares about the Marvel movies, then Maverick runs in the cinema. 😂👍

[@benm5970]

Tom Cruise is looking to buy a space shuttle and fly all the way to Mars to film Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 2 there

[@elenavorobeva6747]

We all know - show him the money!

[@jimclay1969]

John and gang. I"m almost positive that Tom Cruise made almost $100 million for Jerry Maguire back in 1996. He made SO much upfront, SO much on the backend, and SO much on rental ( I believe I read in Entertainment Weekly that he was the first actor to ever get a % of rental fees) and vhs and DVD sales. I may be off a little but I remember reading about that and just about $Xitting my pants.

[@shanebigfella7884]

Tom Cruise is Legend. Love the guy 🍻

[@4loops43]

Just pay the man! Best movie in years and the only time I never whined about the cost of going to a theatre …just take my money!

[@stringer2295]

I’m happy for him because that movie was amazing

[@ResidentNotEvil5]

Of course Tom cruise work hard for it and very good movie

[@nidhinsdharan6449]

I want a les grossman spin off.

[@devonleaston4862]

Same here fr

[@AM-ol8be]

Get that bag Tom

[@liamhemstock2286]

That’s a stupid amount of money. But you know what, good for him. You don’t get what you deserve (no person deserves a $100 million pay day) you get what you negotiate. Congratulations to Tom on this one.

[@ghostland8646]

$100 mils pay day is from hard work. Top gun 2 take 4 years to its release day. Lots of time and hard work

[@RoguePatience]

Patience pays off.

[@hothotheat3000]

And he earned every penny.

[@delevingne8691]

Am I the only one that saw Top Gun: Maverick without seeing the original film? 👀

[@Shagdra]

Nope 😂

[@wrldtrvlr4vr]

Well deserved Tom! Paramount made a crap load of money too!!

[@michelleannor6944]

The era of actors getting $15-20m a movie is almost over. Just +Cruise +Hanks +Brad Pitt, +DiCaprio, +The Rock and +Mark Wahlberg (no longer Will Smith since Oscar punch). +RDJ only earns the crazy money in MCU/ Iron Man. Not many actresses outside of Sandra Bullock, Emma Watson, Emma Stone and Scarlett Johansson.

[@rl8259]

Leonardo Dicaprio and Jennifer Lawrence literally made 20M+ from Dont Look Up also Tom Holland will get RDJ money for his next trilogy

[@Julian-p7q-b4t]

Tom Cruise is way richer and more famous than Emma Watson.

[@ishaankumar1920]

Well,he also produce the film and one can't imagine this film being so good without him so ..

[@Monster-ql7kz]

And another thing. I think hell get more than 10 percent. I'd say 12 to 15% plus that 12.5 million. So end of the day he can make over 150 millions for this one movie.

[@slashstg]

Show me the money has a whole new meaning now

[@masonteague4039]

Seen it 8 times!!!!!

[@daryltgeorge]

Tom cruise for sure has made more than $100 million in previous movies. In fact am sure he's made that from mission impossible series alone

[@SuchetB]

I remember Jack Nicholson made more for BATMAN as he not only got paid millions for it but he got a share of the profits not only for BATMAN but also because his contract stipulated he would get shares of the profits of it's sequels. Also I think Tom was pushing this for theatres just as much as he did for previous movies he has done and does with all of his other movies. A real movie star.

[@Spartan-oj9dc]

Tom cruise could make 100 million but it's not as of he needs this money he's super rich anyway

[@Julian-p7q-b4t]

And Tom is the world's most famous actor.

[@barak-rocky-giles2081]

Didn't Keanu Reeves wind up making like $300 million from the Matrix movies? Or am I wrong?

[@gudduentertains]

Yes, he did.

[@obarbeito]

Jack Nicholson made $90 million from Batman in 1989... in todays money, that's roughly a bit more than $200 million...

[@LexusTX]

He deserves every dollar, his performance was top tier.

[@richard77231]

This is an instance where Tom Cruise the producer pushed against release on streaming to benefit Tom Cruise the actor.

[@accordgolfer]

And the movie going audience

[@Sohaib19874]

he takes a percentage of most of his movies so he makes 50-60 million every movie he makes

[@matthewjohnson6886]

Fair play to Tom Cruise. I say give him more money! I wanna see him do more crazy shit. Great balls of fire WOOO! 😂

[@nashpv]

@@joeybaseball7352 what’s wrong with that? Did Scientology genocide natives like Christians and Islam done. I still believe Scientology is most peaceful religion after Buddhism

[@cantdance3077]

LOVED the movie. Seen it twice. Would've seen it third and fourth time if I wasn't broke.

[@Luthien-Numenesse]

Why mind boggling ? Ppl been consuming silly marvel movies for decade now and getting sick of it .. this was abt to happen eventually but Maverick was at the right place atthe right time

[@JohnFisherChoir]

it is well deserved Mr Cruise, well done and enjoy it!

[@linusgoh3365]

Movie making is highly profitable if you are a famous actor. Hollywood movies are for international audiences. He is an international celebrity and english being an international language is an advantage. He started out as a young relatively unknown but then Top gun came along and it propels him to international stardom. dvantage. He is young when he started out and this film just gave him an opportunity to showcase his Talents. He is a perfectionist and no one in Hollywood can measure up even today.

[@johnnynitetrain32379]

I thought being a whacky Scientologist would always sink his career at some point. But it never happened. He just got bigger and his movies made more money.

[@Cbriggs502]

@@Marksman3434 Bingo unlike most celebrities cruise kept his mouth shut let it blow over and bury himself in his work and continued to make great movies and stayed out of politics or controversial topics that ultimately led to him being back in the public good graces 👍

[@sarahyambao6454]

He has learned his lesson and now knows how to separate his personal from his professional life.

[@TGF25]

@@Marksman3434 Idk about that because even during that 2004-05 era, War of the Worlds was still successful when the media/Hollywood was turning on him! When he's laser focused, Tom Cruise is the Golden Boy of Hollywood, because his AUDIENCE says so!

[@SuperJohn12354]

It’s not a super hero movie, it’s not woke and character driven , alternatives? Of course it was going to make billions

[@possessededdy5274]

Tom Cruise deserves every single dollar.

[@abhi5540]

@@joeybaseball7352 You are commenting this under every comment here. If you hate Tom Cruise, then keep the hate within yourself. Don't spread it.

[@abhi5540]

@@joeybaseball7352 What that says is that you are spamming hate everywhere.

[@sarahyambao6454]

He is earning a lot prior to this movie. Mission Impossible.

[@randallcartwright7886]

He deserves every cent of that $100M

[@anish.602]

The Biggest movie star & the last of the stars !!

[@JayPatrol]

Collateral was an awesome movie With Jamie Fox They both were excellent in that movie!

[@gloriathomas3245]

This is largely why Neve Campbell isn't doing Scream 6...she probably wasn't getting a 1st dollar profit sharing deal. In fact this seems to be the norm these days when you have in-demand actors doing big budget films. The end result is studios casting cheaper talent.

[@Julian-p7q-b4t]

Top Gun Maverick alone made more money than the whole Scream franchise. 😂😂

[@stryker-4733]

I think this movie did more well than they actually expected and I think that is very good especially with the times in the pandemic era that we are in that is a big chunk of change that Tom Cruise has gotten and it wouldn't surprise me if he'll be up for a Grammy when it's all said and done

[@phillyman2837]

Why is this newsworthy? Rich guy gets rich🤷

[@bobdole3251]

Historic pay day for a single role in a movie 🍿

[@davidwatson3456]

Minus half for theater's take off the top, Minus production budget, marketing, Taxes will be half.

[@isaacxcii4289]

I can say it's well deserved, he's in a league of his own

[@MeisterGlanz86]

50 Million for Scientology`s Piggy Bank.

[@bladerunner27x]

There are 2 factors everyone is forgetting, 1. This movie was originally was supposed to come out during the pandemic 2. This movie has basically sat on the shelf for 2 years.

[@israelc5320]

Yea which means the contract was probably done before COVID even started

[@nvignesh]

3. He is also a producer for this movie so he invested money in it

[@norwegiankryptonian8338]

I first read the thumbnail; «Tom Cruise got laid»

[@linusgoh3365]

This film shows the power of the Us military and it is just an advertisement for the Us military.

[@arbeedv2722]

I forwarded this link to tom guys 😄😄

[@eddiehizo5682]

Tom Cruise next movies should be "Force 10 from Navarone" with an all star cast with him directing it.

[@dtsai]

"Top Gun 3: WW3!" spin offs "Top SEAL 1" and "Top Gun 4: Son of a Gun!"

[@dterr41958]

I agree!!

[@edwinperez249]

I guess everyone chose the wrong job. Actors paycheck is crazy

[@arbeedv2722]

SURI CRUISE ALSO MADE A DEAL LIKE THIS with his dad for child support...😄😄

[@jacobjslee]

I think Mel Gibson made more from The Passion of the Christ if memory serves me correctly.

[@JCIce007]

I think that's correct, but he essentially owned that movie outright. And he wasn't an actor in it.

[@kristinab3838]

I believe Mel Gibson self-financed the Passion of the Christ

[@edmundkemper1625]

He did!

[@islandrepublic9166]

This is the “ IF I CAN GUARANTEE YOU WIN 500 million dollars in lottery will you give me 10 million” syndrome!!

[@stubbsj77]

He deserves it Imagined it Piloted it Produced it Pushed it not to release streaming Now tom do rogue squadron Haha

[@dazkurt2331]

Alec Guinness made over 95 million from star wars over subsequent yrs, and after his death.

[@Mohammed_Gidado]

Paramount 🤦

[@markusgarcia4136]

Happy for Tom!!

[@michelleannor6944]

For Whiplash Miles Teller received just $8000

[@Sam-zx4hd]

Yeah i was also very shocked when i heard about it. So much efforts for just 8000$

[@unitedstatesofamerica9948]

That's ridiculous, for any lead of a mainstream movie, that's BS

[@mato9495]

he was paid $700,000 for Spiderhead and $3.5 million for Top Gun: Maverick.

[@ultron.ver.1979]

My understanding is he has received three 100m paydays on previous movies. Will Smith also received 100m pay day on MiB3.

[@crhisduarte9382]

well since i found out that the box office was screwed up and the real box office is 929 million i think not over payed

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Good joke

[@mashu1766]

And he should give that £100 mill to the producers of the mummy.lol

[@edmundkemper1625]

you had me there!

[@unusualretail]

L Ron Hubbard and Tom Cruise split it 50/50.

[@richierich7229]

Lmao

[@Zeltaris]

That was my first thought.

[@edwardlewis6352]

Church of scientology is getting a fat paycheck off this movie!

[@vicp99]

Not crying any tears for paramount corporate. They made pleeeenty of $$$ as well. I would like to see Tom do something nice for society, a nice donation somewhere, but besides Scientology 😜. Well as nutty as he is he makes good movies!

[@thadkayne]

he did do something nice for society....... ever heard of Top Gun: Maverick?

[@vicp99]

@@thadkayne Haha got me there! Yeah I really loved it, what a great movie

[@thadkayne]

@@vicp99 haha. jokes aside, it truly is a gift I believe

[@AnferneeMyers]

10:32 that’s a bar from Rob, right there.

[@joehurst6250]

This pandemic (lockdown) has taught so many people the importance of having multiple streams of income ,unfortunately having a job doesn’t seem to guarantee total financial stability rather having a different investment is the real deal.

[@liliamrodriguez3020]

Great video

[@joshuakuruvilla]

7:55

[@crhisduarte9382]

then how come here in new york the cinemas havent soled out in 2 years so dont read into anything

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

so one or two theatre of new york is equal to rest of world?) lol