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40th Anniversary Trailer

Top Gun(1986)
Released
1986 · FILM

Top Gun

Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a reckless U.S. Navy fighter pilot, must confront his past and master his arrogance when he's sent to Top Gun to train as a weapons expert, facing off against the best pilots in the fleet in high-stakes aerial combat.

“Up there with the best of the best.”

Directed by
Tony Scott
Written by
Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
110 min
ActionDrama
Streaming on
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  • Paramount+

Synopsis

For Lieutenant Pete

Credits

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 36

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Chris LebenzonShot by Jeffrey L KimballScored by Harold FaltermeyerDesigned by John Decuir Jr

Box Office

1986 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 24× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$356.8M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$356.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $176.8M — 50% of worldwide · International: $180.0M (50%)

Opening weekend: $8.2M — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.2M — 7% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,028 theaters

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Re-release box office

2021153 theaters
$686K($837K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Top Gun - Sie fürchten weder Tod noch Teufelde
  • Top Gun: Ídolos del airees

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