On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins provide their final box office forecast for Top Gun: Maverick’s opening weekend. In the feature segment, we take a stroll into Tom Cruise’s box office history, looking back on his star persona and his films’ box office performance throughout the years.

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 03:13 Forecast for Top Gun: Maverick opening weekend
• 15:08 1981, Taps, first major role
• 17:50 1983, Risky Business
• 18:38 1985, Legend 
• 20:27 1986, Top Gun, The Color of Money
• 25:32 1988, Cocktail, Rain Man
• 27:50 1989, Born on the Fourth of July
• 31:22 1990, Days of Thunder
• 32:24 1993, The Firm
• 33:49 1994, Interview with a Vampire
• 35:14 1996, Mission: Impossible
• 40:00 1999, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia
• 47:01 2000, Mission: Impossible 2
• 50:58 Collaboration with Spielberg, Minority Report, War of the Worlds
• 52:02 2004, Collateral
• 54:32 2006, Mission: Impossible III
• 56:54 2007 Lions For Lambs
• 59:26 2008, Valkyrie
• 01:02:47 2011, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
• 01:04:17 2012, Jack Reacher
• 01:08:09 Dark Universe
• 01:11:53 2017, American Made
• 01:12:38 2018, Mission: Impossible Fallout