Fans had to wait more than three decades for a sequel to Top Gun, with the highly anticipated Top Gun: Maverick finally hitting the big screen in May 2022.

It pulled in almost $1.5 billion ($1.7bn today) globally, despite being banned in China and Russia, making it the highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie of all time.

The action-packed sequel was also the second highest-grossing 2022 release, defeated only by Avatar: The Way of Water.

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