The reason why Cruise's salary blows his contemporaries out of the water is that his deal with Paramount allows him to earn first-dollar gross. To help put Cruise's enormous salary into perspective, coming in at second on Variety's list of highest movie star salaries is Will Smith, who earned $35 million for the escaped-slave thriller Emancipation. Cruise received a $2 million salary for the first film. Amazingly, that figure is more than half of Maverick's $170 million production budget and more than six times the budget for the original Top Gun, which was just $15 million in 1986. According to Variety, Cruise's estimated salary for Top Gun: Maverick is a whopping $100 million. Now, a new report reveals just how much Cruise has pocketed from those incredible box office earnings. Related: Top Gun 3 Risks Undoing Maverick's Perfect Ending To date, the film has raked in a total of $1.2 billion worldwide. Last week, Top Gun: Maverick broke another box office record by surpassing Titanic to become Paramount's highest-grossing movie domestically. After an opening weekend that surpassed the $100 million mark, the film continued to put up strong numbers at the box office, eventually passing the $1 billion mark to become Cruise's biggest movie ever. Since premiering in theaters on May 27, Top Gun: Maverick has proven to be a veritable box office phenomenon.
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