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Streaming services have taken a giant leap ever since millions of users found their way to Netflix and other platforms. After 2020, people had forgotten the theater experience of watching a movie.
Hollywood has seen a lot. While high-budget films failed at the box office and minimalistic movies picked up Oscars, fans were quite shocked when Tom Cruise’s iconic sequel surpassed a brilliant film by Christopher Nolan.
Christopher Nolan and the story of his lowest rated movie
It was 2020 when the world was shut down. Theaters were empty, streets were empty, and nature had begun to take over the world again. Amidst these difficult times, the Covid outbreak began to weaken during the end of 2020.
That’s whenChristopher Nolanand Warner Bros. Pictures decided to bring back audiences to theaters by releasingTenet.Unfortunately, the 2020 film did not draw a crowd into theaters and to top it off, the film wasn’t even considered that great by fans and critics alike.
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According to stats onIMDb,Tenethad a budget of $205 million and it managed to earn a total of $365 million from the global box office. This was one of Nolan’s biggest failures and although there were many external factors involved in this, it put a little stain on the director’s highly-accomplished career.
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Tenetis also the lowest-rated movie by Christopher Nolan on Rotten Tomatoes since it currently stands at a rating of 69% Critics score. People thought thatNolan’s film would be enough to bringthe world back to the theaters once again. However, it was veteran actor Tom Cruise’s iconic 2022 film that brought the world back to theater screens and off of their streaming services.
It was Tom Cruise who saved theaters and Hollywood
It was a tough thing for people to go out after seeing the world being shut down for quite a while. Theaters were going empty, millions had shifted to watching movies from the comfort of their homes and had forgotten the theater experience.
During this tumultuous time, veteran starTom Cruisedecided to giveTop Gun: Mavericka spin on the theater ride. Choosing to release the film exclusively in theaters, Cruise made a gamble in hopes of bringing people back to theaters.
Fortunately, the gamble worked, and perIMDb, the film crossed the billion-dollar mark by earning a whopping $1.495 billion at the global box office. Even veteran director Steven Spielberg thanked the actor (viaIndependent) for saving“Hollywood’s a**”.
You saved Hollywood’s a**. And you might have saved theatrical distribution. Seriously. Maverick might have saved the entire theatrical industry.
The rest, as we know it, pretty much remained unchanged. Although people are still consuming content from the comforts of their home,Top Gun: Maverickgave people the real feel of what it was like to watch a movie in a theater.
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The iconic film currently stands at a rating of 8.2/10 on IMDb and a whopping 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.Top Gun: Maverickis available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
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