Paramount Gets Lift From ‘Top Gun’ but Streaming Losses a Drag

Paramount Gets Lift From ‘Top Gun’ but Streaming Losses a Drag
Actor Tom Cruise attends the premiere of 'Top Gun: Maverick' in London on May 19, 2022. Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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Paramount Global beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly revenue and profit on Thursday, powered by the May release of blockbuster Tom Cruise-starrer “Top Gun: Maverick” even as streaming subscriber growth slowed.

The sequel to the 1986 action flick “Top Gun” surged past Disney’s Marvel adventure “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” as the highest-grossing movie of the year and garnered $1 billion in global box office sales, bringing much needed relief to the film unit struggling since the pandemic outbreak.