Tom Cruise bet on himself with Top Gun: Maverick - and that bet is about to pay off big time.
With Maverick topping $1 billion in global box office revenues, Cruise is in line for a major payday.
That's because his contract pays the actor a relatively small (for Cruise, at least) $12.5 million salary - in exchange for "10 percent of the movie's first-dollar gross".
Hollywood analysts estimate Cruise could end up banking somewhere between $60-100 million for Maverick when all is said and done.
Have to admit, I loved the movie and could watch two or three more times...with no problem!