Los Angeles, California - Top Gun: Maverick on Monday became the fifth-highest grossing movie of all time in its domestic market, moving ahead of Marvel’s 2018 hit Black Panther.

Top Gun: Maverick has now made $701 million in North America, while Black Panther took home $700 million during its theatrical run, according to Variety.

It’s the latest milestone for Top Gun: Maverick, which was already the top-earning Hollywood film of 2022 and boasts a worldwide gross of $1.4 billion.

The film serves as a long-awaited sequel to 1986′s original Top Gun, with Tom Cruise returning as the hotshot Navy pilot Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who must now train a new generation of aviators.

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Next up on the domestic list is James Cameron’s Avatar, which ranks fourth ever with $760 million in North America. It’s set to be rereleased in theaters later this month.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the biggest domestic movie of all time with a $936 million haul, while Avengers: Endgame ranks second with $858 million.

Last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home – the highest-grossing movie released during the Covid-19 pandemic – is third all-time after making more than $800 million domestically.

Top Gun: Maverick won a quiet four-day Labor Day Weekend, adding $7.9 million between Friday and Monday. It finished ahead of the rereleased Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had won the standard three-day weekend with $6 million between Friday to Sunday.

A sequel to Black Panther, titled Wakanda Forever, hits movie theaters in November. It will the franchise’s first film since star Chadwick Boseman died after a private battle with colon cancer in 2020.