While "Top Gun: Maverick" has been praised for bringing movies back to the big screen, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group co-presidents Sanford Panitch, and Josh Greenstein believe they deserve some of the credit as well. While speaking with Vulture, Greenstein said, “When we first started releasing movies last October, there were really no other big movies “Everyone had pushed their big movies to this year, to this summer. We took a big gamble putting ‘Venom’ in theaters. Then we doubled down with ‘Ghostbusters.’ Then our biggest bet was when every other tentpole had fled, we tripled down with ‘Spider-Man’ — our biggest, most important piece of IP."