More than 900 pieces of iconic film and TV memorabilia worth $5.6 million will be available at the next Prop Store auction on Dec. 1 and 2.The pieces on auction include Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber, used by Ewan McGregor from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” (2005) that is estimated to sell for between $103,000-$155,000; Pete […]
Continue readingIn the late 1970s, when Hollywood was in the middle of its most seismic transformation since the collapse of the studio system, there was a much-talked-about trend that seemed to fit all too snugly into the new world order. That was the arrival of hotshot British movie directors who had honed their craft in the […]
Continue readingFans will have to wait until next year to see the sequels to “A Quiet Place” and “Top Gun.”Both movies were part of a release date shakeup from Paramount on Thursday night. “A Quiet Place Part 2,” starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, will release in theaters on April 23, 2021, instead of Sept. 6, […]
Continue readingTop Gun: Maverick is due to fly into theaters this December, but if your need for speed remains unsatisfied, can I interest you in…a toy? Hasbro and Paramount have created a Top Gun Transformers crossover character called Maverick. If you’re hoping this will be a jet fighter that transforms into a giant Tom Cruise, I’m […]
Continue readingUniversal has decided to reboot the classic 1990s disaster movie Twister, although it remains to be seen whether the studio is in it for the money and not the science. Variety reports that Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski will take on the new tornado film. My colleague Tom Reimann described it in much more […]
Continue readingStar Wars trailer mash-ups are a dime a dozen, but sometimes a special one comes along that reminds you how much fun the internet can be. In this case, we have a montage of epic space battle footage prominently featuring the X-wing starfighter that the Rebel Alliance and the Resistance used so frequently, and it’s […]
Continue readingIn a non-covid-19 world, we’d be only weeks away from seeing Tom Cruise suit up as Maverick one more time in “Top Gun: Maverick.” Unfortunately, the global pandemic had other things in mind and the film has been delayed from its summer release to December of this year. That being said, we’ve already waited more […]
Continue readingIt’s about time we talked about Top Gun, not because the Tony Scott-directed movie turned 34 years old on May 16 or because we were, once upon a time, fully ready for Top Gun: Maverick to hit theaters this summer. No, the real reason we need to talk about Top Gun is because we need […]
Continue readingListen: I’m begging you to read this Daily Beast excerpt from Val Kilmer’s memoir I’m Your Huckleberry in full, and then I’m begging you to read the full book available now, and then I’m begging you to listen to the audiobook narrated, of course, by Will Forte. The chapter excerpted from the talented, eccentric actor’s […]
Continue readingJock aversion stopped one writer from catching the Tom Cruise film that launched a thousand action sequences. But how is a film so influential so unimaginative?See the other classic missed films in this seriesThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationIn 1986, I was 15 and gorging myself on movies of every stripe, so why did […]
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