Tag: Top Gun: Maverick
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Lawsuit: You Can’t Copyright Ideas, but Is There a Sequel Without That Article?
On Monday, Paramount Pictures celebrated its 357 million global box-office performance for “
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Paramount Faces Lawsuit Over Top Gun: Maverick Copyright Claim
“Top Gun: Maverick” has been flying some remarkably friendly skies since its Memorial Day weekend opening. The film took off theatrically in the U.S. with a stratospheric 160 million four-day gross, and dropped a mere 29 over its second weekend, the best-ever domestic hold for a movie that opened over 100 million. Backed by rave…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ rides high on second weekend at UK-Ireland box office with £10.3m haul
Action sequel drops just 8 on second weekend.RankFilm (distributor) Three-day gross (June 3 – June 5)Total gross to date Week 1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) £10.3m £30.6m 2 2. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney) £1.15m £40.3m 5 3. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) £455,000 £26.2m 10 4. The Bad Guys (Universal) £401,112…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Still Flying High in Sophomore Weekend with 86 Million While ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Roars Overseas
Another week, another box-office lesson. While the Memorial Day session reminded us that there are still such things as old-school Hollywood movie stars—the kind whose name on a marquee can single-handedly open a movie—thanks to the blockbuster debut of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, this week we were given a refresher course in the power…
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‘It Was a Different Disney By 2015’: Joseph Kosinski Says Big Franchises Helped Kill ‘Tron: Ascension’
Joseph Kosinski has quietly established himself as Hollywood’s top director of sequels that were 30 years in the making. The success of “Top Gun: Maverick” currently has him on top of the world, but it was not the first time he updated a 1980s classic for contemporary audiences. In 2010, Kosinski made his directorial debut…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Has a Secret Weapon Even Its Makers Didn’t Know About: A Great and Timely Villain (Hint: It’s Russia)
The striking if not really shocking success of “Top Gun: Maverick” is built around the simple fact that it’s an exquisitely executed blockbuster. It seems to have everything a commercial retro action movie would need: a prime movie star — one of the only ones left — who still knows how to fold a movie…
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Top Gun: Maverick Is Holding Strong With Massive 84.5 Million Second Weekend Box Office
It’s starting to feel like “Top Gun: Maverick” really did soar into theaters to save the movies. The first half of 2022 has been an inconsistent time for the box office as American moviegoers continued to figure out what movies they’re willing to risk the pandemic to see. There have been impressive hits, like “The…
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No, Top Gun: Maverick’s success isn’t down to being pro-America and anti-woke
Right-wing pundits have tried to claim the sequel’s box office success as their success but there are enough examples to show that this isn’t the caseTop Gun: Maverick is poised to continue its epic box office run this weekend; with no major competition at US multiplexes, it’ll soon zoom past the 250m mark in domestic…