Tag: Top Gun: Maverick

  • Tom Cruise Encourages ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Double Feature to Support Theaters

    Tom Cruise Encourages ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Double Feature to Support Theaters

    Tom Cruise is continuing to save movie theaters.Earlier this year, the “Top Gun: Maverick” star was praised by Steven Spielberg for having “saved Hollywood’s ass” at the box office. Now, Cruise has taken to Twitter to encourage audiences to see this year’s summer blockbusters on the big screen.“This summer is full of amazing movies to…

  • Evan Peters to Star in ‘Tron 3’ With Jared Leto

    Evan Peters to Star in ‘Tron 3’ With Jared Leto

    Evan Peters, star of “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “Mare of Easttown,” is joining Jared Leto in “Tron: Ares,” the third film in Disney’s extremely long-lived cyberspace franchise.Joachim Rønning (“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”) will direct the film from a script by Jesse Wigutow. Production is set for August (an actors strike notwithstanding).Along…

  • ‘Top Gun’ Filming Locations, Explained

    ‘Top Gun’ Filming Locations, Explained

    Ever wonder where the iconic 1986 action film Top Gun was filmed? Well…the sky. A lot of it was filmed in the sky, but not exclusively. Top Gun is a film that somehow manages to be wholly unrealistic yet entirely authentic at the exact same time. The combat scenarios that Top Gun and its hugely…

  • A sunset, a helicopter and Hayley Atwell’s nan: how Tom Cruise ruined romance

    A sunset, a helicopter and Hayley Atwell’s nan: how Tom Cruise ruined romance

    The age-defying, stunt-performing, cake-disseminating superstar has raised the bar once again when it comes to grand gestures. It’s time for the rest of us to step up – or give upUngainly title aside, it’s hard to see next month’s release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One as anything other than a huge lap…

  • Top Gun: Maverick: How the Filmmakers Brought Back Val Kilmer’s Voice

    Top Gun: Maverick: How the Filmmakers Brought Back Val Kilmer’s Voice

    While it was speculated that original Top Gun star Val Kilmer would be a part of last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, his exact role and how he would appear was kept tightly under wraps. While the star has overcome a battle with throat cancer which has affected his speech, an illness that Kilmer confirmed in…

  • Tobias Menzies Joins Brad Pitt in Formula One Apple Movie

    Tobias Menzies Joins Brad Pitt in Formula One Apple Movie

    Tobias Menzies will join Brad Pitt in Apple’s Formula One racing movie, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.Kerry Condon and Damson Idris were earlier announced to appear in the untitled feature from the filmmaking team behind

  • It’s June or Bust: This Month Will Determine the Summer Box Office

    It’s June or Bust: This Month Will Determine the Summer Box Office

    If Summer 2023 box office has a shot of meeting its optimistic $4 billion projection, the June movie lineup needs to step up. Since May 5, when the season began with Marvel release “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” receipts are down over five percent from last year. To achieve $4 billion, returns now through…

  • Angela Bassett Held Austin Butler’s Hand When Best Actor Was Announced — Even After Her Own Disappointment

    Angela Bassett Held Austin Butler’s Hand When Best Actor Was Announced — Even After Her Own Disappointment

    Angela Bassett took Lady Gaga’s “Top Gun: Maverick” lyrics literally and held the hand of her fellow acting nominee, Austin Butler.In a moving moment during the 2023 Oscars, the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Best Supporting Actress nominee Bassett held “Elvis” star Butler’s hand while his category was being read. Bassett had already lost earlier in…

  • Smoking Still Hogs the Spotlight at the Oscars (Guest Column)

    Smoking Still Hogs the Spotlight at the Oscars (Guest Column)

    Has a cigarette ever saved the the world, stopped a zombie apocalypse, made the best-dressed list, or helped the hero and heroine live happily ever after? No … not ever.That is why it is cause for concern for Project Truth Initiative and other public health organizations to see tobacco continuing to play a supporting role…

  • How to Watch the 2023 Oscars

    How to Watch the 2023 Oscars

    Hollywood’s biggest night is back! The 95th Academy Awards are set to take place this Sunday, March 12. The awards ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Jimmy Kimmel hosts the show for a third time, with presenters like Jonathan Majors, Florence Pugh, Jessica Chastain, and…