Tag: Top Gun
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Kenny Loggins Recalls First Reaction to ‘Top Gun’ Volleyball Scene: ‘No One’s Gonna Write for That’
“Top Gun: Maverick” is one of the best received movie sequels in years, earning rave reviews from critics and dominating the box office on its opening weekend. Almost everyone seems to agree that it’s a major improvement over the original “Top Gun,” trading in the campy 1980s vibes for a more serious tone (by blockbuster…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ takes off at UK-Ireland box office with £11.2m opening weekend
The action sequel set a record opening for Paramount in the territory.Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (May 27-May 29) Total gross to date Week 1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) £11.2m £15.9m 1 2. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney) £1.37m £37.7m 4 3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) £467,496 £2.88m 3 4.…
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Top Gun: Maverick breaks box office records on opening weekend
Star Tom Cruise had his first 100m weekend and the belated sequel is fourth biggest opening since pandemic beganTop Gun: Maverick has outperformed expectations at the global box office, taking 248m (£196m) worldwide.The film, which sees the return of Tom Cruise’s hotshot pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, after the character was first introduced in 1986’s Top…
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Box Office: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Debuts to Stratospheric 124 Million
Tom Cruise may have pulled off one of the most daring stunts of his career — getting audiences to go to the movies for something that doesn’t involve superheroes.“Top Gun: Maverick” pulled in blockbuster ticket sales in its opening weekend, collecting 134 million from a record 4,732 North American cinemas. Paramount and Skydance’s all-American action…
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Top Gun: Maverick Spoiler Review: Tom Cruise Flies The Legacy Sequel Route
This review contains spoilers for “Top Gun: Maverick.”As it ushers in the summer movie season post-Memorial Day weekend, “Top Gun: Maverick” doesn’t break a lot of new ground for blockbusters, but that’s not really its mission. This is a legacy sequel, here to entertain, hit familiar beats (even some from outside the franchise), and repackage…
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Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel
Cinema’s favourite ageless fighter pilot returns with all the nail-biting aeronautics and emotional sucker punches that made the original an 80s-defining hitAnd we’re back. A full 36 years (including some Covid-related runway delays) after Tony Scott’s big-screen recruitment advert for US naval aviators became an epoch-defining cinema hit, Tom Cruise is back doing what he…
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Top Gun Was A Lie Told With Style
Tony Scott’s “Top Gun” is as spectacularly entertaining as it is terminally stupid. For a film glorifying the exploits of elite Navy fighter pilots, this is not necessarily a drawback. Released one year after “Rambo: First Blood Part II” ignited American audiences’ ardor for jingoistic blockbusters, “Top Gun” reaffirmed Tom Cruise’s superstar status, turned bomber…
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Miles Teller Is Totally Down To Make Top Gun: Rooster
A tentative “Top Gun: Maverick” sequel, “Top Gun: Rooster,” might grace our screens sometime in the future, at least according to Miles Teller, who plays Rooster in the upcoming “Top Gun” film. In an interview with ScreenRant, Teller spoke about the potential future of the “Top Gun” franchise, saying he wants to work in a…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Breakout Glen Powell Made a Cocky Fighter Pilot His Own After Losing Different Role
Glen Powell has been waiting for this moment. And waiting, and waiting. In the summer of 2018, the Texan actor, best known for roles in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!,” Best Picture nominee “Hidden Figures,” and Netflix’s breakout rom-com hit “Set It Up,” was up for a major part in the long-simmering “Top Gun” sequel.…