Tag: Top Gun
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Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Screen at Cannes Film Festival
Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” has been cleared for takeoff with a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival.As Variety predicted earlier this month, the “Top Gun” sequel will screen during the French fest, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.Described by Variety’s Elsa Keslassy as the “planetary blockbuster Thierry Fremaux has been dreaming of…
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Frank Pesce, ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Actor,’ Dies at 75
Frank Pesce, a character actor whose many credits include “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Midnight Run,” has died of complications from dementia, his girlfriend, Tammy Scher confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday. He was 75.“It’s very sad. He was loved by so many and had more friends than anyone I’ve ever known in my life.…
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Tom Cruise Is Feeling The Need To Tease Top Gun: Maverick In AFC Championship Pre-Game Message
What’s more American than football on a Sunday? Fans are in for quite the match up this afternoon as the Cincinnati Bengals face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2022 AFC Championship game on CBS and Paramount+. But before one of these two teams head to Super Bowl Lvi against either the Los…
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Have we witnessed the death of the Hollywood remake?
Meagre turnout for West Side Story shows that these days, the way to cash in on intellectual property is via sequels and rebootsSo far, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story hasn’t had audiences pirouetting and finger-clicking their way to cinemas. There are plenty of reasons why; the main one relating to a certain global pandemic. But…
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At 88, Tom Skerritt Finally Gets a Starring Role in ‘East of the Mountains’
In a 60-year career that’s seen him turn up in key supporting roles in hits like “Alien,” “Top Gun,” and “M*A*S*H*,” Tom Skerritt finally gets a starring role in a movie.The acclaimed actor is front-and-center in “East of the Mountains,” playing a retired heart surgeon who keeps his terminal cancer diagnosis a secret from his…
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Paramount Delays ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ & ‘Jackass Forever’ To New Dates In 2022
We’ll have to wait even longer to get our Tom Cruise fix from Paramount Pictures. The studio has further delayed the releases of both “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Mission: Impossible 7” along with “Jackass Forever.” This comes after multiple hiccups for the “Top Gun” sequel, with the release playing musical chairs for almost two years.Continue…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Tom Cruise Was “Really Adamant” That Val Kilmer Return For The Sequel
When Paramount announced plans to make a sequel to “Top Gun,” fans had some immediate questions. First, and perhaps foremost, is there going to be another volleyball scene? The answer might have to wait until we see the film on the big screen. And then secondly, in addition to Tom Cruise, would we see the…
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Val Kilmer’s Kids Jack and Mercedes Give Update on Their Dad’s Health: ‘He’s Doing Really Well’
“Val,” the new Amazon doc about the life of actor Val Kilmer, premiered on Wednesday night at the DGA in West Hollywood.Co-directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo assembled the film from footage that Kilmer shot over several decades. “This is over 50 years in the making,” Val’s son Jack told Variety. Daughter Mercedes said she…
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Obi Wan Kenobi’s Lightsaber, ‘Top Gun’ Bomber Jacket Among 900 Film Memorabilia at Prop Store Auction
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…