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Tom Cruise’s self-aware movie stardom in Top Gun: Maverick

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Wesley Stenzel on Tom Cruise’s self-aware movie stardom in Top Gun: Maverick… About twenty minutes into Top Gun: Maverick, a disheveled Tom Cruise is surprised to find himself in the most generic American diner imaginable. It’s filled with featureless white bread normal people who gaze upon his tattered otherworldly figure with amazement and disgust. Cruise […]

Top Gun: Maverick soars past $800 million to become Tom Cruise’s biggest ever movie

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Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise has reached new heights with Top Gun: Maverick, with the film passing the $800 million mark worldwide to become the actor’s highest-grossing movie at the global box office. By close of play on Thursday, the sequel to the 1986 action classic had earned $806.4 million, with $422.2 million domestic and $384.2 […]

Top Gun: Maverick hits Mach 10 at the box office with $248 million worldwide

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Top Gun: Maverick became not only one of the biggest pandemic-era box office successes, but it also gave Tom Cruise the largest opening of his illustrious career, as the 36-year in the making sequel soared to $248M worldwide over the weekend. Paramount have estimated that the critically revered sequel will end the Memorial Day weekend […]

Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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Top Gun: Maverick, 2022. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Manny Jacinto, Peter Mark Kendall, Jean Louisa Kelly, Lyliana Wray, Jake Picking, Kara Wang, and Raymond Lee. […]

Video Review – Top Gun: Maverick is the perfect summer blockbuster

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EJ Moreno with a video review of the Top Gun sequel… Top Gun Maverick feels like a throwback when summer blockbusters mattered. The latest film shows how to mix heart, spectacle, and intense action to make a sure-fire hit for everyone. This is the definition of “they don’t make them like this anymore.” Tom Cruise […]

Top Gun: Maverick cast discuss flying in real jets in new featurette

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With Top Gun: Maverick set to fly into cinemas this Friday, Paramount Pictures has released a behind-the-scenes featurette from the acclaimed sequel which sees Tom Cruise (Maverick) and new recruits Glen Powell (Hangman), Greg Tarzan Davis (Coyote), Lewis Pullman (Bob) and Monica Barbaro (Phoenix) discussing how it felt taking to the air in a fighter […]

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is back in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer

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With Top Gun: Maverick flying into cinemas this week [read our review here], Paramount Pictures has taken the opportunity to release a first look trailer for Tom Cruise’s next hotly-anticipated sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch the trailer here…  Mission: Impossible […]

Deadpool, Namor and Tom Cruise’s Superior Iron Man were considered for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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Warning: Spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness follow… We all knew that Doctor Strange’s foray into the Multiverse was set to produce some big cameos, but Marvel Studios and Sam Raimi’s sequel may have outdone itself with some huge surprises, including the likes of John Krasinski’s Reed Richards and Anson Mount’s Black […]

Top Gun: Maverick character posters feature Tom Cruise and the new recruits

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Paramount Pictures has revealed nine new character posters for Top Gun: Maverick, featuring Maverick (Tom Cruise), Rooster (Miles Teller), Phoenix (Monica Barbaro), Fanboy (Danny Ramirez), Hangman (Glen Powell), Payback (Jay Ellis), Cyclone (Jon Hamm), Coyote (Greg Tarzan Davies), and Bob (Lewis Pullman); check them out here… SEE ALSO: Tom Cruise sets a challenge in Top […]