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Miles Teller says he’s spoken to Tom Cruise about Top Gun 3

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Top Gun: Maverick is a box-office and pop culture juggernaut. After nearly two months, it’s still dominating in cinemas and has comfortably passed the billion dollar mark at the box office, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2022 so far. A sequel is one of the most obvious moves ever, and it seems as if […]

Top Gun: Maverick soars past $1 billion to become 2022’s highest-grossing movie

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36 years after smashing the sound barrier and achieving mega-stardom with the original Top Gun, Tom Cruise had already scored the biggest hit of his career with this year’s legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick, and now the film has become the first release of 2022 to top $1 billion at the global box office, and […]

Tom Cruise hangs from a plane again in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning image

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In celebration of Tom Cruise’s 60th birthday on Sunday, director Christopher McQuarrie took to social media to share a new image from the hotly-anticipated action sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One which sees the actor pulling off another of his death-defying – and age-defying – stunts as he hangs from a plane (again). […]

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 […]