The last of the high-profile pandemic delayed blockbusters finally arrived in cinemas over the weekend, and Minions: The Rise of Gru celebrated its two-year wait by breaking the July 4th box-office record with a weekend take of $127.9 million. Animated family fare has been slow out of the blocks at the pandemic-era box-office, with solid […]
Tom Cruise’s self-aware movie stardom in Top Gun: Maverick
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 $1 billion to become 2022’s highest-grossing movie
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 […]
It’s a box office tie as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick take $30.5 million over the weekend
Number nerds will know that the last time a weekend box-office race was this close also involved a Tom Cruise movie, when Minority Report and Lilo & Stitch opened to $36M back in 2002. Well he’s at it again this weekend, because in its fifth weekend of release Top Gun: Maverick tied at the top […]
Maverick joins the Autobots with Transformers Collaborative Top Gun Mash-Up
Hasbro has unveiled its latest Transformers Collaborative Mash-Up action figure which features the iconic F-14 Tomcat from Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick. It goes on sale on October 1st, priced at $44.99; check out the promotional images here… Worlds collide in this Transformers-Top Gun mash-up pack! The iconic Grumman F-14 Tomcat jet from […]
Lightyear fails to soar to Maverick heights as Dominion dominates at the box office
Disney-Pixar blasted off at the box office for the first time since 2020’s Onward, hoping that brand recognition could drive their Toy Story spin-off to infinity and beyond, but sadly Lightyear was left in the wake of all-conquering dinosaurs and an F-18 pilot who refuses to lose altitude. Lightyear was expected to soar to around […]
Top Gun: Maverick soars past $800 million to become Tom Cruise’s biggest ever movie
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 […]
Jurassic World Dominion takes $389 million-sized bite of the worldwide box office
Despite less-than-favourable reviews and an F-14 currently wowing atop the box office, everybody still walked the dinosaur this weekend as Jurassic Park Dominion grossed a Gigantosaurus sized $389 million worldwide. Colin Trevorrow’s trilogy closer earned a whopping $143.4M at the domestic box-office, lifting it’s 10-day international total to $245.8M, and you don’t need to be an […]
The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI
Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]
Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at two of the best action films of the last decade, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick… There are great films. There are great action films. Attaining greatness through your action amounts to nailing your set pieces and imbuing proceedings, with just enough characterisation to give the propellant action some […]
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