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

June 28, 2022 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Maverick joins the Autobots with Transformers Collaborative Top Gun Mash-Up

June 25, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Toys Tagged With: hasbro, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, Transformers

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

June 17, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema

June 8, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Charlize Theron, George Miller, Jennifer Connelly, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Tom Hardy, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

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

May 30, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Joseph Kosinski, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

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

May 27, 2022 by EJ Moreno

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 […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Jake Picking, Jay Ellis, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, Lyliana Wray, manny jactino, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Raymond Lee, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

May 25, 2022 by Robert Kojder

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. […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Jake Picking, Jay Ellis, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Joseph Kosinski, Kara Wang, Lewis Pullman, Lyliana Wray, Manny Jacinto, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Peter Mark Kendall, Raymond Lee, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, Val Kilmer

Box Office: How high could Top Gun: Maverick fly?

May 25, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

Top Gun: Maverick finally fires up its engines around the world this weekend, and you don’t need to have been in stealth mode to have heard that it’s the kind of film the big-screen experience was made for. We called it “the perfect summer blockbuster” in our review, and “an expertly crafted adrenaline rush with […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

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

May 24, 2022 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

Exclusive Interview – Jay Ellis & Danny Ramirez say they “trauma bonded” filming Top Gun: Maverick

May 18, 2022 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno sits down with Jay Ellis and Danny Ramirez to talk Top Gun: Maverick… Filming Top Gun: Maverick seems like a unique experience that a few got to experience. From swimming tests to actually flying F18s, the cast went through a lot to make this upcoming summer blockbuster. Two of the cast members, Jay […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Exclusives, Flickering Myth TV, Interviews, Movies Tagged With: Danny Ramirez, Jay Ellis, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

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