Best of 2022: How the “Top Gun: Maverick” Sound Team Ingeniously Captured Raw Emotion Mid-Flight
It’s that time of year—we look back on a few of our favorite interviews from 2022 in our annual year-end list. Mark Weingarten is no stranger to navigating the challenges of a production sound mixer. Over his accomplished career, Weingarten’s mixed on Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk, traveled to another dimension in Interstellar, captured the ...
Watch Tom Cruise Perform the Most Insane Stunt in “Mission: Impossible” History
Paramount has released a look at what might be one of the most insane stunts in the history of cinema. Tom Cruise, legendary (among other reasons) for upping the ante with his stunts for each and every Mission: Impossible installment, can be seen in this new featurette pushing the envelope presumably as far as one would think it’s ...
Best of Summer: Going to Flight School With “Top Gun: Maverick” Stars Glen Powell & Greg Tarzan Davis
As we’ve done for the past few summers, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite interviews to highlight in this last week of August. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but a little taste of some of the great conversations we’ve had during these hot summer months. Bring on sweater season. Based on ...
Best of Summer: How the “Top Gun: Maverick” Sound Team Ingeniously Captured Raw Emotion Mid-Flight
As we’ve done for the past few summers, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite interviews to highlight in this last week of August. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but a little taste of some of the great conversations we’ve had during these hot summer months. Bring on sweater season. Mark Weingarten ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Passes “Titanic” As Seventh-Highest Grossing Domestic Release Ever
Top Gun: Maverick has sunk Titanic. Director Joseph Kosinski and star Tom Cruise’s sequel has now surpassed James Cameron’s iconic 1997 film and become the seventh-highest grossing film of all time at the domestic box office, with $662 million in sales. Cameron’s sweeping Titanic hauled in $659 million during its total run, which included re-releases. Maverick is still soaring ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Now the Biggest Film in Paramount Pictures History
Eight weeks into its release and Top Gun: Maverick continues to go Mach 10. The Tom Cruise-led mega-blockbuster soared yet again this weekend, adding another $19.2 million from 65 overseas markets, bumping it up to $619 million internationally. Add another $617 million domestically, and you’ve got $1.23 billion (and counting). It’s official—Top Gun: Maverick is now the highest-grossing ...
How the “Top Gun: Maverick” Sound Team Ingeniously Captured Raw Emotion Mid-Flight
Mark Weingarten is no stranger to navigating the challenges of a production sound mixer. Over his accomplished career, Weingarten’s mixed on Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk, traveled to another dimension in Interstellar, captured the spirit of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, and tracked the drama behind The Social Network and The Curious Case of ...
Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” Makes History Again
For the first time in his long career, Tom Cruise is part of the billion-dollar club. Top Gun: Maverick has now officially crossed the billion-dollar threshold, becoming the 50th movie in history to do so, after another strong showing this past weekend. Maverick soared into this rarefied air this weekend after the final numbers were tallied, ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Soars to Highest-Grossing Domestic Film This Year
This will likely not come as a big surprise at this point, but Top Gun: Maverick has officially become the highest-grossing movie of the year in North America. The blockbuster return of Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in director Joseph Kosinski’s film has now soared to $401.8 million in North American ticket sales. Maverick has flown past Doctor ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Makes History — Again
Top Gun: Maverick has achieved Mach 10. In fact, if you’ve seen the film, you know that Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise, of course) does achieve the previously unthinkable when he hits Mach 10 in the opening sequence of the film, working as a test pilot for the Navy. The scene is thrilling and ends with Maverick, ...
“Severance” Production Designer Jeremy Hindle’s Dystopian Office Space
“Large room, four desks.” That’s the only description production designer Jeremy Hindle had to work with when he came up with this TV season’s most spookily immaculate office, as seen in Apple TV + series Severance. The high-concept sci-fi thriller, partially directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller from a script by first-timer Dan Ericson, ...
Tom Cruise’s Historic “Top Gun: Maverick” Opening Weekend
Did you see Top Gun: Maverick this weekend? If you’re anything like us, you were one of the many, many people who eagerly went to the theater to catch Tom Cruise reprise the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, 36 years after the original Top Gun, and you’re a part of the astonishing $154 million haul that the film made in ...
Going to Flight School With “Top Gun: Maverick” Stars Glen Powell & Greg Tarzan Davis
Based on everything from the reviews to the overwhelmingly positive chatter online to the 5-minute standing ovation at Cannes, Top Gun: Maverick seems destined to become Tom Cruise’s biggest weekend opening in his career, which is saying something. For the sequel to the beloved 1986 film, Cruise, the film’s executive producer and star, waited until ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Gets Five-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes
Before the crowd at the Cannes was even strapped in for a second of Top Gun: Maverick, they were cheering. This was because Tom Cruise received a surprise Palme d’Or, which he accepted with what appeared to be genuine surprise. Cruise and his co-stars, including Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Miles Teller, had already enjoyed an epic ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Soars as Critics Hail Riveting Sequel
Here we are, 36-years after the original Top Gun, and Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit and going Mach 4 with his hair on fire again. Cruise, director Joseph Kosinski (they teamed up on the sci-fi film Oblivion), and their cast and crew have delivered one of the best action movies in years. Top Gun: Maverick manages ...
How “Top Gun: Maverick” Goosed California’s Economy
When Tom Cruise landed a helicopter on the USS Midway aircraft carrier in San Diego for the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, he was putting perhaps the perfect final touch on an epic story of movie-making magic. It’s been 35-years since we last saw Cruise play Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in director Tony Scott’s Top Gun, but Cruise’s ...
Tom Cruise Landed a Helicopter on an Aircraft Carrier for “Top Gun: Maverick” World Premiere
Ground control to Major Tom, that’s one heckuva entrance. Tom Cruise made a very Tom Cruise entrance to kick off the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, landing a helicopter on the aircraft carrier USS. Midway. Cruise, who learned how to fly choppers for the climactic final action sequence in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, landed the helicopter on Midway and strolled ...
Listen to Lady Gaga’s “Top Gun: Maverick” Song “Hold My Hand”
It was only last week when we were enthusing over Lady Gaga being tapped to write the main theme song for Top Gun: Maverick. Now, Lady Gaga herself has made it official—her song, “Hold My Hand,” is out now. She co-wrote it with BloodPop, who was also her co-producer, along with Benjamin Rice. Gaga’s song will feature ...
“Top Gun: Maverick” Blows The Doors of CinemaCon as Early Reactions Hail a Mach 4 Masterpiece
Paramount Pictures showed Top Gun: Maverick in its entirety at CinemaCon, and the results are a lot of very satisfied theater owners and their guests absolutely buzzing off the film’s heart-pounding action and surprisingly touching character work. Thus far the screening has generated rave reactions to what people are calling “the perfect blockbuster” and “terrific in every ...
Lady Gaga Will Sing Tom Cruise Into the Danger Zone With New “Top Gun: Maverick” Song
Top Gun: Maverick is getting the James Bond treatment. While you may think exclusively of Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” when you think of Top Gun, soon, you’ll be thinking of Lady Gaga. The superstar is creating an original theme song for Top Gun: Maverick, much in the way every new movie in the James Bond franchise gets a big star ...
