A ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Sequel? Here’s What Jay Ellis Said

Filmmaker and producing potentate Joe Russo, who has teamed with his brother Anthony on blockbusters like Avengers: Endgame and The Gray Man, is partnering with agency IHC Sports to help its clients navigate Hollywood.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) has been tapped to direct a feature adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys for MGM’s Orion Pictures, with Oscar nom Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Ethan Herisse (When They See Us), Brandon Wilson (The Way Back), Hamish Linklater (The Big Short) and Fred Hechinger (News of the World) set to star.

Oscar-nominated “King Richard” and “The Help” actress Aunjanue Ellis is set to star in a feature adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” for writer-director RaMell Ross and MGM’s Orion Pictures. The film will co-star Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater and Fred Hechinger.

EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton is launching film and TV production company Dawn Apollo Films.

Sharing his thoughts. Joe Giudice weighed in on ex-wife Teresa Giudice‘s ongoing feud with brother Joe Gorga after the duo traded barbs at BravoCon.

, the album release came with a few surprises—some more intriguing than others. I was not shocked, for instance, to see that she surprised fans with a 3 a.m. extended album drop.

DEALSWarner Music’s Atlantic Records and Andrew Watt‘s Gold Tooth Records have jointly signed Iggy Pop to a new record deal. “I’m the guy with no shirt who rocks”, says Pop. “Andrew and Gold Tooth get that, and we made a record together the old fashioned way.

Tom Cruise is one of the biggest movie stars in the world and he’s also one of the richest actors out there.

David Ellison’s Skydance has secured a $400 million investment to expand its operations, particularly its animation, sports and interactive ambitions, pushing the company’s valuation above $4 billion. The investment came from investment firm KKR and joined by the Ellison Family (who remain the company’s majority shareholders), as well as other existing backers supporting the “Top Gun: Maverick” studio.

Gov. Steve Sisolak, D-Nev., lost an endorsement from a top teachers union in his race for re-election for not sufficiently addressing educational issues, and the announcement comes after several recent polls show him falling behind Republican challenger Joe Lombardo in the Nevada governor's race. The Clark County Education Association (CCEA) announced that after interviewing both gubernatorial candidates, they will not be making any endorsements for this year's election, despite endorsing Sisolak in the 2018 gubernatorial race.

"Top Gun: Maverick" actress Monica Barbaro flew with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as part of the celebrations for San Francisco’s Fleet Week.  Pilot Lieutenant Commander Griffin Stangel flew the plane during Barbaro’s VIP flight, which she was nominated to take part in by The Air Show Network due to her various charitable efforts involving the youth in her community. Barbaro is active in a number of charities to benefit the youth, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), The Make-A-Wish Foundation and The Wingman Foundation, which raises money for the families who have lost loved ones in the armed forces.

splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm” as soon as he hit the atmosphere at Mach 10.5.Then on Monday, Kelly tweeted that a jet would need to be at such high altitude to be able to fly Mach 10.5 in the first place that the thinness of the air would make ejection a breeze:Depends on his altitude. I was going Mach 25 when I left the ISS on a spacewalk and that was just fine.

@TopGunMovie, @TomCruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed.He survived with no injuries.At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’. pic.twitter.com/YP9IKVc8VSTyson then went in on the mechanics of it, posting graphics to prove his point, and making it clear that not only would Maverick die, but that he’d be “very dead.”“When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT,” Tyson explained.

Loose Women favourite Stacey Solomon is said to be 'struggling' with her work-life balance as a mum-of-four, and missing the help of her busy EastEnders hubby, hands-on dad Joe Swash. A source has exclusively revealed to OK! that the former X-Factor star, 33 - who is mum to Zach, 14, and Leighton, 10, from previous relationships, as well as son Rex, four, and daughter Rose, one, with Joe - is in need of some parenting assistance.

A Nebraska man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for online threats he made against Colorado’s top elections official, in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers nationwide from rising threats. Travis Ford was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, where he lives, after pleading guilty earlier this year to sending threats to Secretary of State Jena Griswold on social media.

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things got a bit testy when he questioned if West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has more power over policy decisions than President Joe Biden.“I want to know who the real president of this country is? Is it Joe Biden or Joe Manchin?” he asked.“It’s Joe Biden, and don’t start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he’s president,” she responded.

Edgar Wright had a small hand in the massive success of the “Top Gun” sequel.