‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Shot 800 Hours of Footage: ‘As Much as Three ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies’

Later this month, audiences will finally get to watch the highly anticipated sequel to Tom Cruise‘s beloved 1980s fighter pilot action pic “Top Gun.” There is already some early buzz on “Top Gun: Maverick” after a screening at CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas that seems to indicate that the extended wait, due to multiple release date hiccups, will be worth it. The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Tron Legacy,” “Oblivion“) with longtime Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie (“Jack Reacher,” “Mission: Impossible – Fallout“) joining the project to help both produce and work on the script.

Lady Gaga has released “Hold My Hand,” the power ballad she co-penned and performs for Paramount/Skydance’s upcoming Top Gun: Maverick which has its world premiere on Wednesday in San Diego. Attendees at CinemaCon in Las Vegas got their first taste of the song when the Tom Cruise sequel screened for exhibition last Thursday, and it’s another in Gaga’s and the Top Gun canon that could go all the way to the Oscars.

The world premiere on Wednesday of Paramount’s long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick will be livestreamed on YouTube.

The cast of Top Gun: Maverick is flying in style!

On Wednesday, Lady Gaga announced the impending release of “Hold My Hand”, the opening song for “Top Gun: Maverick”. The 13-time Grammy winner took to Instagram to share the news.

Lady Gaga is giving fans a taste of her  song. The singer made it official Wednesday on Instagram that she wrote a song for the film, and explained that the track, «Hold My Hand,» is a «love letter to the world.»Then on Friday, Gaga released a teaser of the track, and what appears to be a snippet of the music video.

Robert De Niro took a moment to slam what he sees as pervasive political falsehood as he accepted the Cinéma Verité Award at CinemaCon’s closing event.

“Top Gun: Maverick” just screened at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and the film appears to have taken the audience’s breath away.Initial reactions are positively glowing, praising director Joseph Kosinski’s approach to the film’s aerial flight sequences and action while also acknowledging that the sequel is surprisingly emotional.Starring Tom Cruise, who reprises his role as Maverick from the 1986 film, the sequel will fly into theaters May 27, 2022. Val Kilmer will also reprise the role of “Iceman.”“#TopGunMaverick is a profound cinematic experience and easily the best film of the year,” TheWrap’s Drew Taylor wrote.

Zack Sharf “Top Gun: Maverick” blasted off at CinemaCon, where Paramount Pictures held the tentpole’s first public screening and generated rave first reactions. Journalists in attendance are hailing the long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel as “the perfect blockbuster” and “terrific in every conceivable way.” The film will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May before Paramount releases it in theaters over Memorial Day weekend.Paramount Pictures president Brian Robbins introduced the CinemaCon screening of the film and said star Tom Cruise has earned his reputation as the most daring actor in Hollywood.

Lady Gaga has announced a new single and it'll be featured in. She made the news official Wednesday on Instagram, where she explained that the track — «Hold My Hand» — «is a love letter to the world.»The star said the new track drops May 3 and ahead of the highly anticipated sequel's May 27 premiere. The 36-year-old «Poker Face» singer said she wrote the track for, though it had been years in the making.«When I wrote this song for, I didn't even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in,» she explained in her caption to the post announcing the collaboration.

On Wednesday, Lady Gaga announced the impending release of “Hold My Hand”, the opening song for “Top Gun: Maverick”. The 13-time Grammy winner took to Instagram to share the news.

Lady Gaga has announced details of her new single Hold My Hand, taken from the Top Gun: Maverick movie soundtrack.

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The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman has called the 2017 film the “biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally”.Tom Cruise starred in the Universal franchise film, which was shunned by critics and underperformed at the box office with a $410million (£345m) global taking.“I tend to subscribe to the point of view that you learn nothing from your successes, and you learn everything from your failures,” Kurtzman recently said on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast.“And The Mummy was probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally.”Kurtzman went on to say “there’s about a million things I regret” about the film, but he also said “it gave me so many gifts that are inexpressibly beautiful.“I didn’t become a director until I made that movie, and it wasn’t because it was well-directed – it was because it wasn’t.

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Tom Cruise was ready to soar in his latest film. The long-delayed sequel to 1986’s "Top Gun," titled "Top Gun: Maverick," will finally premiere on May 27. In a behind-the-scenes featurette leading up to the movie’s debut, the 59-year-old detailed how he and his co-stars committed to full-on training for their gravity-defying roles.

Tom Cruise to make his return to the big screen as Captain Pete «Maverick» Mitchell -- nearly four decades after the beloved original made audiences feel the «need for speed» — had to be something the cinematic world had never seen before.«I wasn't ready to make a sequel until we had a special story worthy of a sequel,» Cruise admits in a new featurette for which Paramount shared on Monday. «And until technology evolved so we could delve deeper into the experience of a fighter pilot.»The technology is unprecedented.

For Tom Cruise to make his return to the big screen as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell — nearly four decades after the beloved original “Top Gun” made audiences feel the “need for speed” — “Top Gun: Maverick” had to be something the cinematic world had never seen before.