Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton has piloted race cars to seven world championships, but had to decline the opportunity to jump in the cockpit of a fighter jet for a role in Top Gun: Maverick, he tells Vanity Fair in a new interview.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEarth’s Mightiest Heroes have nothing on Tom Cruise.Paramount’s supersonic blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” has grossed $623.8 million in North America, passing “The Avengers” ($623.3 million) to become the ninth-highest grossing movie in domestic box office history. Industry experts believe the movie has enough gas in its tank to eventually pass the titles in seventh and eighth place, “Titanic” with $659 million and “Jurassic World” with $653 million.For those counting, the top six slots belong to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($936.6 million), “Avengers: Endgame” ($858.3 million), “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($804.7 million), “Avatar” ($760 million), “Black Panther” ($700 million) and “Avengers: Infinity War” ($678 million).
However, it’s unlikely that Maverick and crew will be able to mix and mingle in this company — at least in its initial box office run. With another $620 million internationally, “Top Gun: Maverick” has generated a mammoth $1.24 billion at the global box office.
On worldwide charts, the popular action sequel ranks among the top 20 biggest films of all time. The “Top Gun” follow-up is the first movie this year, and only second in the COVID era after “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” to hit the coveted billion-dollar mark.
It’s also the only Cruise-led tentpole to ever smash that benchmark.Thanks to stellar reviews and glowing word-of-mouth, “Top Gun: Maverick” has enjoyed remarkable legs at the box office. The film opened in theaters over Memorial Day weekend to $160.5 million, marking the first movie in Cruise’s 40-year career to surpass $100 million in a single weekend.
Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton has piloted race cars to seven world championships, but had to decline the opportunity to jump in the cockpit of a fighter jet for a role in Top Gun: Maverick, he tells Vanity Fair in a new interview.
There are big movies, and there are box office behemoths.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterHook, line and sinker. “Top Gun: Maverick” has toppled “Titanic” as the seventh-biggest film ever at the domestic box office, earning $662 million in ticket sales.For Paramount, “Top Gun: Maverick” has also overtaken “Titanic” as the studio’s biggest film in its 110-year history.
Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures are still doing strong business at the box office with “Top Gun: Maverick.” being The biggest earner to date for both Cruise and Paramount, the action blockbuster sequel has made over $1.3 billion globally. The pic did all it could do to impress naysayers, critics, and the general audience to become one of the most entertaining films in a long time.
Quentin Tarantino has praised Top Gun: Maverick for providing a “true cinematic spectacle”.The director shared his thoughts on the Tom Cruise sequel on the ReelBlend podcast with Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary, where he was emphatic in his admiration.“I fucking love Top Gun: Maverick,” Tarantino said. “I thought it was fantastic. I saw it at the theaters.
The Call of the Wild, which marked his first feature film appearance, was released in 2020, beforehand, he shot Top Gun: Maverick, which finally came out back in May. Davis played Lt.
every sector of the movie theater industry, as premium format company CJ 4DPLEX reports that Tom Cruise’s film has grossed $50 million in combined ticket sales from its 4DX and ScreenX formats. “Thanks to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ we have seen unprecedented box office numbers for 4DX and ScreenX that are consistently breaking records worldwide,” CJ 4DPLEX chief executive Jongryul Kim said.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has posted operating income of $381M (50.7BN yen) for the first quarter of this year, up 25.3% on the $232M posted in the same period last year on a currency basis. Revenues grew even more significantly: up a whopping 136.6% to $2.58BN (341.4BN yen), compared with last year’s $1.87BN.
From a reported revenue of $74 million — up 45% year-over-year from $51 million in Q2 2021 — Imax reported a diluted loss per share of 5 cents. That is up from a diluted loss per share of 23 cents last quarter and loss per share of 16 cents in Q2 2021, though below the profit of 17 cents per share reported in Q4 2021 off the success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”Imax’s write-down is largely attributable to COVID-19 closures at 400 of their Chinese locations to start the quarter, including all locations in Shanghai.
Families weren’t scared to return to the box office during the pandemic and have shelled out $300.9M to date on Illumination Entertainment and Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, making it the first animated movie to cross the three century mark stateside during Covid, and since Frozen 2 opened back in November 2019.
“Black Widow” in July. Then came “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” starring MCU newcomers Simu Liu and Awkwafina, as well as special guest Michelle Yeoh.“Eternals” introduced a whole different branch of Marvel characters as well as their dimensional mission of raising Celestials from the cores of planets to advance outer space.
their entire Phase 5 slate, Kevin Feige teed up Phase 6 and announced the titles of “Avengers 4” and “Avengers 5”: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” followed by “Avengers: Secret Wars.”“The Kang Dynasty” will hit theaters on May 2, 2025. “Secret Wars” will follow on Nov.
Daredevil is officially coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
One of the first big reboots announced by Marvel Studios after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox was “Fantastic Four,” and they would go even further by attaching director Jon Watts (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”) for the film. However, Watts had to exit when his dance card got too full with the new high-profile Disney+ series “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” and a Hollywood fixer film that stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Avengers” films will end Phase 6: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,” in theaters May 2, 2025, and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” in theaters November 7, 2025.The announcement makes clear that the multiversal shenanigans of “Loki,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” are leading the Marvel Cinematic Universe to an cataclysmic crossover event to end all crossover events — quite literally, it could reshape the fundamental fabric of the MCU from the ground up. It all revolves around a Marvel comics crossover miniseries from 2015 called Secret Wars, which evokes an earlier crossover miniseries from the mid-1980s also called Secret Wars.
Jordan Moreau The Man Without Fear is finally coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.“Daredevil: Born Again” was announced at Marvel’s San Diego Comic Con panel by Kevin Feige. It’s set to debut in Spring 2024.Daredevil also showed up at the end of the “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” trailer that debuted during the panel.Cox’s Daredevil made his way back into the MCU in last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” in which he had a cameo role as his alter-ego Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights crime outside of his office hours.
top 10 highest grossing films ever in North America. “Top Gun: Maverick” will take the No.
Margot Robbie is a big movie star, having performances in Oscar-nominated films and superhero stories. Now, following the reveal of her “Barbie” paycheck, she’s this year’s highest-paid actress. ‘Barbie’ cast shares BTS photo as they wrap filmingRyan Gosling talks about his character in Barbie: ‘That Ken life is even harder’According to a Variety report that broke down some of the year’s biggest salaries, Robbie is being paid 12.5 million for her performance in “Barbie.” Her co-star, Ryan Gosling, is also earning the same amount of money.