‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Tops UK Home Entertainment Charts

For the first time in a long time, the highest grossing film of the year globally, Avatar: The Way of Water, is nominated for Best Picture at the 95th annual Academy Awards. What’s more, the year’s No. 2 film, Top Gun: Maverick, is also in contention for the top prize at this year’s ceremony.

Top Gun: Maverick scored six Oscar nominations this morning including best picture, along with adapted screenplay by Ehren Kruger & Eric Warren Singer, sound, film editing, visual effects and original song for the Lady Gaga tune Hold My Hand. The film’s emergence as a best picture threat might have seemed an impossible mission, in that a summer movie that grosses nearly $1.5 billion worldwide moves popcorn, not Oscar voters. This Paramount Pictures film has proven to be the exception and one big reason is this: if Tom Cruise didn’t rescue the theatrical box office business following the Covid pandemic, he certainly pulled it out of a nosedive. While Cruise did not get nominated for best actor, he is squarely in the mix as producer, alongside first time Oscar nominee and hitmaking stalwart Jerry Bruckheimer, Christopher McQuarrie (a double nominee counting the adapted screenplay category) and Skydance principal David Ellison.

Six months ago you would have got sky-high odds on the BAFTA nominations being dominated by a German-language film and movies by heavyweights Spielberg, James Cameron and Iñárritu only garnering a handful of nominations between them.

Film finalists:Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” based on the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo CollodiKazuo Ishiguro for “Living” based on the novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo TolstoyRebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said” based on the nonfiction book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyPeter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren for “Top Gun: Maverick” based on characters from the 1983 “California” magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud YonayScreenwriter Sarah Polley and novelist Miriam Toews for “Women Talking”Television finalistsPeter Morgan, for the episode “Couple 31,” from “The Crown,” based on his stage play “The Audience”Taffy Brodesser-Akner for the episode “The Liver,” from “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” based on her book of the same nameWill Smith for the episode “Failure’s Contagious,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel by Mick HerronJ. T.

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The USC Libraries on Wednesday unveiled nominees for its 35th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the screenwriters of the year’s best film and episodic series adaptations, along with the writers of the works on which they are based.

The King is back on top! Elvis returns to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart following its success at the Golden Globes last week.

Into the danger zone again? A Top Gun: Maverick sequel hasn’t yet been announced, but fans are clamoring for one — and so are some of the blockbuster film’s cast and crew members.

Refresh for latest…: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water continues to outdo itself having crossed $1.8B globally and reaching nearly $1.9B at the worldwide box office through this weekend.

The Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for the 2023 PGA Awards and, as usual, there were surprises that will impact the Best Picture race and an Emmys campaign that will begin sooner than you think. As expected “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once” made the prestigious Darryl F.

Tom really didn’t want to make another Top Gun and [director Tony Scott’s suicide] made it even less likely. I’m sure for him, that’s probably another reason why he wouldn’t ever consider going back. But I pitched the idea of this story being a reconciliation between him and Rooster set against this mission that would take Rooster into this very dangerous situation, that they’d end up together across enemy lines, having to resolve their differences and work together to get back home. As soon as I pitched that idea, I could just see the wheels in Tom’s head start to turn and all of a sudden, he had a very emotional reason, a hook back into this character, and a reason to come back, because I think in his mind it was like a one in a million shot that we would be able to get it right. He kept saying, “Joe, we got to hit a bullet with a bullet.” And that was his line on this movie. And so, I certainly heard that in my head every day as we were making the film. I think everyone who worked on this film felt like the bar was very high because we all were fans of the original.

The ICG Publicists Guild today revealed the six nominees for its 2023 Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaigns, which include the teams behind last year’s two biggest movies.

The Costume Designers Guild has unwrapped the nominees for its 25th anniversary CDG Awards next month. See the full list below.

Coyote’s crew! Greg Tarzan Davis played one of the standout recruits in Top Gun: Maverick, and he had the sweetest time filming the action sequel with his A-List group of costars.

Calling all aviators! The cast of Top Gun: Maverick has hit the red carpet at the 2023 Golden Globes.

MOTION PICTURES: LIVE ACTIONAll Quiet on the Western FrontProduction Mixer: Viktor PrášilRe-Recording Mixer: Lars GinzelRe-Recording Mixer: Stefan KorteScoring Mixer: Daniel KrescoADR Mixer: Jan MeyerdierksFoley Mixer: Hanse WarnsAvatar: The Way of WaterProduction Mixer: Julian Howarth CASRe-Recording Mixer: Christopher BoyesRe-Recording Mixer: Gary SummersRe-Recording Mixer: Michael HedgesScoring Mixer: Simon RhodesADR Mixer: Bill Higley CASFoley Mixer: Tavish GradeElvisProduction Mixer: David LeeRe-Recording Mixer: Andy Nelson CASRe-Recording Mixer: Michael Keller CASRe-Recording Mixer: Wayne PashleyScoring Mixer: Geoff FosterADR Mixer: Tami TreadwellFoley Mixer: Amy BarberThe BatmanProduction Mixer: Stuart Wilson CASRe-Recording Mixer: Andy Nelson CASRe-Recording Mixer: William Files CASScoring Mixer: Kirsty WhalleyADR Mixer: Ryan D. YoungFoley Mixer: Darrin MannTop Gun: MaverickProduction Mixer: Mark WeingartenRe-Recording Mixer: Chris BurdonRe-Recording Mixer: Mark TaylorScoring Mixer: Al ClayScoring Mixer: Stephen LipsonFoley Mixer: Blake Collins CASMOTION PICTURES: ANIMATEDGuillermo del Toro’s PinocchioRe-Recording Mixer: Jon Taylor CASRe-Recording Mixer: Frank MontañoScoring Mixer: Peter CobbinFoley Mixer: Tavish GradeLightyearOriginal Dialogue Mixer: Paul McGrath CASRe-Recording Mixer: Stephen UrataRe-Recording Mixer: Ren KlyceScoring Mixer: Warren BrownFoley Mixer: Scott CurtisMinions: The Rise of GruRe-Recording Mixer: Tim NielsenRe-Recording Mixer: Steve SlanecScoring Mixer: Alan Meyerson CASFoley Mixer: Jason ButlerPuss in Boots: The Last WishOriginal Dialogue Mixer: Ken GombosRe-Recording Mixer: Julian SlaterRe-Recording Mixer: Greg P.

Hear that? It’s the Cinema Audio Society’s nominations for its 2023 CAS Awards, which celebrate excellence in sound mixing for film and TV. See the list below.

The ADG had its say and now the American Society of Cinematographers is the latest artisan organization to announce its year-end honors. The 37th ASC Awards will find Roger Deakins (“Empire of Light”), Greig Fraser (“The Batman”), Darius Khondji (“Bardo”), Claudio Miranda (“Top Gun: Maverick”), and Mandy Walker (“Elvis”) vying for the theatrical feature film honor.