‘Top Gun,’ ‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Pushed Back in Shuffle of Paramount Slate

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox’s flames just can’t be squashed!

Jennifer Connelly has credited Tom Cruise for helping her overcome a major fear of hers.

Jennifer Connelly is opening up on how she conquered her “crippling” fear of flying through working on “Top Gun: Maverick“.

Tom Cruise paid a visit to “The Graham Norton Show” this week, where he talked about two highly anticipated upcoming films: “Top Gun: Maverick” and the seventh film in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.

Meagan Good (Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Prodigal Son), Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder, Home Economics), Scott Adkins (Debt Collectors, Ip Man 4: The Finale), Eric Lange (Perry Mason, Antebellum), Zion Broadnax (Sydney to the Max), and Snoop Dogg (Dolemite Is My Name, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) have been added to the cast of Day Shift, the Netflix film which will mark the directorial debut of JJ Perry.

The flight of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick from the July 4 corridor to Thanksgiving isn’t causing the panic that such a move would have prompted a few months ago. While theater owners weren’t ecstatic to learn of Top Gun’s move, they’re confident there will be some semblance of a summer season based on a flurry of positive data regarding the recovery of the U.S.

Impossible 7 has been delayed again due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The film, which was slated for a November 2021 release, will now open on May 27 2022, the same opening date when the first Mission: Impossible film was released in 1996, and also the 2000 sequel.Mission: Impossible 7 has been filming worldwide for the last year, with initial production in Italy last February postponed due to the early coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Jennifer Connelly is not a big fan of airplanes.

Fans have been waiting more than three decades for a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun” — and thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ll be waiting all the way to November.

On the heels of the first big positive box office news in months, with “Godzilla vs. Kong” showing that maybe, just maybe, North American cinemas are rebounding in time for the summer movie season, Paramount has announced the departure of one of the biggest titles still on the schedule for July— “Top Gun: Maverick.” READ MORE: ‘Godzilla Vs.

global COVID-19 pandemic, our homes became a cinema in the time of coronavirus, with certain films made available on VOD or to stream much earlier than expected. Most of the movies slated to arrive throughout the summer, however, were bumped to a later date.

Paramount is making some big changes.

Jordan Moreau Paramount has delayed the release dates for several tentpole films, including “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Mission: Impossible 7,” “Dungeons & Dragons” and more.See the full list of scheduling changes from Paramount below:SNAKE EYES, previously scheduled for October 22, 2021, is now set to open July 23, 2021 (wide).JACKASS, previously scheduled for September 3, 2021, is now set to open October 22, 2021 (wide).TOP GUN MAVERICK, previously scheduled for July 2, 2021, is now set to open

In a snap, Universal was ready to backfill July 2 today with its long-awaited Blumhouse sequel The Forever Purge with the news of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick leaving the July 4th weekend for Nov. 19.

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Top Gun: Maverick is leaving its July 2 weekend for Nov. 19, taking over the release date where Paramount/Skydance’s other Tom Cruise sequel Mission: Impossible 7 resides. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible 7 will now open on May 27, 2022, Memorial Day weekend; a holiday frame which has been a home for the franchise for its first 1996 chapter and 2000 sequel. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible 8 is now opening on July 7, 2023 instead of Nov. 4, 2022.