Veteran Hollywood director and movie producer Steven Spielberg credited actor and producer Tom Cruise with saving Hollywood, with the release of “Top Gun: Maverick.” Spielberg and Cruise were both in attendance at the Academy Awards luncheon on Monday (Feb. 13) when Spielberg approached Cruise and gave him a hug. A cameraman recorded the pair as […]
Let’s take a moment to look at Hollywood. Top Gun: Maverick crushed box office numbers for the second weekend in a row. And now attention is on how China’s market had little to do with that success. We sat down with Chris Fenton, author of “Feeding the Dragon: Inside the trillion-dollar dilemma facing Hollywood, the […]
The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s blockbuster sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.” According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, the Paramount Global unit failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article […]
NEW YORK—The high-flying “Top Gun: Maverick” continued to soar in its second weekend, dropping just 32 percent from its opening with $86 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Paramount Pictures release, with Tom Cruise reprising his role from the 1986 original, is holding steadier than any film of its kind has […]
Intimidating warplane “exercises” around Taiwan; saying that Australia could become its nuclear target; nearly ramming a U.S. warship; and now, flying dangerously close to Canadian Air Force jets—are these signals the Chinese regime is bracing to launch a real attack? Elliot Ackerman is a decorated, former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served five tours in […]
Tom Cruise is returning to his role as a highly skilled naval pilot with the upcoming release of “Top Gun: Maverick.” Cruise arrived on a retired Midway aircraft carrier in San Diego, California, via helicopter Wednesday to launch the film.
