Imax CEO Rich Gelfond Urged Paramount Not To Move’ Top Gun’ – “They Just Wanted Perfect Conditions Around It”

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Rich Gelfond said he’d love Paramount to rethink Top Gun: Maverick’s recent move from this fall to next May, but it’s not likely. “I have spent a lot of time close to a lot of the decision makers at Paramount and… in Top Gun they think they have something very special.

Tom Cruise waited more than 35 years to make that movie,” he said. “I think they just feel that for that franchise, and with that kind of quality, they want to make sure the box office is 100%.”“It is so good as a matter of fact I tried to urge them [to keep the date] because I think that whatever conditions there are, people would flock to see it.

But I think they just want perfect conditions around it,” Gelfond told a media conference Monday.Top Gun: Maverick was originally