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Continuing its hypersonic run, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has, in its 13th weekend of release, crossed the $1.4B mark worldwide, lifting the cume to a touch over $1.403B through today.

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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.

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.

Speaking on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast yesterday, Quentin Tarantino held forth on the experience of seeing Top Gun: Maverick.

Zack Sharf Count Quentin Tarantino as one of the millions of moviegoers who fell in love with “Top Gun: Maverick” this summer movie season. The director stopped by the ReelBlend podcast this week and had nothing but raves to share about the Tom Cruise sequel.“I fucking love ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ I thought it was fantastic,” Tarantino said. “I saw it at the theaters.

Top Gun: Maverick has reached a new milestone, as it surpassed $600 million at the international box office.The tally brings the Tom Cruise sequel to more than $1.2 billion worldwide, solidifying it as Paramount Pictures' 'highest grossing film ever globally,' as reported byDeadline.The film, which was directed by Joseph Kosinski, is presently at $602.5M from 65 offshore markets. Impressive:Top Gun: Maverick has reached a new milestone, as it surpassed $600M at the international box officeAnd in North America it sits at $606 million, for a grand total of $1,208.5 billion globally through Friday.It is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office.

Elvis has won its box-office dance-off with Top Gun: Maverick.After the two films reported the same ticket sales Sunday, Monday's final numbers has Elvis, alone, as king of the weekend.Elvis ultimately grossed $31.1 million from Friday to Sunday, according to Warner Bros.' final figures Monday. The latest:Elvis has won its box-office dance-off with Top Gun: Maverick, taking in$31.1 million from Friday to Sunday.

Feeling the beat. Tom Cruise was spotted rocking out at a Rolling Stones concert in London, which he enjoyed from a suite he shared with friends.

It took 30 years to convince Tom Cruise to make a sequel to 1986’s “Top Gun,” hit by Tony Scott, but the decision has definitely paid off. Today, “Top Gun Maverick” crossed the $ 1 billion mark worldwide, becoming Cruise’s highest-grossing film ever worldwide.

Director Joseph Kosinski first made big waves when he helped Disney with a slick, soft reboot of their beloved film “Tron” with “Tron: Legacy.” Though the film didn’t really perform well at the box office, it’s become something of a cult classic. Also, it easily features one of the better modern film scores from the former Parisian electro-pop duo Daft Punk.

Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has raced past the $1B mark worldwide, becoming only the second movie of the pandemic era to reach such rarefied air — and Tom Cruise’s first time to the milestone in a career that has spanned 40 years. It took just 31 days for the aviators to get to $1B with the total through Sunday at an estimated $1.006B worldwide, including domestic’s estimated $521.7M and $484.7M from the international box office.

Duncan Henderson, the Oscar-nominated producer of Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, a longtime DGA national board member and recipient of the guild’s Frank Capra Achievement Award, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 72.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Eric Warren Singer, one of the screenwriters behind Paramount’s summer smash Top Gun: Maverick.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian actor Sam Delich, who is currently appearing in Netflix’s Joseph Kosinski feature Spiderhead, has landed a major recurring role on Disney+’s comedy-drama series Last Days of the Space Age.

Netflix fans have been left baffled by new Chris Hemsworth movie Escape from Spiderhead.The thriller, based on George Saunders’ dystopian short story Escape from Spiderhead, was added to the streaming service on Friday (18 June), follows two prisoners who bond as they come to terms with their pasts in a state-of-the-art slammer.READ MORE: Thor: Ragnarok – Chris Hemsworth says filming was a MarvelThe pair are locked up in a prison run by a visionary played by Chris, who experiments on his subjects using mind-altering drugs.The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who directed smash-hit move Top Gun: Maverick, and is written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who are responsible first two Deadpool films.The movie shot to the top of Netflix’s worldwide charts just one day after release, but some viewers took to social media to claim they only heard about the film on its day it came out.One said: “Just watched Spiderhead on Netflix, the way they did not promote this film when its their best cast and overall the directing was brilliant is very in character for Netflix." Another added: “I just heard about the movie Spiderhead two hours ago and that s*** was fire. How did Netflix not promote it?” A third added: “Question @netflix why do u not promote #Spiderhead but would promote your other stuff which shouldn’t be named? It’s directed by #josephkosinski for heaven’s sake.” A week before Spiderhead ’s release, director and producer Peter Atencio complained the movie had not been given enough coverage.He wrote: “In seven days a streaming service is releasing a $100m+ movie starring one of the biggest movie stars on earth and directed by a guy with a movie in theatres currently that is the biggest smash hit of the year.

Tom Cruise was front and center promoting Top Gun: Maverick in Seoul, South Korea Monday, as the film continues to set box office records.The 59-year-old actor donned a dark navy blue polo shirt with black jeans and black boots in the appearance at Lotte Hotel Seoul.The perennial A-lister, who returns to the role of Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in the movie, donned a watch as he appeared with his collaborators in the smash hit summer blockbuster.

Paramount expected big things from “Top Gun: Maverick,” but maybe not this big. In only three weeks in theaters, the film has soared past the $800 million mark at the global box office.

Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has buzzed yet another box office milestone, this time flying past $800M globally. The worldwide cume through Thursday is $806.4M, including $422.2M domestic and $384.2M from the international box office.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Top Gun: Maverick” has roared past the $800 million mark at the global box office, and by crossing that milestone it now ranks as the highest-grossing film in Tom Cruise’s storied career.The long-gestating sequel to “Top Gun,” the 1986 aeronautics action flick that solidified Cruise’s place on the A-list, has now passed “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” which was previously the actor’s most successful film with $791.1 million worldwide. Its total stands at $806.4 million, with $422.2 million of that impressive bounty coming from domestic audiences.