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according to Deadline.Steven Spielberg reportedly “flipped” for the script, written by “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith.The original film starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, who died in 2017.

A storm is coming back to movie theatres.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment are meeting with directors hoping for a spring start on Twisters, a big-scale sequel to the 1996 storm-chasing blockbuster. Universal and Warner Bros are co-financing with Universal taking the creative lead on the picture. Frank Marshall is producing.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Anonymous Content is currently an exploring an acquisition of Grandview/Automatik, Variety has learned from sources. Should the deal go forward, it would merge the two management and production companies into a single entity. Sources say that the two companies had previously had limited discussions about a potential merger, but nothing was serious until recently. Reps for both Anonymous and Grandview/Automatik declined to comment. Grandview/Automatik was originally founded in 2014 by former CAA agent Matt Rosen, manager Jeff Silver, and producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. On the management side, Grandview currently has 20 managers handling over 500 clients. Among their top clients are “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski, “House of the Dragon” co-creator Ryan Condal as well as series star Olivia Cooke, “Atlanta” executive producer and director Hiro Murai, “Prey” director Dan Trachtenberg, and “Maid” creator Molly Smith Metzler.

EXCLUSIVE: Film industry veteran Emily Wolfe  has joined Plan B Entertainment’s film division as they continue to expand their prolific slate of films.

K.J. Yossman Framestore has tapped “Top Gun: Maverick” VFX supervisor Ryan Tudhope as its new creative director. Tudhope, who is a member of the Television Academy and AMPAS, co-founded VFX studio Atomic Fiction, where he was also CEO. The studio had over 350 employees across L.A. and Montreal, working on projects including “Deadpool,” “Rogue One” and “Game of Thrones.” Tudhope’s experience spans two and a half decades, in which he has worked on over fifty feature film and episodic projects including “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” for Amazon Studios and “Spiderhead,” working as production-side VFX supervisor alongside director Joseph Kosinski. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.”

Joseph Kosinski is exceptionally humble about “Top Gun: Maverick.” Paramount’s action-packed blockbuster, featuring Tom Cruise’s return to the skies 36 years after the original film, has become an unexpected sensation, bringing audiences young and old back to the big screen at a time when theaters are in desperate need of a win. In the process, “Maverick” has racked up an eye-popping $1.4 billion globally to stand as the highest-grossing movie of the year. Nobody has been more surprised by its success than Kosinski. “I don’t know if I’ve wrapped my head around it. I’m amazed every day that it continues to play,” he says. The film, available on home entertainment on Aug. 23 at a premium price, has remained in the top five on domestic box office charts for 12 of its 13 weeks of release.

Tom Cruise was spotted arriving in New York City on Sunday by helicopter.The 60-year-old Top Gun: Maverick actor was followed by an overzealous autograph seeker who was holding a photograph of the star and a pen.The Hollywood action-hero, who wore dark navy-blue jeans, a polo t-shirt, a Yankees hat, aviator Ray-Ban sunglasses and combat boots, did not seem to notice the energetic man behind him as he walked through a parking lot. Can I have your autograph?: Tom Cruise met by overzealous autograph seeker as he arrived in New York by helicopter SundayOr perhaps he was in too much of a rush to stop and sign for the man.Carrying a black backpack, the father-of-three appeared to be making a get-away as the pursuing fan moved in.The actor has been in the UK filming scenes for the upcoming blockbuster production of Mission: Impossible 8.  The star keeps himself in prime physical condition as he regularly performs stunts and acts as his own pilot both on and off set, owning multiple types of aircraft.Tom's recent smash hit blockbuster, Top Gun: Maverick, reached a new milestone, surpassing global sales of 1.3 billion, making it Paramount Pictures' highest grossing film ever and landing it in the top 10 movies all time.  Target locked on Tom: The 60-year-old returns to the US from the UK where he was filming scenes for the newest Mission: Impossible 8 This solidifies The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski is only the 12th film to ever cross the $600 million mark at the domestic box office.This is the first film in Cruise's long career to earn over $1 billion.Cruise and the Top Gun cast underwent months of flying training in preparation for the role, as they took to the sky themselves for the scenes.

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.

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.

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.

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.