Cruises

via Paramount Anyone proclaiming that the age of the movie star is almost over in the era of franchises and IP driving ticket sales above all esle needn’t look much further than Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick to dispel that notion, at least for the time being. Sure, Joseph Kosinski’s aerial extravaganza is a sequel, but a massive section of the target audience weren’t even born when Tony Scott’s original flew into theaters back in 1986, while there’s a great deal of people who went into Pete Mitchell’s return…

Tom Cruise’s new film Top Gun: Maverick has earned an estimated $151m (£119m) in North America for the four-day Memorial Day weekend.This film is Cruise’s highest-grossing debut, and his first film to surpass $100m (£79m) on opening weekend in a career spanning 40 years. The new action movie – which sees Cruise as the Navy’s top pilotconfronting the ghosts of his past – is a sequel to the original 1986 movie, in which he also starred.After its original premiere date of 24 June 2020 was delayed nearly two years by the…

Image: ParamountAfter many many delays, Tom Cruise comes roaring back to the big screen for 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick. Directed by Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski, the sequel to the late Tony Scott’s original 1986 film brings back Cruise’s hypercompetent Navy airman Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he’s conscripted to train a new generation of fighter pilots. Those who’ve seen it, both critics and regular folks alike, have really taken a shine to it. Some have even called it one of Cruise’s best roles in years, if not…

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: Paramount"Top Gun: Maverick" soared to $124 million during its opening weekend, earning Tom Cruise his highest domestic debut.The prolific actor, who has made a name for himself as a fearless stuntman, has generated more than $4.2 billion at the domestic box office since 1981 but had previously never had a film open to more than $65 million.The Paramount and Skydance film also generated $124 million internationally, bringing its total opening weekend haul to $248 million."The…

Memorial Day weekend used to be a huge occasion in the movie industry, but recent years have seen it often be one of the worst weekends to open a summer movie. It turns out, the key to having a fantastic opening on this once hallowed ground is to break out the big guns; or in this case, the big planes. Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick seems to have taught the world of upcoming movies this lesson rather quickly, as the legacy-quel is already breaking records after its first official day in theaters. Those records aren’t…

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: ParamountThis weekend Tom Cruise has a chance to do something he's never done before — open a film to more than $100 million at the domestic box office.The prolific actor, who has made a name for himself as a fearless stuntman, has generated more than $4.2 billion at the domestic box office since 1981, but has never had a film open to more than $65 million.After several pandemic-related delays, Paramount's "Top Gun: Maverick" arrives in theaters this weekend with a 97% "Fresh"…

As per trade reports, Tom Cruise’s upcoming film Top Gun: Maverick could end up registering the biggest opening by any film of his career. Despite his stardom, Tom has never had a film gross over $100 million on the opening weekend. But reports say that Maverick may just change that. Some estimates claim that the film could end up making $125 million in its opening weekend in the domestic market alone. Also read: Top Gun Maverick early reviews: Critics hail Tom Cruise-starrer as ‘great film’According to a report in The…

Tim P. Whitby/Tim P. Whitby/ Getty Images It’s finally here. Paramount Pictures have released the official trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh installment in the Mission Impossible franchise. Audiences have been without Cruise’s Ethan Hunt for four years since his last appearance in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. However, there’s a new star stealing the spotlight from Cruise in Dead Reckoning Part One, and her name is Hayley Atwell. Known to many as Marvel Studios’ very own…

Tom Cruise, who is being hailed as the last superhero--and mind you he is 59 years old--turned out to be the darling of the crowds on Wednesday at the ongoing 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The festival kicked into an overdrive, when Tom, as the hero of Top Gun: Maverick, landed at the Festival venue and eight fighter jets zoomed above expelling smoke in red and blue to match the colours of the French flag. Also read: Tom Cruise breaks into tears at surprise Cannes Film Festival award, gets a standing ovation…

Jeff Farschman, 72, is a serial cruiser from Delaware who spends months at sea in retirement.Jeff FarschmanFor nearly two decades, Jeff Farschman, 72, has spent his golden years like many other adventurous retirees — enjoying leisure cruises to exotic ports of call.But unlike many of his fellow cruise passengers, Farschman basically lives at sea. He spends months traveling the world's oceans and waterways — half of the year, if not more. Although he still keeps a physical home near where he grew up in Delaware, Farschman…