Maverick

Boeing Co. BA 1.15% said it plans to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet combat jet in 2025, closing a chapter on a Navy workhorse featured in the movie “Top Gun: Maverick.” The future of Boeing’s combat jet production has been in doubt for a decade as orders dwindled. The company continues to make F-15EX fighters, and it said resources would be focused on support aircraft and a potential new generation of crewed and uncrewed…

Twenty-three years have ticked by since Tom Cruise last attended the annual Oscars nominees luncheon, in support of his performance as the manipulative sex guru Frank TJ Mackey in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. He lost – his third defeat in a decade, following Jerry Maguire and Born on the Fourth of July – and shortly afterwards set aside his Academy Award ambitions to prove his value as a daredevil action star.But this year’s best picture nod for Top Gun: Maverick, in which Cruise not only starred, but also produced,…

Screengrab via YouTube/Lady Gaga Audiences were pleasantly surprised with the Top Gun sequel that only took almost 40 years to make. The iconic movie has stood the test of time, pleasing fans even today. Now, Top Gun: Maverick viewers have shown their appreciation for the film at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards. In 1986, Tom Cruise flew into our lives with Top Gun, the year’s top movie as rated by IMDb along with Aliens at number two, followed by Stand by Me, Labyrinth, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off rounding…

Top Gun was the highest grossing movie of 1986. Decades later, Top Gun: Maverick ended 2022 as the highest grossing movie of the year as well. Both movies were massive hits, despite coming out decades apart, so the obvious question becomes: Will there be a Top Gun 3? And if so, how long will we have to wait for it? Franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer is certainly up for talking trilogy, but that assumes Tom Cruise doesn’t die. If Top Gun were any other franchise we could be certain a third movie would have been…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long history of not giving blockbuster films (comic book movies in particular) their fair shake during awards season. Though Heath Ledger’s unpredictable Joker performance received award recognition posthumously back in 2009, many felt the film was unfairly snubbed. Legendary director, Steven Spielberg, happens to be one of those people, and he’s sharing his thoughts about The Dark Knight’s oscar snub, and why this year’s Oscar nominations for Top Gun: Maverick and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJennifer Connelly is pushing for her Top Gun: Maverick costar Tom Cruise to receive an Oscar nod for Best Actor.The veteran action star reprised his titular role as US naval aviator Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 reboot of the 1986 original. Connelly played Cruise’s love interest in the new film, Penny Benjamin.Action stars rarely receive a nomination for…

Obviously we all know that something is badly wrong in the world of theatrically exhibited cinema. But no film has illuminated this issue quite like Tár, a film with such seemingly unstoppable critical buzz that Oscar glory seems all but certain, but has barely been watched by anyone at all. So far, around the entire world, fewer people have seen Tár than saw Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile in its first two days of release. And Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile wasn’t exactly a heaving success, either.However, all that might be about to…

From the look of things, 2023 is shaping up to be a year of risk-taking and new beginnings for Maverick Sabre. A few days ago, he took to Instagram to tease that he’d soon be releasing a beat tape of sorts, but before that comes, he’s shared Conducta’s bumpy garage remix of “I Need”, the opening track to his 2012-released debut LP, Lonely Are The Brave.The new remix arrives not long after Mav himself revisited the Lonely Are The Brave album in its entirety. Having reclaimed his masters, he completely re-recorded the…

The making of Top Gun: Maverick was no small task, and it involved working extremely closely with the United States Navy to pull off this authentic and extreme movie about fighter pilots. Joseph Kosinski, the director of the legacy sequel, has been extremely open about his “quest for authenticity” on this movie, as he told Deadline. Most recently he talked about how he was allowed to go places and see things within the Navy that many civilians could never see. However, because the Navy was letting the director behind the…

Top Gun: Maverick was as big a hit as anybody could have possibly imagined. While technically not the highest grossing movie of 2022, it’s still one of the highest grossing movies of all-time worldwide. For so many fans who thought they’d never see the Top Gun sequel, the film is quite a big deal, and we all have director Joseph Kosinki to thank for convincing Tom Cruise to make the movie.While Tom Cruise publicly expressed interest in making a Top Gun 2 for a long time, Kosinski tells Deadline that, especially following…