Maverick

If you’ve seen Top Gun: Maverick, and let’s be honest most people have (it made like a billion dollars), then you know how incredible and also uncomfortable some of those jet scenes were in the movie. Turns out they were so bad that Tom Cruise found a way to help his fellow actors with G-force induced nausea. Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an with The Hollywood Reporter, revealed just how Cruise helped his nauseous co-stars. “ had our actors three months in different types of jets so they could handle the…

Of all the career opportunities that could present themselves to an up-and-coming guitarist in the mid-60s, the offer of replacing Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds was one you might think twice about accepting. It wasn’t just that Clapton was talented; it was that – uniquely for British rock at the time – he was the Yardbirds’ star attraction. His presence so obviously overshadowed that of their frontman, Keith Relf, that one of their peers wrote a song about it. Manfred Mann’s The One in the Middle affectionately mocked…

Image: Disney ParksThe Tron franchise continues at Disney Parks—in attraction form, that is. Walt Disney World’s long-awaited Tron Lightcycle / Run debuts in the Magic Kingdom on April 4. It’s the second version of the ride, the first being the Shanghai Disneyland attraction which opened with the park back in 2016.The ride is inspired by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski’s 2010 sequel to 1982's Tron. Tron: Legacy followed its predecessor in becoming a cult film, thanks in no small part to the immaculate score by…

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: Paramount"Top Gun: Maverick" was the highest grossing theatrical release in 2022, but its $719 million haul wasn't enough to make its studio, Paramount, ruler of the domestic box office.The Tom Cruise-led action film was a juggernaut, generating $719 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada, the most of any film released in 2022, according to data from Comscore. It also accounted for more than half of Paramount's overall domestic haul for the year.Other releases, including…

Yet more video game veterans are forming a new studio after leaving an industry heavyweight. Key leaders from Forza Horizon creator Playground Games have established Maverick Games, a Leamington Spak, UK development house devoted to 'AAA' titles. Gamesindustry.biz notes the studio is headed by former Horizon creative director Mike Brown, while executive producer Tom Butcher, technical chief Matt Craven, content director Gareth Harwood and audio lead Fraser Strachan. The 10-person team's art director is Ben Penrose, who…

Former Playground Games creative director Mike Brown has announced the formation of Maverick Games, a new studio that’s currently developing a “premium open-world game” for console and PC platforms. The new studio was announced today (January 10) and will see Brown serve as creative director and studio head. He will be joined by Sumo Digital Leamington‘s former co-studio head Harinder Sangha, who will serve as COO. Additionally, a number of Brown’s fellow developers at Playground Games will be joining Maverick Games in…

The Way of Water has cracked the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time.Image: DisneyIn Avatar: The Way of Water, people from Earth hunt down the Na’vi of Pandora as part of a larger plan to take over their planet. But here on actual Earth, the Na’vi have officially won the war.As of Wednesday, James Cameron’s sequel has grossed $1.51 billion globally, which bests the $1.49 billion Top Gun: Maverick grossed earlier this year. That means Avatar: The Way of Water is now the highest-grossing film of 2022 globally.…

Avatar: The Way of Water, the sequel to James Cameron’s worldwide 2009 blockbuster Avatar, will overtake Top Gun: Maverick as the highest-grossing film released in 2022.According to Deadline, the film’s receipts mean it will pass $1.5bn globally on Thursday, going past Top Gun: Maverick’s $1.49bn. However Top Gun – which came out in May – remains the highest-grossing film of 2022 as Avatar’s total is exceeding it only in first week of 2023.Cameron has been working on Avatar: The Way of Water since at least 2006, three…

Tom Cruise Got Annoyed As Hell On Brad Pitt Winning An Oscar Nomination ( Photo Credit – Flickr; Facebook ) Hollywood’s two of top-most actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise do not see each other eye-to-eye and the reasons are never-ending. However, the recent reason has to be the Golden Globes as Brad Pitt’s Babylon got an Oscar nomination over Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick even though it has received a lot of appreciation for it. Now, as per rumours and reports, Tom is quite unhappy with the Oscar nominations. Scroll…

OTT releases this week: These are the best movies and shows to watch on Disney+ Hotstar, Netflix, Amazon,more. Check the full list, it includes Top Gun: Maverick, Butterfly, Aar ya Paar and more. This is the last weekend of the current year and also the first of the upcoming one. This means cinephiles would already have planned for their watch parties to enjoy marathon runs of great movies and shows to watch online, from the comfort of their home. But if you think your playlist is ready, then think again. Some really…