Top Gun: Maverick

California's economy took off with Paramount Pictures' Top Gun: Maverick as its wingman, according to new data from the studio.

- More than $1.2 million spent on hardware and lumber supplies. California is fighting back with a uniquely targeted tax credit program, not to mention being home to the best crews, talent, infrastructure, locations, weather and everything else that makes us the world’s entertainment production capital.” California Film Commission executive director Colleen Bell said of Top Gun: Maverick, “The film had a very positive impact on our economy, bringing production jobs and spending to regions across the state. We look forward to our continuing partnership and support from the state so that Paramount can continue to produce amazing projects of scale and excitement.” Productions like Top Gun: Maverick create jobs and support local businesses, while also highlighting our industry’s proud partnership with the U.S. military, which is particularly fitting as we celebrate Military Appreciation Month and Memorial Day in the coming weeks.” California’s economy took off with Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick as its wingman, according to new data from the studio.

''I was nervous about kind of lending myself to that world,' said Miles Teller on joining 'Top Gun: Maverick' cast.

The actor continued, ‘I mean, when Tom Cruise handpicks you to be his co-star in a movie and to play the son of Goose, those are big shoes to fill. The actor revealed that he was ‘nervous’ to join the star cast of the much-awaited sequel of the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun and shared that he had ‘big shoes’ to fill when Cruise picked him up to play the son of a beloved character Goose in the film. Teller, 35, who has delivered outstanding performances in movies like The Spectacular Now and Whiplash said that he was ‘apprehensive’ about joining the sequel, which was mounted on a big scale as he has always focused on doing ‘smaller scale things’ in his career.

Feel the need for speed in a flimsy but fun fighter plane sequel to the iconic 80s classic.

In fact, a much truer Top Gun sequel was actually made a few years ago: Good Kill, in which Ethan Hawke plays a Cruise-esque fighter pilot exiled to drone duty, losing his mind in a metal box in the Las Vegas desert as he presses a button and kills civilians thousands of miles away. But the main problem is that the mission is so improbably specific to the needs of the plot. Matthew Modine and Bryan Adams were among the '80s stars who declined to be involved in the original because of its jingoistic tone, which was a post-Vietnam reassertion of American military (and masculine) might. There's no disguising that a lot of the story is a rerun of the original. So the over-the-top action is balanced with appealing humor and even a little pathos in Cruise's relationship with the younger flyers and his rekindled romance with a bar owner. Unlike recent blockbusters (ahem, Marvel movies) which distance you from the action with clearly impossible camera angles and over-the-top CG effects, Top Gun: Maverick uses the visual language of the original, the camera jammed claustrophobically into a cockpit or shaking as it struggles to keep up with a jet screaming past.

May 13, 2022 at 4:45 a.m.. By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press. Early on in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise hops on his sleek motorcycle ...

But she’s also not a push-over for on-again-off-again Maverick and, in a key scene, she’s the comfortable pilot of a boat and he’s the clueless one. “The future is coming and you’re not in it,” Maverick is told by Ed Harris, playing a humorless admiral. Worst, he’s called “pops.” What is remarkable is that Cruise looks to have indeed found a way to thwart time. This is Cruise at his most Cruise-iest, coiled, sure and arrogant, teeth gleaming in the sunshine. It’s not weighed down by its past like the last “Ghostbusters” sequel, but rather soars by using the second to answer and echo issues with the first. Early on in “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise hops on his sleek motorcycle, wearing Aviator sunglasses and a leather jacket with patches, and speeds into a time machine.

'Top Gun: Maverick' star Jennifer Connelly talks about working with Tom Cruise for the first time and learning to tend bar for the film.

I was 14 when I made that movie. “That movie had a profound impact on people.” We had a working beer tap on set, and I spent a lot of time pouring. I do have a nickname, but from way back when I was in college. The boat was at an impossible angle, moving so fast, and we had to play the scene at the same time. Despite the optics of shirtless volleyball games and locker room sparring, you can’t make a “Top Gun” movie without a strong and emotionally centered woman.

Believe the hype. "Top Gun: Maverick" rules. The long-delayed sequel — it was filmed back in 2018, and has been in a holding pattern ever since — finally hit ...

It's not the one you want to wait to watch at home on Paramount+. It's the one you want to see on the biggest screen possible, with the loudest sound available, and the one you're going to want to see in theaters two or three times. Audiences are now back, movie theaters are starting to thrive again and "Top Gun: Maverick" is the big-screen, get-your-popcorn, refill-your-soda, bring-your-friends, everybody-have-a-good-time movie theater experience you've been waiting for. Abso-flipping-lutely. "Top Gun: Maverick" was most recently held back from a November 2021 release because theaters still weren't fully open due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was the right choice. "Top Gun" embraces the old times in a fun, fresh way. Cruise, who turns 60 this summer, looks magnificent, and still carries himself like the 24-year-old who lit up the screen in the first "Top Gun." And he still hasn't lost that lovin' feeling. Fans, who may have been worried about the mere notion of a "Top Gun" sequel, can rest easy.

Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise explains how he helped plan the highly-anticipated sequel's aerial dogfights and exciting action sequences.

Although the cast learned how to fly and were placed inside actual fighter jets for their flight scenes, they were not allowed to control the aircraft due to a litany of legal and liability reasons. For the original Top Gun, Cruise and his co-stars were placed inside F-14 Tomcats for certain scenes, unfortunately, due to a lack of flight experience, the cast could not perform in those conditions. People recently caught up with the cast and crew of Top Gun: Maverick where Cruise detailed how the aircraft stunts and dogfights were planned. In preparation for the sequel film, Teller, along with his fellow on-screen squad-mates, were put through a rigorous Top Gun "boot camp" designed by Cruise and the U.S. Navy. Known for his predilection for realism in his films, the star intended to shoot all of the actors inside actual F/A-18 Superhornet fighter jets during their flight scenes. Cruise returns to the role of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to the actor's 1986 classic blockbuster, Top Gun. Maverick sees Mitchell return to the elite fighter pilot school to train a new squadron of hot-shot pilots for a special mission. Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise explains how the hi-octane aerial stunts and dogfights were planned in the highly-anticipated upcoming film.

The only star besides Tom Cruise to reprise his role in Top Gun: Maverick, Kilmer tells PEOPLE of the life-changing first film: "My main joy was the ...

For the actor, becoming Iceman once again was "like being reunited with a long lost friend." If you'll pardon the pun." . . . I read the lines indifferently." As for his off-screen relationship with Cruise, "I am happy to announce we have home movies to prove how much fun we had!" He was 26 at the time and made fast friends with his co-stars. "I didn't want the part.

In honor of Top Gun day, the team behind Top Gun: Maverick has launched a trivia challenge available on Instagram or Facebook Messenger.

From every trailer and new piece of marketing, Top Gun: Maverick appears to be another shining example of the movie-going experience. In honor of Top Gun Day, May 13, Paramount Pictures is letting fans take the Flight School Trivia Challenge on Facebook Messenger and Instagram. Now if you think you're a Top Gun expert, you can finally put your skills to the test in a brand-new trivia game.

OneRepublic dropped their new song "I Ain't Worried" for the 'Top Gun: Maverick' soundtrack with a music video of clips featuring Tom Cruise.

“I’ll take it in and let it go, but I ain’t worried ’bout it right now,” sings OneRepublic leading man Ryan Tedder as Cruise’s character, Pete Mitchell, plays a round of beach football. The Top Gun: Maverick sound track just soared to a new height. The visual cuts in between clips of the band performing in a sunset, palm tree-decorated outdoor stage and clips taken straight from the May 27-slated movie.

Say what you like about the 59-year-old action star, but with Top Gun: Maverick Tom Cruise has resuscitated the summer blockbuster in emphatic fashion.

“So I had to get them up to be able to sustain high Gs. Because they have to act in the plane. According to an interview with Empire (via USA Today) from last year, in which they spoke to super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the actor “put in a request” to fly the actual F-18, ultimately denied clearance by the Navy. But there was a compromise: instead, IMAX cameras were installed into the cockpits of F-18s flown by Navy pilots qualified to, you know, actually handle a multi-million dollar military machine. Kinetic event cinema that you can feel, that makes you feel, unrestrained by the uncanny valley of greenscreens and impassive CGI.

And the actor used that status to personally lobby the makers of Maverick — including Cruise, director Joseph Kosinski and executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer ...

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Moviegoers at Scotiabank Theatre Chinook were told they would be seeing the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun as part of the Paramount-proclaimed Top Gun day on ...

The folks at Paramount have requested we hold back on two detailed a review since the film isn’t due in theatres for another couple of weeks. Directed by Joseph Kosinkski, the storyline revolves around Cruise’s Pete (Maverick) Mitchell and a new batch of “top guns”. Thirty-six years after the action of the first film, he has a seemingly stalled career in the Navy despite being a top aviator who is highly decorated for his bravery. Nevertheless, Calgary became one of only four cities in North America and the only Canadian market to get a sneak peak of the action film.

The first reviews for Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick are overwhelmingly positive with most critics calling it one of the best studio films in years and an ...

Many critics say that the representation of women could have been a lot better, particularly for a movie made in 2022. However, as Linda Marric of The Jewish Chronicle notes, “ It’s a launching pad for a potential second or even third sequel with its young cast at the center of new adventures.” Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSelle says, “Top Gun: Maverick improves on the original. But if the early reviews are to be believed, the sequel may have even surpassed the original. “Breathtakingly balletic, and grounded in the increasingly rare pleasure of the tangible… Also read: First reactions for Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick are in with critics calling it ‘the best movie in ten years’

The long-awaited Tom Cruise film seeks to take your breath away with its unyielding nostalgia.

With Top Gun: Maverick you can feel the focus-grouped storytelling and updated demographics of the modern IP blockbuster — not so much because there’s a female pilot, played by the terrific Monica Barbaro, but because there are so many endings, with so many characters getting their turn to resolve their trauma. It’s possible to read this new film, with its cascading third-act impossibilities and reciprocal acts of self-sacrifice and reincarnation, as a Boomer’s apologia and fantasy of reconciliation with the next generation. (Maverick’s orders also sound like the plan to blow up the Death Star.) Yet at the same time, the resonances of the 1980s combined with this strike against an Evil Empire (Reagan loved Star Wars) make Top Gun: Maverick a dream come true, in ways the filmmakers could not necessarily have anticipated, for audiences preoccupied by America’s renewed hostilities with Russia. (“The future is coming,” he’s told, “you’re not in it.”) But a new mission requires his particular set of skills, and he returns to the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School to train up a new crop of attractive young camera fodder. Much of the aerial action in Top Gun: Maverick was filmed with IMAX-resolution cameras secreted within the cockpits of fighter jets, where the actors also sat, mostly in the backseat. The vagueness of Top Gun: Maverick makes it a bit like a video game, as do the mission parameters — fly in low, through a narrow valley, deliver a precision strike on a tiny target and peel out to safety, dodging antiaircraft missiles and enemy aircraft — which points up the link between gaming, modern warfare’s reliance on joystick-jockey drone operators and military recruitment. (The soft-focus nostalgia of Reagan’s “Morning Again in America” went hand-in-hand with his rhetorical war against the counterculture and flat-track bully military incursions into Grenada and Libya.) Three and a half decades on, Top Gun: Maverick is the perfect blockbuster for America under gerontocracy. (His disapproving commander is played by Jon Hamm, once again cast, as per his blood-borne peevish gravitas, as an asshole Fed.) Among the cocky flyboys is Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, callsign “Rooster,” the son of his best friend and Radar Intercept Officer Goose, who died in the 1986 film; Miles Teller, as Rooster, dresses just like Anthony Edwards, who played his dad. The original Top Gun, the highest-grossing film of 1986, was about beautiful boys dick-fencing in the sky before setting homoerotic rivalries aside to take on the Russkies. Shot in a high-gloss advertorial style by Tony Scott (the critic Pauline Kael called him “Tony ‘Make It Glow’ Scott”), toplined by the grinning yuppie cocksman Cruise and produced with the full, enthusiastic cooperation of the United States Navy, it was the most successful military recruitment ad of all time, a triumphant showcase for American soft and hard power at a time when our sundowning president was proclaiming the reversal of American decline. Top Gun: Maverick, which has its world premiere in Cannes next week before opening theatrically on Memorial Day weekend, was shot over the course of a year, from spring 2018 to 2019, during the course of which its star, Tom Cruise, turned 57. In James Salter’s novel The Hunters, a fighter pilot on rotation in the Korean War considers the end of his career: “He was thirty-one, not too old, certainly; but it would not be long.” Salter, who flew F-86 Sabres in Korea and shot down a MiG north of the Yalu River on the Fourth of July, 1952, continues: “His eyes weren’t good enough any more. Other things could help to make up for it, and other eyes could help him look, but in the end it was too much of a handicap.

Actors Jay Ellis and Danny Ramirez talk about their roles in the long-awaited "Top Gun: Maverick" film.

The technology may be new but this is a very old-fashioned affair, building on the legacy of its 1986 predecessor with wit and grace.

The martinet Admiral Simpson (Jon Hamm), in overall command of the mission, thoroughly disapproves of Maverick and is looking for any opportunity to fire him. There is simmering Oedipal tension between “Rooster” and “Maverick”. The veteran instructor is determined not to see the newcomer share his father’s fate. There’s a wonderful scene early on, with Cruise in the bar owned by Penny (Jennifer Connelly), one of his old flames. Instead, under Admiral Kazinsky’s instructions, Maverick is dispatched to mission headquarters to train up a detachment of graduates, the “best of the best”, for a near-impossible task to blow up an Iranian uranium enrichment plant. Unlike his old friend/antagonist Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer), who is now an admiral, Pete remains a humble captain. Arriving in cinemas 36 years after the original, it defies cynicism and confirms Tom Cruise’s status as Hollywood’s “mission leader” when it comes to blockbusters.