Tom Cruise Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise, one of the top movie stars in Hollywood, is about to have the biggest opening weekend of his career.

"From a philosophical standpoint, because of what their presence on the big screen has meant for theatrical exhibition, it might very well prove to be one of the most important years in Paramount's storied history." "Cruise is all about the marathon, not the sprint, when it comes to his performance at the box office," Dergarabedian said. That will easily make "Maverick" the highest-grossing debut in Cruise's 40 year career, overtaking "War of the Worlds," which opened to $64.8 million in 2005. Cruise has gone all out, from landing a helicopter on the deck of an aircraft carrier Cruise and Paramount are already on target for a big weekend, with the film making $19.2 million in its preview showings. Cruise is reprising his role as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, the cocky fighter pilot who felt the need for speed 36 years ago.

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This time, the ghost haunting Maverick is Goose, and the film’s emotional weight rests on him fighting to earn the respect of Rooster, a crack pilot who holds Maverick responsible for his father’s death. In Top Gun, he’s a skilled pilot chasing the ghost of his much-admired dad, a deceased Navy legend, and he’s constantly taking risks, to the consternation of his commanding officers. But as a stand-alone blockbuster that’s just trying to suck viewers’ eyeballs out of their sockets with hellacious flight photography and thunderous sound, Maverick is just what every cineplex in the country has been crying out for. In Maverick, he’s not all that different, having declined promotions beyond the rank of captain and now working as a test pilot for experimental military planes accelerating toward 10 times the speed of sound. As a sequel, the film is not narratively groundbreaking, focusing on the protagonist’s struggle to let go of the past in our less sentimental present. That quality is a hallmark of Cruise’s recent cinematic output, which has stressed big-screen verisimilitude and the sense that the actor is stretching his physical limits.

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The film opens on an aircraft carrier and then gives us exactly what we want: Maverick. We watch as he preps for a test flight to achieve Mach 10 speed (a feat that has never been recorded … to our knowledge). As he does so, we get a clear glimpse of the Porsche Design Chronograph on his wrist. Keep your eyes peeled for an air-cooled Porsche 911 and a Ford Bronco, in addition to the OG bike. To my knowledge there isn't a modern stopwatch in the IWC catalog so it's possible this was made just for the film. In fact, it looks to be the exact one he wore in the original film. Brands like Heuer and LeJour made effectively identical watches to the Porsche Design chronos, with the same movements, only a different logo on the dial. In fact, this movie is what I might call a target-rich environment for watch spotting. In a pivotal scene toward the film's end, you'll see a prominently featured IWC stopwatch. In 1986, Maverick famously wore a Porsche Design Chronograph 1 by Orfina, a fully blacked-out sport watch that came to prominence in the '70s and '80s. So what does he wear in 2022? There are special IWC models that are only available to instructors and students. The original Top Gun (1986) was an unhinged, hyperpatriotic adrenaline rush that served up a testimony to American military might – with a side order of volleyball in jeans. When last we saw Maverick, he was but a student – now he is the master. But the basic setup is as follows: A rogue nation is harboring a uranium repository deep within a mountain base.

It couldn't outmaneuver the pandemic enemy that delayed its release for two years, but “Top Gun: Maverick” can't lose, really.

Deadline Highlights so far include France, which bowed Wednesday to $1.8M, scoring the biggest opening day for a Paramount live-action title and also for Cruise ...

Thursday added $2.9M for the best Ascension Day opening of any movie there ever. Thursday added $2.9M for the best Ascension Day opening of any movie there ever. The promotional campaign has very likely been visible from space. In Australia, Thursday’s debut was $1.5M for a $2.5M total including previews. This is Cruise’s biggest opening day ever Down Under. Germany debuted to $1.6M for a $2.5M cume with previews. Rolled up with previews, the France cume through Thursday is $5.9M. The movie has 4.5 stars out of 5 from audiences who are turning out in the cities and the provinces across varied demos.Highlights so far include France, which bowed Wednesday to $1.8M, scoring the biggest opening day for a Paramount live-action title and also for Cruise in the market.

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“It's almost like the pandemic is enabling Hollywood to hit the reset,” Dergarabedian said. Inflation rates in the late ’70s and early ’80s were consistently above 10%, and economists are widely predicting a new era of “ stagflation” as the 2020s come to seem more like the disco era than the Jazz Age. “Nothing provides a great escape like the movies.” It’s perhaps no coincidence that the superhero boom began in earnest with The Dark Knight and Iron Man in 2008, the year the Great Recession began. The revolution that began with Jaws and was entrenched with Star Wars in 1977 came during the Great Inflation, a period of economic turmoil in the U.S. similar to the one moviegoers are living through today. These types of movies predicated a major shift in the industry. “Superhero movies are great, but we don't just want the movie theater to be about superheroes.”

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Director Francis Ford Coppola was on a Hinton jag: he also adapted her classic teen gang tale The Outsiders. Matt Dillon was in both, with the latter featuring numerous fledgling actors – Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and … Tom Cruise. It wasn’t clear who would be the biggest star, but with Risky Business and Top Gun to follow, Cruise was to outrun them all. Goose was played by Anthony Edwards, best known as Dr Mark Greene in medical drama ER, set in Chicago. In the 90s the second city had a pop cultural moment, from Oprah’s empire to the rise of post-rock and the dominance of basketball team the Chicago Bulls. With Top Gun: Maverick in cinemas and two Missions: Impossible in the works, it’s a busy time for Tom: Cruise. Jumping on from Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster, the sequel finds Maverick still writing cheques his body can’t cash: Cruise pilot is training Top Gun graduates.

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War filmmakers of the 1940s and ’50s could set their films during a time when there was serious doubt about whether the U.S. could really claim to be the most powerful military during an existential conflict. Perhaps the next “Top Gun” can just have an octogenarian Cruise fighting kaiju. We’ve all had a good look at the sorry state of Russian military hardware in the last few weeks, and China builds nuclear power plants totally unmolested because it’s on the other side of the globe. (Even in “Zero Dark Thirty,” the heroine discovers where Osama bin Laden’s compound is located because of information already contained in dusty CIA files, an entirely true plot point the movie understandably hurries past). In “Maverick,” the heroes are the manufacturers of fighter jets, at loggerheads with the “Drone Ranger,” a Reaper-loving general played by Ed Harris, who wants to take the fight away from our heroic stick jockeys. Aside from Cruise, the main draw to “Maverick,” as with the first “Top Gun,” are its cool-looking supersonic airplanes, each of which costs more than one-fourth of the new movie’s reported $170 million budget. “Very little was released to the public then,” Ford said of the footage he shot during World War II in an interview with American Legion Magazine in 1964. That means audiences get head-scratching choices like the decision not to name the movie’s foreign adversary. “Apparently the Government was afraid to show so many American casualties on the screen.” Indeed, some of it stayed hidden until 2014. (Cruise’s pilot stand-in from the original “Top Gun” went on to become an astronaut). When director Scott was told it would cost $25,000 to steer an aircraft carrier into the light so he could get the shot he needed for the first film, he famously wrote a check on the spot. In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the enemy is an unnamed country that threatens our freedoms with a NATO-adjacent nuclear plant and state-of-the-art fighter jets and helicopters. (Donald’s nightmare about being a Nazi, “ Der Fuehrer’s Face,” also won an Oscar). Superman starred in an appallingly racist theatrical short called “The Japoteurs.” Celebrated director John Ford worked for the Office of Strategic Services — the precursor to the CIA — heading its field photographic division; in 1942 he shot a documentary about the Battle of Midway as a soldier deployed during the battle itself.

Tom Cruise is out there crushing his personal best records and setting Memorial Day weekend milestones like it's 1996.

If Top Gun: Maverick legs like Fast & Furious 6 ($117 million from a $39 million Friday) or Solo: A Star Wars Story ($103 million/$35 million), it still gets to over/under $154 million for the Fri-Mon weekend. I don’t know the budget, but I’m guessing somewhere between Teen Titans GO! To the Movies ($10 million) and The Simpsons Movie ($75 million). That was a record for an R-rated opener, besting the $36 million debut of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s Interview with the Vampire (which set the record for a non-summer debut in November of 1994). 26 years ago, Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible opened with a $45 million Fri-Sun gross (the fourth biggest behind Batman Forever, Jurassic Park and Batman Returns) and a then-record $75 million six-day gross over its Wed-Mon Memorial Day weekend. 22 years ago, Mission: Impossible II opened with $58 million over the Fri-Sun part (behind only The Lost World and The Phantom Menace) of a $92 million Wed-Mon debut. Before this weekend, Tom Cruise’s biggest opening weekend outside of the Mission: Impossible franchise ($62 million for Fallout) and Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds ($65 million over the Fri-Sun part of a $100 million Wed-Sun debut) was... Likewise, and this relates to the current Memorial Day blockbuster, Harrison Ford’s biggest opener before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($100 million Fri-Sun/$150 million Thurs-Mon) in 2008 was...

'Top Gun: Maverick,' starring Tom Cruise, scored the best preview gross in Paramount's history as began hitting theaters.

Overseas, Maverick opens in 62 markets, although it has yet to secure a China release date and won’t open in South Korea for two more weeks. The film, which presently sports a stellar 97 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, co-stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell and Ed Harris, while Val Kilmer also makes a brief appearance as “Iceman,” Maverick’s one-time nemesis-turned-pal. The rest of his films have opened to less than $60 million. It earned $1.5 million in previews. The film’s release was delayed two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many pundits believe the critically acclaimed sequel could soar well north of $100 million domestically, but tracking — one of Hollywood’s favorite pastimes — has become fraught in the pandemic era.