The nearly two-year old dogfight between Paramount and the family of the writer of the 1983 article that inspired the franchise is over.
26.03.2024 - 23:29 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tom Cruise is a busy man, which makes it all but impossible to put a timeline on when “Top Gun” fans might finally get to see a third installment in the beloved action-drama franchise. Variety confirmed in January that Paramount was developing “Top Gun 3” and had tapped its “Top Gun: Maverick” co-writer Ehren Kruger to work on the screenplay. Franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer now tells ScreenRant he has no idea when Cruise might even have free time in his schedule to shoot the third “Top Gun” film.
“It will be Tom Cruise [leading the cast],” Bruckheimer said. “Tom is amazing. We spent time with him.
We have a story. Joe Kosinski had a wonderful story idea for it, and [Tom] said, ‘I really like that,’ so we’re developing it. But you never know when it’s going to get made because Tom is so busy.
He’s doing ‘Mission: Impossible’ right now, he’s got a picture after it. Hopefully, we’ll get a screenplay that he loves, and we’ll be back in the air again.” Cruise is currently filming “Mission: Impossible 8,” which will serve as the sequel to last year’s “Dead Reckoning.” Paramount is also behind that action franchise. The studio is hoping that “Top Gun: Maverick”director Joseph Kosinski will return to helm the next “Top Gun” movie.
Bruckheimer now confirmed Kosinski came up with the story idea for the next sequel. “Top Gun” newcomers Glen Powell, Miles Teller and more are likely to return. “People looked at me like I knew what was going on,” Powell told Variety at Sundance earlier this year about the next “Top Gun ” movie.
“There is going to be some fun stuff being announced soon…but it was confidential to me. I talk to [Joseph] Kosinski, Cruise and Jerry [Bruckheimer] all the time. There is
.The nearly two-year old dogfight between Paramount and the family of the writer of the 1983 article that inspired the franchise is over.
borrowed too much from a 1983 magazine article that inspired the original “Top Gun” film.In a decision on Friday, US District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles said the sequel was not “substantially similar” to Ehud Yonay’s “Top Guns,” about the US Navy’s Top Gun fighter pilot training school in San Diego.Yonay’s widow Shosh Yonay and son Yuval Yonay, the heirs to his copyright, said they deserved some of the sequel’s profits, after Paramount built a billion-dollar franchise off an article that “breathed life into the technical humdrum of a navy base.”Lawyers for the Yonays did not immediately respond on Monday to requests for comment.
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has show business in her blood. But unlike other , she's opted for a role behind the scenes. At least for now (teenagers are a notoriously fickle breed).Vivienne made a rare appearance alongside her mom at a preview performance of The Outsiders on April 3.
Angelina Jolie’s new musical, ‘The Outsiders,’ is on Broadway and ready for the world to see. Opening night is April 11, and the show is currently in previews.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Superstars Tom Cruise and Pedro Pascal, recent Oscar winner Emma Stone and the legendary “Godzilla Minus One” are among the winners of the 4th annual Critics Choice Super Awards. The awards, which honor fan-favorite genres in film and television, saw a diverse array of movies and TV shows garnering accolades from international critics and journalists.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Oscar-winning dramas and box office genre hits are making their way to streaming platforms this month. Far and away the best movie set to premiere is Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a disturbing masterwork about the Holocaust that picked up two Academy Awards last month: best international feature and best sound design. Distributor A24 inked a streaming deal with Max last year, so “Zone of Interest” now joins other must-see recent A24 films like Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” on the Warner Bros.
Barbenheimer. Barbie, listed in our 2023 spring movie preview, and Oppenheimer, which was not, had yet to assert their primacy over the year’s box office and pop culture conversation.Few conceived those two films would spark a phenomenon that rippled through media, fashion, merchandising, music, and awards show after awards show after awards show.After all the hype and hot takes, red carpet looks, historic victories and milestones, the Barbenheimer convo only really finally abated with the Oscar wins that shuffled Barbie, Ken, and Oppy off the stage in March, ushering cinema into the spring/summer season.Now, new cinematic fascinations await, new soundtracks of the summer, your next new favorite character or performance, some star-making smash that’ll keep the world talking until 2025.
Katie Holmes and her daughter, Suri Cruise, seem to have exciting plans for the holiday weekend. The mother-daughter duo was spotted on the move on Thursday with luggage.The very private family will likely not be sharing updates about where they are headed, but it’s nice to see them spending quality time together.Suri pulled a cute pink suitcase, showing off her personal style. She has been following in her mom’s footsteps when it comes to being a fashionista, rocking bold red pants with fun white and black designs.
Tom Cruise has been living the single life for the last month after calling it quits with 36-year-old Russian socialite Elsina Khayrova. The couple was only together for a couple of months, dating since December, with news breaking on February 21 that the 61-year-old ended the relationship.
a potential third installment of the “Top Gun” franchise in a new with interview with ScreenRant.The producer, 80, and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski approached Tom Cruise with a “wonderful” idea, and proudly stated that the action star “really liked it.”“Joe Kosinski had a wonderful story idea for it, and [Cruise] said, ‘I really like that,’ so we’re developing it,” Bruckheimer told the outlet. “But you never know when it’s going to get made because Tom is so busy.” “He’s doing ‘Mission: Impossible’ right now; he’s got a picture after it,” continued the producer.
Seven years since the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie was released in theaters, and there still is no clear path for any sequels.
We’re finally getting an update on the future of Pirates of the Caribbean!
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Pirates of the Caribbean” producer Jerry Bruckheimer said in a recent interview with ComicBook.com that the current plan is to “reboot” the beloved Disney adventure franchise, which has grossed $4.5 billion across five movies. Bruckheimer was fielding a question about the future of his hit franchises, which also includes the Tom Cruise-starring “Top Gun” series. “It’s hard to tell,” Bruckheimer said.
In what is no surprise, Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is getting into business with its Dune and Wonka star Timothée Chalamet, and has hammered a multi-year first look feature film deal with the Oscar nominee as actor and producer.
With nearly five decades of popular cinema under his belt, Jerry Bruckheimer remains one of Hollywood’s heavyweight billion-dollar producers. The mega-producer is still basking in the afterglow of the massive box office and critical reception of “Top Gun: Maverick,” and a third film in the works.
impossible not to marvel at his stamina.Tom Cruise showed off his incredible athleticism in new photos from the set of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” in London on Sunday.In photos obtained by The Post, Cruise, 61, can be seen sporting shaggy hair and a white shirt drenched in fake blood as he sprints across Westminster Bridge. Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster appear in the background in the action-packed shot.While little is known about the film, which has been reported to serve as Cruise’s final appearance as Ethan Hunt, it can be assumed that Hunt will be forced to flee some sort of fancy gathering.
Tom Cruise has been spotted in London as filming for the eighth Mission Impossible film, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, gets underway.The action film, which is a direct sequel to 2023's Mission Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, will see the Hollywood actor, 61, reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. Filming for some action-packed scenes took place in London on Sunday night (24 March), with Whitehall, Parliament Square, and Westminster Bridge all locked down from midnight to 4am to allow the filming to happen.
Shakira's new music video sees her get up close and personal with actor Lucien Laviscount.The songstress has released the video for her track Puntería, which features rapper Cardi B, from her new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. Shakira, 47, released the video on Friday, 22 March.The pink-themed video sees her get steamy with Emily in Paris star Lucien, 31, who can be seen topless as he portrays a centaur who was hit by Shakira's arrow.The actor is then dragged in a hall as Shakira cleans up his wound and runs her hands across his body.The video also sees Shakira model a pink dress as she and Lucien caress one another in the middle of an oversized flower. Lucien is best known for appearing in Emily in Paris as Emily's British love interest Alfie.