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Zack Sharf Tom Cruise’s long-delayed “Top Gun: Maverick” is finally set to blast off in theaters later this month, but making a follow-up to his classic 1986 action drama was not always of interest. A 1990 interview Cruise gave to Playboy magazine during the publicity tour for “Born on the Fourth of July” has resurfaced from Gizmodo and finds the A-list star calling the idea of making a “Top Gun” sequel “irresponsible.” Cruise was responding to the interviewer calling “Top Gun” a “Nintendo game and a paean to blind patriotism” in comparison to “Born on the Fourth of July.”“Some people felt that ‘Top Gun’ was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it.

cancer. The Judging Amy star's husband Matt Bogado announced the devastating news in a Facebook post, alongside a photo of their young family. The picture featured the couple's family-of-four, showing their two children smiling together in an autumnal snap.

EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked film and TV actor Taylor Kitsch.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Interview with the Vampire” series at AMC has cast Eric Bogosian in the role of Daniel Molloy.The series, which is currently in production, is based on the Anne Rice book of the same name and follows follows Louis de Pointe, Lestat De Lioncourt and Claudia’s epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality. Bogosian joins previously announced cast members such as Sam Reid as Lestat, Jacob Anderson as Louis, and Bailey Bass as Claudia.Molloy is described as an investigative journalist nearing the end of his career who’s given a second chance at the interview of a lifetime.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorEva Zaoralová, the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival’s artistic advisor and its artistic director for many years, has died, the festival confirmed Friday.

Hollywood’s biggest night will apparently be without one of its brightest category stars.

to TMZ on Monday.“As Ned would say, he was attacked by two very rare assassins — cholangiocarcinoma [bile duct cancer] and ocular melanoma. Over the course of two years, he bravely fought the cancers in private while continuing to work in show business to ensure that his medical coverage paid for himself and his family,” Patricia told the news outlet.His rep Jeremy Leiner announced that he died Sunday at his home in New York.Eisenberg is best known for portraying defense lawyer Roger Kressler in “Law & Order” (1997 to 2009) and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (1999 to 2019) and most recently played Detective Hauser in the 2021 HBO series “Mare of Easttown.”The prolific actor was born and raised in New York City and studied acting at Fiorello H.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorNed Eisenberg, a stage and screen actor who played defense attorney Roger Kressler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Detective Hauser in “Mare of Easttown,” has died. He was 65.His agents at Nicolosi & Co.

Ned Eisenberg, a prolific stage, television and film character actor perhaps most widely recognized for his long-running recurring role as defense attorney Roger Kressler on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, died of cancer Feb. 27 at his home in New York. He was 65.

David Brenner, the Oscar-winning film editor who worked on a string of blockbusters as well as nine films for director Oliver Stone, died on Thursday. He was 59. The news was confirmed by Avatar producer Jon Landau, with whom Brenner had been working on the sequels.

Jordan Moreau David Brenner, an Oscar-winning film editor who worked on dozens of films like “Justice League,” “Independence Day,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and more, died on Thursday, Variety has confirmed. He was 59.“He was an extraordinary editor and a loving, compassionate family man.

GoFundMe page set up by “Avatar” producer Jon Landau, as well as in a social media post by Snyder. Amber Brenner did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. Brenner won his Oscar in 1990 (shared with Joe Hutshing) for working on Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July,” and he’s also credited on films such as “The Doors,” “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “World Trade Center,” “Man of Steel,” “300: Rise of an Empire” and most recently “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” He was currently at work editing James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels.

Addie Morfoot ContributorBack in the mid-1980’s, Oliver Stone met with famed financier Carl Icahn about a movie he was writing called “Wall Street.” The meeting provided the director with much of the inspiration for the film’s villain Gordon Gekko. Stone speaks about the meeting in HBO’s documentary “Icahn: The Restless Billionaire,” debuting on Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s Undone and Netflix’s Apollo 10½ producer Submarine is developing a drama based on the Baader Meinhof Gang, the notorious German terrorist organization, with Oliver Stone collaborator Moritz Borman’s Krautpack.

Joseph Reidy will receive the DGA’s Frank Capra Achievement Award and Garry Hood will receive the guild’s Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award at the 74th annual DGA Awards on Jan. 27 in recognition of their “extraordinary contributions” to the guild.

Not so long ago, it looked as if the movies had firmly embraced topicality. Digital technology had radically shortened the production cycle. Ferociously reportorial writers and/or directors like Mark Boal, Aaron Sorkin and Oliver Stone were speeding toward the screen with timely, ‘ripped-from-the-headlines’ films like Zero Dark Thirty, The Social Network and Snowden even while their real-life characters and plot lines were still unfolding. It was pretty heady stuff, all caught up in Congressional scrutiny, court transcripts and debate about ongoing government surveillance of just about everyone.

EXCLUSIVE: David O’Leary, creator/executive of Project Blue Book, and Sean Jablonski, showrunner/executive producer of the History series which chronicled U.S. Air Force’s real-life investigations into supposed UFO encounters and unexplained phenomena, are staying on the subject with an untitled Roswell drama, which has been put in development at TNT.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has put into development hourlong drama The Golden Gage, from producers Darryl Taja (The Perfect Guy) and Adam Rodin (Extant). Kiernan Shipka (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) is attached to star in the project, created and written by Page Awards finalist Oskar Nordmark. BAFTA-winning British helmer Susanna White (Andor) is set to direct the potential pilot and serve as an executive producer.

Experienced Russian executive Nadezda Motina is launching Arna Media, a theatrical distribution company for the local market that is also planning to expand into co-productions.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“Flowers Are Not Silent,” a film about the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in Belarus, will open the 25th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday.

Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he has not watched Natural Born Killers in its entirety.Speaking on Brian Koppelman’s podcast The Moment, the filmmaker addressed his much-publicised disdain of the film, which is based upon his script.“One of the things about that script in particular is that I was trying to make it on the page, so when you read it, you saw the movie,” Tarantino explained.

You know the story; before he made a name for himself as a director, Quentin Tarantino was a screenwriter trying to get his foot in the door. Before he directed “Reservoir Dogs,” he sold his “True Romance” script to Ridley Scott and sold his “Natural Born Killers” script to Regency/Warner Bros.

new documentary “Val,” out Friday, we meet Kilmer, 61, after he’s survived throat cancer. Although he denied being sick in 2016, the actor now lives with a stoma — a hole in his throat used to breathe and speak.

Conspiracy theorists have spent more time researching their subjects than you have and have facts ready at their disposable with which to bury you in. Take filmmaker Oliver Stone, for example.

Thirty years after his dramatic feature JFK, innumerable interviews and an untold number of related texts, you might have thought Oliver Stone had had his say on the Kennedy assassination.

Check out TheWrap’s digital Cannes magazine issue here. You can find all of TheWrap’s Cannes coverage here.Oliver Stone headed to the Cannes Film Festival this week 30 years after the release of his dramatic saga “JFK,” this time with a documentary about the John F. Kennedy assassination murder that aims to get more answers about the 1963 event.

CANNES, France -- Thirty years after “JFK,” Oliver Stone has returned to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this time in a documentary.“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass" is a kind of non-fiction addendum to one of Stone's most sensational and controversial films.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” lives up to its title. Directed by Oliver Stone, it’s a kind of documentary companion-piece sequel to “JFK,” and yes, it takes you through the looking glass again.

Altitude Film Sales has closed a selection of international territory deals on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone’s new documentary that re-examines the assassination of John F Kennedy some 30 years after the release of Stone’s Kevin Costner-starring thriller JFK.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSet to unfold during the busy summer holiday, the Cannes Film Festival will roll out a lineup of screenings, including world premieres and concerts on the beach aimed at holiday-makers and red carpet-jaded festival attendees.Called Le cinema de la plage, the open-air screenings will run every evening at 9:30 p.m.