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An Apple Original Films title is heading to the big screen for the sixth time with the June 27, 2025, release of Joseph Kosinski’s Formula 1 movie starring Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem. Warner Bros has won the rights to handle both domestic and overseas. This follows Paramount releasing Martin…

Lewis Hamilton is producing a Formula 1 movie with Joseph Kosinski starring Brad Pitt. The British racing star could have worked with the filmmaker on Top Gun: Maverick had it not been for his conflicting work schedule. In a new interview, Hamilton revealed he lobbied Tom Cruise to star in a…

The need for greater residuals and more diversity were some of the vital issues expressed by filmmakers tonight at the DGA Awards ahead of the guild’s talks with the AMPTP. The DGA’s contract expires on June 30, the same day as SAG-AFTRA’s and two months after the May 1 expiration of the WGA's…

Top Gun: Maverick scored six Oscar nominations this morning including best picture, along with adapted screenplay by Ehren Kruger & Eric Warren Singer, sound, film editing, visual effects and original song for the Lady Gaga tune “Hold My Hand”. The film’s emergence as a best picture threat might have…

Tom really didn't want to make another Top Gun and [director Tony Scott's suicide] made it even less likely. I'm sure for him, that's probably another reason why he wouldn't ever consider going back. But I pitched the idea of this story being a reconciliation between him and Rooster set against this…

Every film is personal, said Steven Spielberg, "but The Fabelmans was like moving back in with my parents and my sisters. I would walk into the house that [production designer] Rick Carter designed, exactly the spitting image of the house I grew up in in Phoenix, Arizona. Everything in my bedroom from…

Tom Cruise has become notorious for performing his own stunts, and Top Gun: Maverick is no exception. In fact, the entire cast underwent intense training in order to perform many of the wild aerial stunts that audiences saw on screen when they flocked to theaters in May to see Cruise reprise his role as…

"Tony Scott set the bar very high with the first film and the aerial photography," Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski says. "I had seen some videos that Navy aviators had done of their own training sequences by putting little GoPro cameras in their cockpit, and even though it was very low res and…

Continuing its hypersonic run, Paramount/Skydance's Top Gun: Maverick has, in its 13th weekend of release, crossed the $1.4B mark worldwide, lifting the cume to a touch over $1.403B through today. When using restated international box office numbers, this would qualify the sequel as the 9th highest-grossing movie…

Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton has piloted race cars to seven world championships, but had to decline the opportunity to jump in the cockpit of a fighter jet for a role in Top Gun: Maverick, he tells Vanity Fair in a new interview. A fan of the original Top Gun, and a friend of Tom Cruise, Hamilton said, “When I…

MONDAY UPDATE: With the actuals now counted, Paramount/Skydance's Top Gun: Maverick has soared to $1.007B global through Sunday. That includes $520.8M domestically and $486.1M from 65 international markets for the Tom Cruise-starrer. The international box office weekend came in higher than estimated on Sunday (see…

UPDATE, writethru: The jet propulsion of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick continues as the Tom Cruise-starrer has now crossed $900M global in just 25 days of release. The worldwide cume through Monday is $901.9M. Of that, domestic makes up $474.8M with the international box office accounting for $427.1M. This…