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Inside the Top Gun: Maverick Cockpit

Tom Cruise is once again entering the danger zone. The highly-anticipated sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, picks up decades after the 1986 blockbuster, with the action star reprising his role as hotshot pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. For many fans, the original has evolved into a timeless feel-good film.  “Top Gun is the movie that took Tom from a promising young actor onto the road to superstar,” director Joseph Kosinski [Tron: Legacy, Oblivion] tells Den of Geek. “It’s just a great story and a great friendship between Maverick and Goose [Anthony Edwards]. The notion of the wingman was created with Top Gun…
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Top Gun: Maverick Delay Raises New Fears of Mass Exodus for Fall Movies

Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick is not the first major fall movie to exit the 2021 release calendar. That honor belongs to another Paramount film, Clifford the Big Red Dog. Nevertheless, this latest pushback for the Tom Cruise sequel suggests that another round of mass Hollywood delays may be imminent as COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise. Top Gun: Maverick, which follows up on one of Cruise’s signature hits from the 1980s, was originally intended to release in summer 2020 until our first brush with the COVID-19 pandemic caused the spectacle to be delayed first to Christmas of that year…
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Top Gun: Maverick Thrusts to 2021

Top Gun: Maverick has, once again, veered away from its primary objective of a release date. The reason remains the same: the escalation of COVID-19 cases, which have kept theaters shuttered for several months, with no sign of relenting. Paramount has thusly shifted the release date of Top Gun: Maverick to July 2, 2021—nearly a year from now. Indeed, this marks the latest lengthy setback for the nostalgia-laden Tom Cruise blockbuster sequel, specifically the second six-month release date shift for the film, which was rescheduled a few months ago to land for a Christmas season premiere of December 23, 2020…
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Top Gun: Maverick Won’t Hit Theaters Until Christmas

We’ll all have to wait a little longer to see the much-anticipated follow-up to iconic 1980s American action film Top Gun, titled Top Gun: Maverick. Paramount just announced (via The Hollywood Reporter) that the sequel film starring Tom Cruise, originally slated to be released in June, will now hit theaters on December 23rd. Top Gun: Maverick is the latest Hollywood film to be pulled from and/or shifted on the 2020 release schedule in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic which has seen many theaters in the United States and internationally closed for the foreseeable future. Most early summer blockbusters have…
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