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Tom Cruise swooped into the Paris Olympics today in a spectacular stunt straight out of Mission Impossible. A fixture at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad since the July 26 Opening Ceremony, the Top Gun star proved the pivot point in Paris’ handover to Los Angeles 2028. Daniel Craig, the late Queen Eli…

The actor who played “Wolfman” in the original Top Gun is suing Paramount Pictures over what he claims is the unauthorized use of his likeness in the 2022 sequel. Barry Tubb, the actor who played Leonard “Wolfman” Wolfe in the 1986 movie Top Gun, filed a complaint Wednesday in California court…

Lady Gaga, whose 2019 duet with Bradley Cooper of the Oscar-winning “Shallow” has gone down as one of the most memorable moments in Academy Awards history, returned to the stage tonight to deliver another emotional performance, this time of her Oscar-nominated song “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun…

Tom Whitlock, who won a Best Song Oscar for co-writing the No. 1 smash ‘Take My Breath Away’ from Top Gun and also wrote the film’s other hit single “Danger Zone,” has died. He was 68. Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home confirmed that he died February 18 in Gallatin, TN. No cause was…

It’s hard to pick a group of images to sum up an entire year, especially a very strange year full of shocking statements — Kanye West likes Hitler? — sudden turnabouts — Bob Iger, anyone? — and unexpected, tragic deaths like that of Anne Heche. There were also wonderful surprises, such as Wednesday, Top Gun: Maverick…

The Vue International Cinema chain has reduced its valuation by approximately half to around £650million ($785.6million). The Times reports that the company is being restructured in a deal that has protected it from a €130 million legal claim in Germany and allowed new funds to be injected into operations…

Following the phenomenal success of Top Gun: Maverick at the international box office, one of its stars has revealed he has been "having some conversations" about a follow-up film. Miles Teller, who plays Rooster, son of Maverick's late best friend Goose, opposite Tom Cruise in the title role, told Entertainment Tonigh…

Fresh from box office triumph with Top Gun: Maverick, director Joseph Kosinski promises similar "in-camera action" on his forthcoming racing car movie. Kosinski says he will be using effects created solely by the camera — to make viewers feel like they are behind the wheel at 200mph, in the film with the working title…

Top Gun: Maverick's Cannes Film Festival premiere marks another high point in the movie star career of Tom Cruise. The actor turns 60 on July 3, and unlike most leading men of that age who become quicker to call for the stunt double, Cruise shows little evidence of slowing down after 43 films. If anything, his Mission…

CBS is dusting off its 1980s Saturday Night Movies franchise to showcase the 1986 Tom Cruise film Top Gun May 14. The synergy play is designed to promote sister studio Paramount Pictures’ upcoming sequel, Top Gun Maverick, which hits theaters May 27. This is believed to be a one-off and not a relaunch of Saturday Night…

China's Tencent is teaming with Paramount on Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, and next year's Top Gun sequel. Tencent Pictures is acting as an investor and co-marketing partner on the two films with the Transformers origin story set for release on December 21 in the U.S. and January 4 in the Middle Kingdom. It is the…

As a cottage meme industry suddenly forms of people trying to superimpose a CNN logo on something President Donald Trump proceeds to act out in violence on, one caught the eye of Donald Trump Jr, who retweeted it to his 1.78 million Twitter followers today. The clip borrows from the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun and…