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Lady Gaga Unveils Her New Top Gun: Maverick Song “Hold My Hand”

Lady Gaga has unveiled her new song,  “Hold My Hand,” which she made for the new Tom Cruise movie Top Gun: Maverick. The 13-time Grammy winner’s new single will be out Tuesday, May 3. Produced by Gaga and BloodPop® and has additional production from Benjamin Rice. The version that appears in the movie has additional…

Top Gun: Maverick | Training Featurette | Paramount Pictures

Synopsis : After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a…

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Joseph Kosinski Shot as Much Footage as All Three ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films Combined

The cast and crew of Top Gun: Maverick were so determined to capture accurate practical stunts that the feature’s director, Joseph Kosinski shot as much material as all three Lord of the Rings films combined. The helmer of the upcoming action drama captured approximately 800 hours of footage, Empire magazine is reporting. In the magazine’s…

Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures Still Battling Over ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Distribution Strategy

Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures are still battling to find a compromise over how they should release their upcoming action spy film, Mission: Impossible 7. In a new exposé, The Hollywood Reporter stated that the anticipated sequel is now at the center of a distribution battle between its lead star and producer, Cruise and production…

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Screen at Cannes Film Festival

It’s been nearly three years since footage from the long-anticipated Top Gun sequel first premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con, but the film is now finally coming out and getting a major pre-release. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Top Gun: Maverick, which comes from Paramount and Skydance, will play at this year’s Cannes Film Festival….

Plot and Filming Details For Tom Cruise’s Outer Space Movie Revealed

Tom Cruise will continue performing gravity-defying stunts in his upcoming projects, as more details about the plot and filming details for his space-set feature have emerged. The Academy Award-nominated actor is set to shoot part of the untitled movie on the International Space Station, with some footage also being obtained on a rocket, Variety is…

Interview With the Vampire Author and Screenwriter Anne Rice Dies at Age 80

Writer Anne Rice, who garnered instant international recognition and acclaim with her debut novel, Interview With the Vampire, died of complications from a stroke yesterday at the age of 80. The famed New Orleans author’s son, Christopher Rice, announced the news earlier this morning on Twitter. “She left us almost 19 years to the day…

Both ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Given New Release Dates

As the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to afflict the United States and the entire world, Paramount is expressing caution and delaying two of its major blockbusters, according to Deadline. Top Gun: Maverick will now open May 27th, 2022, taking the Memorial Day Weekend slot previously reserved for Mission: Impossible 7, which will now debut…

Paramount Sues Insurance Company Over $100M Policy Payout For Mission: Impossible 7 Covid Shutdowns

Paramount Pictures has filed a $100 million breach of contract lawsuit against its insurance company, Chubb, in California federal court for not living up to the terms of the coverage that was designed to protect the studio during the production of Mission: Impossible 7. The lawsuit against Chubb and its parent company, Federal Insurance Company,…

Blumhouse and David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist and Halloween Sequel Trilogies are Revamping Universal Picture’s Horror Slate

Universal Pictures’ recent and upcoming slate of horror movies is being brought back from the dead with the help of the noteworthy collaboration between Blumhouse Productions and filmmaker David Gordon Green. With the success of their slasher follow-up, Halloween (2018), as well the recent announcement that the production company and writer-director reunite for an Exorcist…

Tom Cruise Speaks Out about Covid-19 Rant on Mission Impossible Set

As the film and entertainment industry continues to adapt to the social-distancing protocols of the COVID pandemic, new details are emerging about Tom Cruise’s profanity-laced rant on the European set of Mission Impossible: 7 last December. Media sources including the Los Angeles Times and the Empire Magazine reported this week that Cruise was having no regrets for the…