Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Shoes Jennifer Connelly’s Biggest Tour Sarah wrote in the previous post re: the Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning trailer (and its bonkers punctuation, which spilled over into this sentence!) about why the culture in general has embraced Tom Cruise and not side-eying his freaking Scientology sh-t and she cited a number of reasons By Lainey • May 24, 2022 02:02 pm
Xenu Mission: Impossible – Punctuation Hell and Tom Cruise’s rehabilitation Over the weekend, a trailer for the next Mission: Impossible film leaked, so now the trailer has been released in all its official HD glory, even though this movie doesn’t come out for 13 months. (Presumably, they’re going to tack this onto Top Gun: Maverick this weekend, as By Sarah • May 24, 2022 01:01 pm
Royals Tom hosts Will and Kate In London last night, the UK premiere of Top Gun: Marverick. And, naturally, because this is a Tom Cruise movie and Tom Cruise is always extra AF, they went full throttle with the presentation. Leicester Square was a spectacle, a huge maze of digital screens was set up outside the By Lainey • May 20, 2022 09:58 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise in Cannes: Fist-pumps, standing ovations, and chivalry Sarah posted photos from the Top Gun gala spectacle in Cannes yesterday along with details from his Q&A before the premiere at the palais. I’m here to follow up on a few more details now that the movie has screened for the festival audience – to a five By Lainey • May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gunapalooza It is here, it is now, it is nigh—the Top Gun: Maverick premiere is happening at Cannes. And, I am shocked and upset to report, as of this writing, there is no Lady Gaga. I repeat, there is NO Lady Gaga. And I was SO looking forward to her By Sarah • May 18, 2022 02:37 pm
Royals The Queen at her Jubilee do Queen Elizabeth II is ninety-six years old and celebrating her seventieth year on the British throne with a platinum jubilee. She is the longest reigning monarch in British history, and the longest reigning queen regnant in history, period. To mark the occasion, she attended an event last night called By Sarah • May 16, 2022 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Cannes starts next week, the first full-fledged festival they’ve held since 2019. There will be business deals, there will be fashion, and celebrities being at it again, but mostly, there will be Top Gun. As previously announced, Top Gun: Maverick will have a premiere on the By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Strong Start Here are some shots of Tom Cruise a few days ago promoting Top Gun: Maverick in Mexico as part of the worldwide press tour. It’ll be a frenzy next week in Cannes when the movie screens at the festival and then it’s on to London for the Royal By Lainey • May 12, 2022 03:45 pm
Music Gaga in, 21 Pilots out We’re now a week away from the kickoff of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and one of the big screenings will be the highly anticipated world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise, obviously, will lead the cast and he is a big deal all by himself but By Lainey • May 11, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun Baby Oil Tom Cruise is Top Gun, no can argue with that. But Top Gun is what happens when Pete “Maverick” Mitchell goes to flight school with the “best of the best”. And you can’t prove you’re the best of the best on your own. You need a whole crew. By Lainey • May 05, 2022 01:11 pm
Top Reads Tom Cruise’s Premiere Chopper LOL FOREVER. And with affection. Because, come on, isn’t this what you want from Tom Cruise? Remember last year when James Corden told that story about Tom Cruise texting him because he’s always looking for places to land his helicopter?! Tom Cruise and his chopper have become inseparable By Lainey • May 05, 2022 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Cannes does. It was reported this week that Maverick: Legend of the Skies Top Gun: Maverick will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The Croisette? More like the CRUISETTE. Cannes is BIG, it is GLAMOR, it is By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:07 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you heard? Supposedly, Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be Tom Cruise’s last outings as super-spy Ethan Hunt. In a report about how COVID has caused the budgets of these films, filming consecutively, to balloon out of control, it is also mentioned that M:I By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 09:04 am
