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Sometimes movie franchises can face an end due to problems with a star from the franchise. Media companies face a tough challenge of re-casting the role or moving on from the franchise. One massive movie star could be helping a media company move on from two different stars for two massive…

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Women weren't allowed to fly combat for the Navy until 7 years after the original Top Gun came out. Now Phoenix rules the sky in Top Gun: Maverick.

Val Kilmer’s lone scene in “Top Gun: Maverick” is strikingly powerful — not only because it successfully projects decades of close friendship between his character, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, and Tom Cruise’s, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, but because it also draws on the actor’s own experiences. The combination lays fertile ground for…

Film-makers get to borrow expensive bits of kit on the cheap, but the Pentagon uses movies as a propaganda machine

The sequel to 1986's high-flying hit is finally in theaters, and it's worth the wait.

In 1983, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was flipping through the May issue of California magazine when he was struck by a story. “Top Guns” read the headline, with a large photograph from inside the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The story opened: “At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California,…

After sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, “Top Gun: Maverick” is flying full throttle into theaters this week

The original film’s James Dean T-shirts and flying jackets harked back to a safer, more wholesome era. Three decades later, its sequel will try the same trick

‘[Kilmer] is an actor that I greatly admire, so it was wonderful,’ Cruise said

Both say they've been cut from films or franchises, but they're starting from different levels in their careers