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Top Gun: Maverick on track to make $1bn at the box office

Tom Cruise sequel is only the third Hollywood film to surpass $900 since the pandemic began

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Val Kilmer shares moving message following cameo alongside Tom Cruise in sequel

‘36 years later… I’m still your wingman,’ commented Kilmer

The Independent UK

Val Kilmer explains his 'Top Gun: Maverick' return and 'authentic friendship' with Tom Cruise

The Iceman cometh again, this time as a friend. And as Val Kilmer tells The Times, "I can't believe how kind the whole world has been. ... It's very humbling."

Los Angeles Times

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Spotify To Scoop Company Behind Val Kilmer's Voice In Tom Cruise Blockbuster

Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) agreed to acquire Sonantic. Sonantic is a dynamic AI voice platform that creates compelling, nuanced, and stunningly realistic voices from the text. The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. Sonantic technology helped bring Val Kilmer’s voice to life in Tom Cruise’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, the TechCrunch reports. Kilmer was…

Benzinga

‘The Cruise mythology’: Why Top Gun’s star is ‘action fit’ compared to original co-stars

Why Top Gun mega star Tom Cruise looks action fit compared to his original co-stars, and why only one was invited to return for the blockbuster sequel.

The New Daily

I'd never seen 1986's 'Top Gun,' so I watched it with the biggest Tom Cruise fan I know

SEATTLE — Here's a problem I had when I was prepping to review the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie: I'd never seen the original one.

Tribune News Service

Val Kilmer left 'very moved' after 'speaking' to Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick

Val Kilmer, playing Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky, made a cameo in the much-anticipated sequel - released 36 years after the original film - despite losing his voice to throat cancer in 2015

Daily Mirror

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Val Kilmer's daughter Mercedes admits she's never seen dad's classic movie Top Gun

Actress Mercedes Kilmer says the movie classic Top Gun in which her dad made his name as 'Iceman' isn't her cup of tea and she has never even watched it

Daily Mirror

Why Val Kilmer’s brief cameo is the most powerful moment 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…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight.

Reason

17 ‘Top Gun’ callbacks to watch for in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

If you feel the need — the need for nostalgic callbacks galore — worry not. “Top Gun: Maverick” has you covered.

Los Angeles Times

Film Review: Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick shows there's life in the old dogfight yet

Why change what was obviously a winning formula?

Belfast Live

You need to watch Tom Cruise’s most iconic thriller before it leaves Netflix next week

It’s infamous. It’s ridiculous. It’s awesome.

Inverse

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ follows the original movie’s flight pattern, and that’s how we want it

Even as you see all the plot twists coming, Tom Cruise’s charms and the spectacular aerial action still take your breath away.

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The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Tom Cruise opens up about his ‘very special’ reunion with Val Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick

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

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

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Daily Record

Heartbreaking reason Top Gun's Val Kilmer only has brief role in new movie

The 62-year-old actor lost his voice as a result of life-saving surgery for throat cancer, but will still reprise his role in a sequel to the hugely popular movie.

Tribune News Service

'Top Gun: Maverick' is awesome. Here's your guide to the summer sequel

Believe the hype. "Top Gun: Maverick" rules.

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Guardian - UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise is still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll sequel

Cruise presides over some surprising differences from his first outing as the navy pilot hotshot in a film that’s missing the homoerotic tensions of the 80s original

Daily Mirror

Tom Cruise stuns crowds with ageless appearance and helicopter at Top Gun premiere

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick more than 30 years since the release of the first film, in which he starred alongside Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis

Evening Standard

Top Gun: Maverick: When will it be released in the UK and US, cast, running time and what is it about?

It has been almost four decades since the release of Top Gun, but the wait for the sequel is finally coming to an end.

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