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…
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set July 12, 2019, as the release date for Top Gun 2, the long-gestating sequel to the 1986 hit. Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has been set to helm the film, re-teaming him with Tom Cruise, whom he directed in the sci-fi pic Oblivion. Cruise reprises his role as Maverick, now a…
Tom Cruise used a London junket interview for The Mummy to tease – and reveal the name of – his upcomingTop Gun sequel, which won’t be called Top Gun 2. “I didn’t want a number, you know what I mean?” Cruise said after revealing the title. It’s Top Gun: Maverick, named after his character.
And still no word on…
The Pentagon will assist film and TV productions by granting access to military bases and hardware if the projects paint the military in a positive light. Or as Kenneth Hawes, head of the Army's film liaison office, admitted at the closing panel of the PGA's 8th annual Produced By Conference: "We're trying to sell the…
The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has said it will mount a monthlong film festival in honor of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, paying tribute to his impact on film and television. The festival, Take My Breath Away: A Jerry Bruckheimer Film Festival, launches April 1 at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood…
Top Gun 2 is still aiming for lift off, said Jerry Bruckheimer today. "For 30 years we've been trying to make a sequel and we're not going to stop. We still want to do it with Tom [Cruise] and Paramount are still interested in making it," the producer said Sunday at the Produced Byconference. "What Tom tells me is…
SATURDAY 11:45 PM, 7TH UPDATE: Well, Winter Storm Nemo raged over the Northeast Friday but box office stayed really solid. Despite movie theaters closed by nightfall and venues with lost power. Even though Northeast governors shut down all road traffic and imposed fines and even jailtime. That could have been terrible…
Top Gun will return to theaters for an exclusive six-day IMAX engagement beginning February 8 that will see the iconic 1986 Tom Cruise pic remastered in 3D for the large-screen format. The late director Tony Scott supervised the conversion from high-resolution original negative scans that will also result in the…
It is doubly sad and ironic that action movie maestro Tony Scott would apparently choose to end his life by jumping from a bridge. This is the kind of scene you would more likely see because he was calling the shots from behind the camera – not the stuff of his life. The industry is going to have a very hard time…
3D Conversion Of Paramount’s ‘Top Gun’ In The Works
Another blockbuster is getting the 3D conversion treatment, it seems. Top Gun, Tony Scott’s iconic 1986 film starring Tom Cruise, is being re-formatted for a possible 2012 release by Paramount. That was the word from Legend3D CEO Rob Hummel, speaking today at the…
EXCLUSIVE: Last week, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported that Ridley Scott is planning another Blade Runnerfilm, while brother Tony Scottplots to do a remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western classic The Wild Bunch. These are just a couple of many film projects the indefatigable pair are involved in after careers…
