Tom Cruise is on a mission to save cinema again. Over a year has passed since Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise’s last movie, flew to a near $1.5 billion box office haul. Not only was Top Gun 2 one of the best movies of 2022, it also helped to reignite the theater-going experience in the wake of the pandemic.
Numerous movies have struggled to replicate Maverick’s success – Ant-Man 3, Indiana Jones 5, and The Flash, to name three – in 2023, so it falls to Cruise once more to entice audiences back to cinemas. With summer blockbuster season upon us – Barbie and Oppenheimer, two of our most anticipated new movies, are due out very soon – now’s a good time to coax viewers back to their local multiplex.
