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“Top Gun: Maverick” is the biggest global blockbuster of Tom Cruise’s already blockbustery career. Perhaps you’ve been compelled to rewatch the original “Top Gun” from 1986 — or, depending on your generation, watch it for the first time. But me? I went back to revisit another movie Cruise made with…

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) appears to have taken Johnny Depp off its persona non grata list, as the actor is prominently featured in a theme park light show in his iconic role of Capt. Jack Sparrow from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.

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…

The real National Treasure is the friends we made along the way.

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,…