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Top Gun: Maverick becomes Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing box office debut as it passes $100m

Sequel to the Eighties action classic is Cruise’s first film to surpass $100m on opening weekend

The Independent UK

Top Gun in the Top End takes off over NT

Australia's best airforce aviators are set to soar in the skies above the Northern Territory for a local version of Top Gun, named Exercise Diamond Storm.

AAP

"Top Gun: Maverick" breaks Memorial Day weekend box office record

The film debuted 28% above Cruise's last big hit.

Axios

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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Wins Tom Cruise 1st $100 Million Opening

Forget breaking the sound barrier: Tom Cruise just flew past a major career milestone. The 59-year-old superstar just got his first $100 million opening weekend with "Top Gun: Maverick." In its first three days in North American theaters, the long-in-the-works sequel earned an estimated $124 million in ticket sales, Paramount…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Top Gun: Maverick' wins Tom Cruise 1st $100 million opening

Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel

Cinema’s favourite ageless fighter pilot returns with all the nail-biting aeronautics and emotional sucker punches that made the original an 80s-defining hit

The Guardian - UK

The lost meaning of "Top Gun"

No, it's not the much-vaunted theory about represssed homosexuality, but embracing a more nuanced masculinity

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What links Top Gun: Maverick to Dennis Rodman and The Outsiders?

The new Tom Cruise flyboy sequel is out, so follow it down the rabbit hole to ER, a Bull in Korea and Francis Ford Coppola

The Guardian - UK

From Top Gun: Maverick to Tracey Emin – a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you want a film to take your breath away or some oversized maquettes, our critics have your culture for the next seven days covered

The Guardian - UK

Monica Barbaro on Phoenix and her rise in Top Gun: Maverick

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.

USA Today Sports Media Group

LOOK. Ohio State marching band enjoys private screening of Top Gun: Maverick

Looks like #TBDBITL enjoyed its private screening of Top Gun: Maverick. #GoBucks

USA Today Sports Media Group

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

Harry and Meghan forced Kate Middleton to 'kickstart her star quality', say experts

According to royal experts, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's departure from the Royal Family now means that Prince William and Kate Middleton have stepped up their glitzy appearances and are a Prince and Princess of Wales in waiting

Daily Mirror

Mary McNamara: 'Top Gun' casts Tom Cruise as the hero in the film and at the box office

In the roll-up to "Top Gun: Maverick," people keep saying Tom Cruise is the last real movie star and I don't get it.

Los Angeles Times

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Reason

Review: Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight.

Inverse

'Top Gun: Maverick' review: A Danger Zone of absolute summer perfection

A sequel to the 1986 classic, 'Top Gun: Maverick' soars past its historic legacy with an almost perfect immersive thrill ride.

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #36: From Marvin Gaye to the Macarena, inside one man’s quest to review over 1,000 US No 1s

In this week’s newsletter: Why Stereogum’s Tom Breihan is listening back to every Billboard No 1 hit and grading them out of ten (yes, even The Chipmunk Song)

The Hindu

How to run a hotel at Cannes, and host celebrities?

The general manager of iconic Hotel Martinez, which played host to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Naomi Campbell, and many more, shows us. P.S.: He has a Chennai connection

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Los Angeles Times

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

Kenny Loggins rides into the ‘Danger Zone’ once more (and he can still hit those high notes)

Kenny Loggins had already established himself as a pop star — first as half of the rootsy Loggins & Messina, then as a yacht-rocking solo act — by the time he became the unofficial king of the movie soundtrack in the early 1980s. There was “I’m Alright,” from “Caddyshack.” There…

Financial Times

Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American power

The film reflects anxiety over the US’s relative decline in the face of China’s high-tech military might

Tribune News Service

'Top Gun: Maverick's' F-18 flights cost new Tom Cruise film $11,374 an hour

The U.S. Navy lent Tom Cruise F/A-18 Super Hornets for the new “Top Gun” movie. The only catches: The studio paid as much as $11,374 an hour to use the advanced fighter planes — and Cruise couldn’t touch the controls.

The Guardian - UK

Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

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

The Conversation

Top Gun: Maverick's age shouldn’t stop him as a test and fighter pilot, but his lifestyle might

When Rolls Royce Test Pilot Phil O’Dell (POD to his friends and colleagues) broke the world electric flight airspeed record last year, nobody remarked upon his being in his late 50s. At 51, no one challenged me about my age when I recently made the first flight of the British…

Evening Standard

Tom Cruise: Behind the (megawatt) smile

As Top Gun: Maverick garners some of Tom Cruise’s greatest reviews in decades, Samuel Fishwick paints a picture of the last truly unknowable movie star

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