It’s going to be a while before Tom Cruise fans can check out the daring actor’s next potential blockbusters.
Deadline has learned that Paramount is pushing Top Gun: Maverick to May 27, 2022 and Mission: Impossible 7 to Sept. 30, 2022. Top Gun: Maverick was supposed to release on November 19, 2021, a week before the Thanksgiving holiday, while Mission: Impossible 7 was supposed to release on the Memorial Day weekend date that Top Gun: Maverick now occupies.
Paramount made the decision to delay both Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7 due to the current conditions of COVID and its Delta variant. Experts seem to believe that theater attendance will return to some semblance of normalcy next year.
While Mission: Impossible 7 should be interesting thanks to the franchise’s tradition for death-defying stunts, Top Gun: Maverick seems to be getting a bit more hype due to the franchise’s decades-long absence. The 1983 classic was directed by Tony Scott, Ridley Scott’s brother, who died 2012. TRON: Legacy and Oblivion director
Joseph Kosinski is behind the new sequel that centers around a new team of younger pilots.
According to a recent interview with Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Cruise pushed for the return of Val Kilmer, who played fan-favorite Iceman in the original film. Kelly McGillis was not invited back as Maverick’s love interest, however. That emotional gap will seemingly be filled by Jennifer Connelly, who plays a new character named Penny Benjamin. Top Gun: Maverick will include veteran actor Ed Harris as a Rear Admiral serving as Maverick’s superior.
There was a rumor that Sony was moving Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its most recent Oct. 15 wedge between MGM/UAR’s No Time to Die on Oct. 8, and Warner Bros./HBO Max’s Dune on Oct. 22, to Top Gun: Maverick‘s pre-Thanksgiving spot. Alas, no, as the Culver City studio announced moments after Paramount’s news here that they were dating Ghostbusters: Afterlife on Nov. 19 following the pic’s rave reception at CinemaCon last week.
Source: Deadline
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Hmm… is this because of Covid 2.0, or some other reason?
I think I just heard the thud of AMC’s CEO’s head hitting his desk.
I thought Top Gun 2 already was released………..
These movie studios are fooling themselves if they believe theater attendance will get back to pre-2020 level in the near future, even if the China Virus boogeyman disappears.
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These movie studios are fooling themselves if they believe theater attendance will get back to pre-2020 level in the near future, even if the China Virus boogeyman disappears.
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Eh, I don’t know we would be at the Drive In two or three nights a month if the normal production schedule was going on.
I’m less and less interested in these as time passes. Eventually I’ll just forget about them. Not that I wanted to go to a theater anyway, I had not been for years before covid.
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These movie studios are fooling themselves if they believe theater attendance will get back to pre-2020 level in the near future
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That’s for d4mn sure.
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Not that I wanted to go to a theater anyway, I had not been for years before covid.
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Same. I just much prefer watching movies at home or friends’ houses. See my post here: [URL]https://forums.thefpsreview.com/threads/venom-let-there-be-carnage-is-being-delayed-to-2022-sources-claim.6566/post-40305[/URL]
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Same. I just much prefer watching movies at home or friends’ houses. See my post here: [URL]https://forums.thefpsreview.com/threads/venom-let-there-be-carnage-is-being-delayed-to-2022-sources-claim.6566/post-40305[/URL]
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I always thought people go to theaters because of fomo or dating and not because they actually like the experience.
Sorta interested in Top Gun… haven’t cared about MI for a long time.
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Sorta interested in Top Gun… haven’t cared about MI for a long time.
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I didn’t care much for Ghost Protocol at all, but the series got really good with Rogue Nation, in my opinion. I’ve enjoyed a lot of Christopher McQuarrie’s writing work. McQuarrie wrote and directed both M:I7 and Top Gun: Maverick, in addition to Rogue Nation.
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I always thought people go to theaters because of fomo or dating and not because they actually like the experience.
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Not far from the mark.
When I was a teenager it was almost exclusively dating. When I got older, but didn’t have my own home theater, it was for the big screen and “experience” – usually at the IMAX.
Now, especially with my OLED and new sound setup and the capacity to stream 4K — they may have a bigger screen at the theater but it isn’t better any longer. And I can drink whatever beer I want, eat whatever I want, not listen to the other teenagers spooning in the back, and pause to go to the bathroom.
I have no desire to ever go back to the theater
I’m very much interested in both, but I don’t think I’ll see them in the movie theater. Then again, 14yo kids are very persuasive, so time will tell…
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Then again, 14yo kids are very persuasive, so time will tell…
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You will be an empty nester by the time these hit the theaters at this pace.
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You will be an empty nester by the time these hit the theaters at this pace.
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For reals. And that is also a commentary on how fast they grow up. Can’t believe mine is in middle school already (well she is up a few grades since she is 9).
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You will be an empty nester by the time these hit the theaters at this pace.
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And Tom Cruise will be retired.
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And Tom Cruise will be retired.
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No Scientology will keep him around. Forever.
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Eh, I don’t know we would be at the Drive In two or three nights a month if the normal production schedule was going on.
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They closed our last drive-in roughly 3 decades ago. Meanwhile, I still meet people that were conceived there. 🙂
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No Scientology will keep him around. Forever.
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cue a South park follow up episode
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No Scientology will keep him around. Forever.
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That’s more like it. 😀 :p
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I didn’t care much for Ghost Protocol at all, but the series got really good with Rogue Nation, in my opinion. I’ve enjoyed a lot of Christopher McQuarrie’s writing work. McQuarrie wrote and directed both M:I7 and Top Gun: Maverick, in addition to Rogue Nation.
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The last one I saw was with the gecko gloves climbing the tower in Dubai or whatever. Don’t think I have seen one since.
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They closed our last drive-in roughly 3 decades ago. Meanwhile, I still meet people that were conceived there. 🙂
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There is actually a drive in about an hour from us (Ennis). It was near death before the pandemic, I think doing $1 movies. But since Covid, their biz has skyrocketed. I wonder if we will see a resurgence of drive ins… it would be nice to see one using modern projector technology.
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The last one I saw was with the gecko gloves climbing the tower in Dubai or whatever. Don’t think I have seen one since.
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That is Ghost Protocol, and I didn’t really like it all too much.