Last night, Tom Cruise and Monica Barbaro visited James Cordon on The Late Late Show to talk about the film and to show a clip of the film, which you can watch below!
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You can now join the waiting room and set a reminder to watch MTV News’ livestream of the red carpet of the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick on Wednesday!
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COLLIDER – Paramount Pictures will screen the film at their panel on April 28.
After several delays, Top Gun: Maverick is finally within reach of its release date. Paramount Pictures announced that the Tom Cruise-led sequel will screen at the studio’s CinemaCon panel on Thursday, April 28. This will be the world premiere for the film, though it is also set for a Cannes appearance prior to its May 27 release. This will bring the Top Gun sequel full circle, as the film screened the first 13 minutes of the film at last year’s event.CinemaCon runs from April 25 through April 28, and it is an event for studios to preview their upcoming releases for movie theaters. It is run by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), and it began in 2011. Top Gun: Maverick isn’t the only film screening at the event, as Universal and Blumhouse will be screening The Black Phone, which stars Ethan Hawke. Yet tons of reactions and pieces of news will surely follow the event, as Disney, Lionsgate, and others will be previewing their own respective release slates.
Top Gun: Maverick has been in various states of development since 2010. Filming began in 2018 and wrapped by the summer of 2019, with some test footage even screening for attendees at CineEurope in Barcelona in 2019. A July 2019 release was initially intended for the film, though additional time was needed to perfect the film’s effects and flight sequences. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic compounded on top of that, leading to its final date next month.
Aside from Cruise, the sequel will star Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Monica Barbaro, and Manny Jacinto. Val Kilmer will also reprise his iconic role as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. No other original characters are set to appear, though Miles Teller will play the son of Maverick’s right-hand man Goose (Anthony Edwards), who of course dies during the events of the first film.
Paramount has released the following synopsis for the highly-anticipated sequel:
“Test pilot Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise) has purposely dodged an advancement in rank after thirty years of service. One day Maverick is called to be put in charge of training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission under the orders of his fellow naval aviator friend and former rival, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Kilmer), who is the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Among them is Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Teller), the son of Maverick’s late best friend Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Edwards).”Top Gun: Maverick lands in theaters on May 27.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – The world’s most high-profile fest comes amid the film’s planned release around the globe at the end of May.
Top Gun: Maverick is taking a flight to the Cannes Film Festival.Paramount and Skydance high-profile sequel — starring Tom Cruise, one of the world’s biggest stars — will screen at the festival in advance of its Memorial Day premiere in theaters, according to sources close to the festival.
Top Gun 2 will open in North America on May 27, after beginning its international rollout earlier that week. Paramount declined to comment on any plans to show up on the Croisette, but buzz has been growing about the movie playing at Cannes.
This year, the iconic festival on the French Riviera runs May 17-28.
Cannes has long been a platform to launch a big Memorial Day tentoples (most play out of competition.) The fest gets Hollywood studios access to press from around the world, not to mention the benefit of high-profile stars walking the famous red carpet for photos.
This would mark the first time in 30 years a Cruise film has screened at Cannes, with the Ron Howard-directed Far and Away bowing at the fest in 1992. Cruise is considered one of Hollywood’s most relentless promoters, and never shies away from publicity. Cannes would be an obvious place for the actor to show off his new film. And Cruise’s appearance would be of benefit to the festival as it emerges from the pandemic.
Cannes, however, would not likely mark Top Gun: Maverick‘s world premiere. That event has long been planned to be held in San Diego, where the first film was set.
Cruise’s Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski directs Maverick, which also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer, returning as Iceman. The original Top Gun, directed by the late Tony Scott and released in 1986, helped turn Cruise into a household name around the world.
The Top Gun sequel has faced a long road to the screen and was delayed multiple times due to covid pressures on theatrical business. Maverick launched its first trailer at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, with Cruise surprising the crowd in person. More recently, the first 13 minutes of Maverick screened at CinemaCon in August 2021.
