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.
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Photos: ‘No Exit’ Screen Captures
Nearly 500 UltraHD screen captures from No Exit have just been added into the photo gallery. Be sure to catch this thriller on Hulu!
Photos: ‘No Exit’ Premiere
I’ve just added photos from tonight’s premiere of Hulu’s newest thriller No Exit into the photo gallery, along with a couple posters from the film as well. Be sure to watch it when it’s released on Friday!
‘Tales Of The Walking Dead’: Olivia Munn, Danny Ramirez Among Six Cast In ‘TWD’ Spinoff Anthology Series
DEADLINE – AMC has announced additional cast for Tales of the Walking Dead, its new spinoff series set in The Walking Dead universe. Olivia Munn (Violet), Danny Ramirez (The Falcon & The Winter Soldier), Loan Chabanol (Fading Gigolo), Embeth Davidtz (Old, Ray Donovan), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys) and Gage Munroe (Nobody) have been tapped to star in the AMC Studios-produced episodic anthology series.
Each of the six one-hour standalone episodes will focus on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series. It’s set to premiere this summer on AMC and AMC+.
The series will be executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, and showrunner Channing Powell, writer-producer on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead.
“Olivia, Danny, Loan, Embeth, Jessie and Gage are the latest massive talents that will bring new worlds of TWD to life with big, daring, different, emotional, shocking, scary, and crazy stories. We’re excited for them to come walk with us,” said Gimple.
Added Powell, “Somehow we have lucked into the greatest cast — Olivia, Jessie, Embeth, Danny, Loan, Gage… We’ve been hoping these episodes will feel like unique, little films and with this range of actors, we are well on our way.”
Munn most recently starred in indie drama Violet, written and directed by Justine Bateman. She also starred in Netflix romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat and crime thriller The Gateway. Known for her role as Sloan Sabbith on Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, her TV work also includes an arc on Fox’s New Girl and Showtime docuseries Years of Living Dangerously from James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub. She is repped by CAA and Atlas Artists.
Ramirez was most recently seen on television in the lead role of Joaquin Torres in The Falcon & The Winter Soldier. On the film side, he’ll next be seen in a starring role in Hulu suspense/thriller No Exit, produced by The Queens Gambit co-creator Scott Frank. He also stars opposite Tom Cruise in Paramount’s upcoming Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s Plus/Minus opposite Lili Reinhart. He also just completed filming The Stars at Noon for director Clair Denis opposite Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley. Ramirez is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.
Chabanol starred in John Turturro’s comedy, Fading Gigolo, alongside Woody Allen and Turturro. She also appeared in Third Person, a romantic drama written and directed by Paul Haggis, and can also be seen in The Transporter Refueled, produced by Luc Besson. She is repped by Buchwald.
Davidtz credits include Old, Ray Donovan, Mad Men, In Treatment, Californication, The Amazing Spiderman, Matilda and Schindler’s List. She is repped by CAA, Berwick & Kovacik and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.
Usher can currently be seen in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Amazon series The Boys. He’ll next be seen in Something’s Wrong with Rose for Paramount Players. He is repped by Zach Kaplan, Jessica DiBiase, Trey Cannon and Judith Usher.
Monroe recently wrapped a supporting role in the Netflix feature Luckiest Girl Alive opposite Mila Kunis. He can currently be seen in Universal’s Nobody opposite Bob Odenkirk. Munroe previously recurred in the Syfy series Dark Matter, Netflix’s Designated Survivor as well as Netflix’s Frontier. He is repped by Noble, Caplan, Abrams and Vault Entertainment.
