Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

So when do you think Paramount will announce it is coming back to the premium auditoriums?

That's your department expertise. You should be in contact with Paramount Pictures as I suggested to you previously. Me I'm just in it @ the surface, where the money flies in not too unsuspected ways. I'm a normal guy, your regular next neighbor.

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

[LordoftheRings]

You've just said it very well. I'm sure Paramount and Tom are doing exactly what they're supposed to do, cashing in every single day week after week.
They have an eye open toward the future; no doubt.

[Farerb]

Originally Posted by kylor

That just seems plane wrong.

Now they're down at #3, maybe one day they'll remove themselves altogether.

[DR Herbert West]

Revvin' up your computer
Listen to her fan' roar
Plastic under tension
Beggin' you to type and go
Highway to the Nonsense Zone

[kylor]

Originally Posted by Farerb

Now they're down at #3, maybe one day they'll remove themselves altogether.

If Top Gun 3 happens and a thread is made you can bet they'll be back and in greater numbers.

[kylor]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Revvin' up your computer
Listen to her fan' roar
Plastic under tension
Beggin' you to type and go
Highway to the Nonsense Zone

You delete your posts and you rattle the cage
Too much nonsense drives other users insane
You broke their will
But what a thrill
Goodness gracious, great BluBalls of fire!

I laughed at Blu 'coz I thought it was funny
Blu came along and trolled others, a bit scummy.
I've changed my mind
This thread is fine
Goodness gracious, great BluBalls of fire!

[BluBonnet]

Tom Cruise met with the Red Arrows of the RAF over the weekend to talk aviation and Top Gun.

Reaching cruising altitude!

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

Originally Posted by kylor

If Top Gun 3 happens and a thread is made you can bet they'll be back and in greater numbers.

Blu if or when Top Gun 3 comes out:

200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way - YouTube

[kylor]

Originally Posted by StarWarsIsAwesome123

Blu if or when Top Gun 3 comes out:
200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way - YouTube

I can see Blu now aiming for that top spot on the thread.

[StarWarsIsAwesome123]

They would have claimed #1 in this thread a while ago if they hadn't deleted a few dozen posts. Basically admitting to trolling.

[LordoftheRings]

[BluBonnet]

Sony Boss Says Studio Deserves Some Credit for ‘Top: Gun Maverick’ Box Office: ‘Venom’ Paved the Way

By Zack Sharf
Tom Cruise’s “Top: Gun Maverick” is the box winner of the year so far, and it’s not even close. The long-awaited sequel has earned $617 million and counting at the domestic box office and $1.2 billion so far worldwide. Outside of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and its $1.9 billion gross, “Top: Gun Maverick” has been hailed by many in the press as reigniting the box office after the pandemic woes. But not so fast, say Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group co-presidents Sanford Panitch and Josh Greenstein. The duo recently told Vulture that Sony deserves some credit for “Top Gun: Maverick’s” box office dominance.

As Panitch and Greenstein see it, Sony Pictures was one of the first studios to bring audiences back to the theater in mass during the pandemic. The studio opened “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” in October 2021 to a $90 million debut ($10 million more than the original “Venom” opened to in non-pandemic times) and a $506 million total worldwide (far below the original “Venom,” but a strong pandemic success nonetheless). Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” followed in November with $204.4 million worldwide, and then “Spider-Man: No Way Home” earned $1.9 billion globally to become the third-highest-grossing film in history, unadjusted for inflation

“When we first started releasing movies last October, there were really no other big movies,” Greenstein said. “Everyone had pushed their big movies to this year, to this summer. We took a big gamble putting ‘Venom’ in theaters. Then we doubled down with ‘Ghostbusters.’ Then our biggest bet was when every other tentpole had fled, we tripled down with ‘Spider-Man’ — our biggest, most important piece of IP.”

Sony had a fourth win earlier this year with the February launch of “Uncharted,” the video game adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland. The adventure tentpole earned $401 million worldwide. Panitch and Greenstein said all of Sony’s box office wins, starting with “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” paved the way for “Top Gun: Maverick” to blast off.

“There’s so much press about ‘Top Gun’ right now. It’s like, ‘The movie business is back!'” Panitch said. “In a weird way, I would say ‘Top Gun’ is benefitting from us taking our shot. ‘Venom’ is the start of that story that allows ‘Top Gun’ to do the kind of business it did. These things don’t happen overnight. It’s a seeding.”

Next up for Sony is “Bullet Train,” from “Deadpool 2” and “Atomic Blonde” filmmaker David Leitch. The pic, starring Brad Pritt, is the only major studio action tentpole on the calendar for August. “Bullet Train” takes off Aug. 5

[LordoftheRings]

Last weekend (July 15-17) = $12,268,764 (domestic)

Just keeps adding up, non-stop
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* Sony is full of it. Top Gun: Maverick is doing good because of Penton-Man.

[wonderer99]

Audiences are using their wallets to say thank you for whoever broke the CG machine. I'm not a hater of the Marvel/Disney effects machine but damn, this was a breath of practical fresh air. And so say all of us.

[levcore]

The movie is still full of CG though, it's just implemented very well.

[BluBonnet]

Well, it was audiences who also delivered us into the CG smorgasbord that we have today, but there's definitely nothing wrong with a little variety

Originally Posted by levcore

The movie is still full of CG though, it's just implemented very well.

That's right, when things look "realistic" people don't realize the CG is still there.

[bowlingbilly10]

Really wish they put this back in imax mid to late August would be perfect if they did since all they have is ET rerelease in imax after the 12th

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by bowlingbilly10

Really wish they put this back in imax mid to late August would be perfect if they did since all they have is ET rerelease in imax after the 12th

It would be nice if they split the showtimes for the IMAX screens, it would be a total 80s throwback.

[wonderer99]

Originally Posted by levcore

The movie is still full of CG though, it's just implemented very well.

Oh yeah the finale clearly ups the cg a bit but it's not a wall of fantasy effects and they are implemented nicely as you say. It still feels real world.

For me the film hardens back to the 80s in that thrilling sequences that feel real are much more visceral than overley cg creation that are excessive (think volcano sequence in Fallen Kingdom). A toned down action sequence that feels real is so much more thrilling than a clearly manipulated scene in which we know the actors are standing in front of green screen.

I would much rather they leave this as two films but if they HAVE to make another I hope they realise what made this sequel work so well.