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New York (CNN Business)"Top Gun: Maverick" has flown to new heights. The sequel to the 1986 blockbuster, in which Tom Cruise reprises the famed role of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, has crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, according to Paramount. "Maverick" is the first film in Cruise's more than 40-year career to reach the billion-dollar milestone — and it's also the second-highest-grossing film in Paramount's long history in terms of domestic figures, behind only 1997's "Titanic." What's more, "Maverick" notched its impressive box office figures in a sort of old-fashioned way: It scored a record opening over Memorial Day weekend and hasn't slowed much since. "It's rare to get the special kind of alchemy that creates a true event film, and we have been absolutely blo...

Stony Brook University’s Staller Center  for the Arts turns into a movie lover’s mecca when new independent films screen at the Stony Brook Film Festival on evenings and weekends from Thursday, July 21 to Saturday, July 30. The popular festival, now in its 27th year, pairs memorable short films with an array of features you won’t see anywhere else, making it a favorite of moviegoers and filmmakers alike. Presented by Island Federal, the 2022 Festival lineup offers 38 films from over 28 countries. The Festival kicks off with the North American premiere of Peaceful, starring Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, and Gabriel A. Sara. A life-affirming drama about acceptance and resilience, Peaceful follows Benjamin, an acting teacher with a terminal illness as he navigates his final months and...

Dakota Johnson is looking back on filming Fifty Shades of Grey, which she said was “mayhem” behind the scenes. In a Vanity Fair cover story, the actress opened up about starring in the $1.3 billion film trilogy, based on E.L. James’ bestselling books, as Anastasia Steele after being intrigued by director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s vision of a stripped-down version of the book. However, the script would eventually change, with James maintaining creative control. “I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making,” Johnson told Vanity Fair.Of James, Johnson said, “She had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, Hoka Shoes and she just demanded that certain things happen. There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inner monologue,...

After years of development, it seems that Anthony and Joe Russo’s apocalyptic alt-history sci-fi movie, The Electric State, is finally near the starting line and is poised to be their next directing project. The information comes from the brothers themselves, who talked to Collider's Steven Weintraub during a press event for another one of their upcoming movies, The Gray Man. During the interview, Joe Russo revealed that they “start shooting The Electric State in October in Atlanta.” Anthony Russo added that they are “working with Steve Madden Shoes some old friends” on the project, which, of course, could mean that they’ve selected Marvel A-listers to integrate the cast, or they could be referring to their TV roots – a time when they worked as directors on the set of acclaimed comedy s...

A new update on Taika Waititi's planned Star Wars movie makes it unlikely it will be ready for a 2023 release date. Following the premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, Lucasfilm put the Star Wars movies on hiatus as they focused more on live-action TV shows for Disney+. While working on series such as The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the studio is also developing new Star Wars films. One of these movies is set to be directed by Waititi, who previously helmed the Mandalorian season 1 finale for Lucasfilm. Waititi, a dynamic talent on both sides of the camera, is constantly keeping himself busy. His next directorial effort, Thor: Love and Thunder, releases in early July. He also has the newly-announced Our Flag Means Death season 2 coming up, plus sports film Hey Dudes ...

Shah Rukh Khan started off by taking the road rarely traveled- playing highly risky anti-hero figures, characters really far from our conventional ideas of hero and yet won our hearts with his freshness and vigor. And just when we thought we had a grip on our familiarity with him, he turned the tables like no one else, revamping himself as the ‘King of Romance’ and becoming the poster-boy of wholesome Bollywood entertainment for years to come, even playing a monumental role in the growing popularity of Hindi Cinema on a global level. As Shah Rukh Khan completes 30 glorious years in cinema, Firstpost attempts to make sense of his magic and contribution to our lives, through 30 scenes and moments from his films where we find Khan to be at his very best, and which we believe deserve far...