Sunit Jangir

Sunit Jangir

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As a Senior Editor at Sacnilk, Sunit Jangir leads our coverage on Indian cinema, box office analytics, and global entertainment trends. Passionate about Cricket, Sunit Jangir is an avid sports lover. He finds inspiration in other people's life stories and try to absorb them. Though introvert by nature, he doesn't feel shy when the topic is cinema and sports, particularly cricket.

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'Ready To Re-shoot If Shah Rukh Khan Wants To Be In Ms. Marvel', Say Writer, Directors of Series
1513 days ago
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'Ready To Re-shoot If Shah Rukh Khan Wants To Be In Ms. Marvel', Say Writer, Directors of Series

Mumbai, June 4 - Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has millions of fans, not just in India but also in the international arena. In the field of entertainment, SRK's popularity is no hidden secret and it continues to grow. His ever-growing fan-following also includes those who don super-power on screen. ## Marvel Studios' upcoming series on Disney Plus, "Ms. Marvel's" producer and writer Sana Amanat and directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi (who helmed episodes 1 and 2) are huge Shah Rukh Khan fans. Even the series, which has Iman Vellani playing the title role of Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel has a Bollywood reference and Kamala's heart is set on Bollywood, especially, on the King, Shah Rukh Khan.## During a recent interview with ETimes, Sana Amanat with Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi spoke about SRK. It was recently revealed that Shah Rukh's name and his popular films like "Baazigar" and "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" get a special mention in the Marvel show. When asked if there is SRK's cameo in the series, Sana answered excitedly. ## "If Shah Rukh Khan wants to be in this show, we will go film again! We'll go back to production, we're (definitely) going back to production! Call somebody!". Adil added, "We would want to make a Bad Boys 3 remake with Shah Rukh Khan", to which Sana suggested, "This will be the perfect pitch". ## "He is one of the biggest stars in the world, a legend", Billal added.## Despite coming from different origins, the three (Sana, Bilall, and Adil) were united by their love for SRK. When asked what the actor meant to them, Sana said, "As a Pakistani kid in Jersey, I loved Bollywood actors growing up. So having that integrated into Kamala's world makes it more global and real. It's really awesome and we are very excited about it".## "Shah Rukh, if you want to work with us, we are down for it," Sana added. In the event that this piece could manage to catch Shah Rukh's attention, Bilall and Adil made sure to leave behind their fan mail saying, "Yeah! We're here man... We're big fans!".## "Ms. Marvel" is slated to premiere on June 8 on Disney+Hotstar. Apart from Imam, the series also stars Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Laith Nakli, Azhar Usman, Travina Springer, Nimra Bucha, and will also feature Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar in an important role.## Stay tuned...

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Marvel Studio Prepone 'Thor: Love and Thunder' Release In India
1514 days ago
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Marvel Studio Prepone 'Thor: Love and Thunder' Release In India

Mumbai, June 3 - Marvel Studios' big-ticket entertainer, "Thor: Love and Thunder", which was supposed to hit Indian theaters on July 8, will now be releasing a day earlier on July 7, Thursday. The reason for this sudden development is not known yet. ## Marvel India took to Twitter and announced the new release date with a poster. "Get ready for the ultimate 'THORSDAY'! 🤩 Marvel Studios' #ThorLoveAndThunder ❤️+⚡ arrives in cinemas in India a day before, on the 7th of JULY", read the caption. It will be released in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. ## Get ready for the ultimate 'THORSDAY'! 🤩Marvel Studios' #ThorLoveAndThunder ❤️+⚡ arrives in cinemas in India a day before, on the 7th of JULY. pic.twitter.com/59CnZnEpQr— Marvel India (@Marvel_India) June 3, 2022 ## Directed by Taika Waititi, "Thor: Love and Thunder" is intended to be the direct sequel to "Thor: Ragnarok" (2017) and the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Waititi, and Russell Crowe. Portman is making her comeback after missing out on two last Thor movies. ## In the film, which is set after the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor attempts to find inner peace but must return to action and recruit Valkyrie (Thompson), Korg (Waititi), and Jane Foster (Portman), who is now the Mighty Thor, to stop Gorr the God Butcher (Bale) from eliminating all gods.## Stay tuned...

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Top Gun: Maverick Passes Top Gun's Lifetime Domestic Box Office Collection
1515 days ago
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Top Gun: Maverick Passes Top Gun's Lifetime Domestic Box Office Collection

Los Angeles, June 2 - Skydance and Paramount Pictures' pandemic-delayed "Top Gun: Maverick" is on a 'marry me' run at the domestic (North America) box office. ## After scoring the biggest Memorial Day holiday weekend of all time with $160.5 million, the Tom Cruise-led actioner earned another $16 million on Tuesday, which is the biggest non-Marvel Tuesday in the month of May in North America. It helped the movie to reach $176.6 million in just 5 days. ## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, "Top Gun: Maverick" has surpassed its predecessor's lifetime domestic collection of $180 million, on Wednesday. Not only "Top Gun's" (1986) lifetime total, but the Wednesday collection of Top Gun 2 also takes it past "Mission: Impossible's" $181 million to become Tom Cruise's sixth-biggest domestic grosser of all time. ## "Top Gun: Maverick" is likely to become Cruise's biggest domestic grosser by the second Sunday. Currently, his "War of the Worlds" (2005) is the biggest grosser for him with $234 million in North America. At the worldwide box office, the latest blockbuster has scored over $320 million through Tuesday. ## The film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.## Stay tuned...

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Johnny Depp Wins Multimillion Lawsuit Against Ex-Wife Amber Heard
1515 days ago
Hollywood

Johnny Depp Wins Multimillion Lawsuit Against Ex-Wife Amber Heard

Virginia, June 2 - The "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor Johnny Depp has won a multimillion defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, by a Virginia jury. ## The Virginia jury found that Heard's 2018 article against Depp, published in The Washington Post, was defamatory and ordered her to pay a whopping $15 million to Depp. The actor was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, which was cut by Judge Penney Azcarate to Virginia's statutory cap of $350,000, according to The Hollywood Reporter.## Amber Heard had written an op-ed in The Washington Post in 2018 in which she called herself a domestic abuse survivor against Depp. The latter had sued Heard for $50 million after the article was published, in which she referred to herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse". Heard too had issued a counter-claim for $100 million over statements calling her allegations a "hoax" made by her ex-husband's attorney which was published in Mail Online stories in 2020.## While Heard lost on two of her three claims, she won on one claim that a statement from Depp's lawyer was defamatory, in which he said that Heard set up an "ambush, a hoax", referencing a visit from law enforcement to the couple's house allegedly initiated by Heard. She was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages but none in punitive damages, reports THR. ## After the verdict was out, Amber Heard took to social to issue her statement. "The disappointment I feel today is beyond words", she said. "I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband". ## On the other hand, Depp celebrated the verdict and said the decision "gave me my life back", in a statement shared on Instagram.## "From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome. Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me. I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that". ## Stay tuned...

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Tom Cruise Gives His First Reaction After Historic Opening Weekend of 'Top Gun: Maverick'
1516 days ago
Hollywood

Tom Cruise Gives His First Reaction After Historic Opening Weekend of 'Top Gun: Maverick'

Los Angeles, June 1 - Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick waited for more than two years to release in theaters and once it was released, the audience made sure it become a memorable outing on the big screen as well as at the box office. ## Over the opening weekend, Top Gun 2 not only became the number 1 movie at the worldwide box office but also set a new record for Memorial Day weekend at the domestic box office, and also the biggest opening ever for Tom Cruise. The movie grossed a whopping $160.5 million over the 4-day weekend with coveted A+ CinemaScore. Worldwide, it has crossed $300 million in just 6 days, after approx, $140 million internationally. ## Overwhelmed with the historic opening of the movie, Tom Cruise gave his first reaction to the film's box office start via social media. He took to Twitter and thanked the audience for watching the movie in cinemas and making it a historic opening weekend. ## Thank you to everyone who saw #TopGun: Maverick and helped make it a historic opening weekend.— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 31, 2022 ## The opening weekend box office numbers of this 1986 movie's sequel aren't surprising, considering high critical acclaim. The movie has a near-perfect critic and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes with 97% and 99% respectively. It is currently the joint top-rated movie for Tom Cruise. ## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.## Stay tuned...

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Top Gun: Maverick Takes Flight With A Career-Best Domestic And International Opening of Tom Cruise
1518 days ago
Hollywood

Top Gun: Maverick Takes Flight With A Career-Best Domestic And International Opening of Tom Cruise

Mumbai, May 30 - Tom Cruise has outdone himself, and that too with a long long margin. The Paramount/Skydance's actioner, Top Gun: Maverick, took off with a massive $252.70 million worldwide through Sunday. This is the biggest ever global opening of Tom Cruise's career on a like-for-like basis. ## At the domestic (North America) box office, the sequel to 1986's pic opened to the Cruise's career-best $126.7 million (Fri-Sun) also including $19.3 Thursday previews. The 4-day Memorial Day weekend reached $160 million. The opening of Top Gun 2 is almost double the War of the Worlds ($65M), which was the biggest opening for Cruise. ## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie opened in 62 international markets on the opening weekend and grossed a spectacular $126 million, which is the biggest ever for Cruise, surpassing Mission: Impossible: Fallout by 28 percent, as per Deadline. Among the international markets, it scored the biggest opening ever in 32 markets for the actor. ## The Top 10 overseas markets of Top Gun 2 are as follows, through Sunday - 1. the UK $19.4M, 2. France $11.7M, 3. Australia $10.7M, 4. Japan $9.7M, 5. Germany $6.5M, 6. Brazil $5.3M, 7. Mexico $4.6M, 8. Italy $4M, 9. Hong Kong $2.9M, and 10. Taiwan $2.7M. At the Indian box office, the movie witnessed an upward trend over the weekend and scored $2 million in the opening weekend. ## The film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: Top Gun 2 Scores The Biggest Opening Day of Tom Cruise's Career
1519 days ago
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Box Office: Top Gun 2 Scores The Biggest Opening Day of Tom Cruise's Career

Los Angeles, May 28 - Superheros are not the only North American box office rulers and they have finally competition in the form of Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick. The high-octane actioner set the tone for a massive opening weekend with a superstrong $19.3 million in Thursday previews.## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the sequel to Cruise's 1986's Top Gun, couldn't have bought more joy than taking the flight on the biggest opening day ever of the actor's career. Top Gun 2 grossed an earth-shattering $51.8 million on Friday, including $19.3 million in previews from record number of theaters in North America. ## The Paramount and Skydance pic is on track to score the best Memorial Day openings of all time with a projected three-day domestic haul of $123 million and $150 million for the four days, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the current record holder with $139 million. ## The opening day collection of Top Gun 2 is almost 80% of Tom Cruise's biggest opening weekend grosser War of the Worlds, which is the biggest opening ever for him with $65 million in 2005. Top Gun 2 will become Cruise's biggest opening weekend grosser. The cinemagoers have bestowed the film with a coveted A+ CinemaScore. ## Internationally, Top Gun 2 collected $24.5 million on Friday, pushing the total international cume to $64.7 million. The U.K. led with $4 million to mark the highest opening day for a Cruise film and also for a live-action Paramount release. Japan followed with $2.6 million. Meanwhile, the movie has had a lukewarm response in India as compared to the previous Hollywood movies as its collection approx. $1.3 million through Saturday. ## The film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.## Stay tuned...

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Top Gun: Maverick Is The Joint Best-Reviewed Movie Of Tom Cruise's Career
1520 days ago
Hollywood

Top Gun: Maverick Is The Joint Best-Reviewed Movie Of Tom Cruise's Career

Los Angeles, May 28 - Tom Cruise's pandemic delayed actioner, Top Gun: Maverick took flight with an excellent $19.3 million in domestic (North America) Thursday previews, which is the highest-ever for Paramount Pictures and for the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. ## The film, touted as one of the finest sequels ever made in Hollywood, is one of the best-reviewed Hollywood movies and the joint best of Tom Cruise's prolific 5-decade long career. The movie presently sports a stunning 97% on Rotten Tomatoes from 306 reviews, the same score as Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018).## The Paramount and Skydance pic is way ahead of its preceder in terms of critics' reviews. While Top Gun (1986) was a huge box office success, it gained, however, only a 58% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 71 reviews. Cruise's lowest score on Rotten Tomatoes is 1988's Cocktail, 7 percent from 44 reviews.## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun 2 will become Cruise's biggest opener ever and very much on its way to top $100 million in its 4-day Memorial Day weekend at the domestic box office. Worldwide, the movie is tracking to take over $200 million in the opening weekend. ## Stay tuned...

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Jon Watts Reveals Title Of His Star Wars Series On Disney Plus To Be Headlined By Jude Law
1521 days ago
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Jon Watts Reveals Title Of His Star Wars Series On Disney Plus To Be Headlined By Jude Law

Los Angeles, May 27 - Jon Watts, the director of Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy, has boarded actor Jude Law to headline his upcoming Star Wars series, titled Skeleton Crew. ## The news was revealed on May 26 amidst a plethora of Jedi and Rebel Alliance info dropped at the 2022 Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim. There had been speculations for weeks that Law would be in the series, and now he has officially been confirmed by LucasFilm. ## Taking place in the same timeline as The Mandalorian, and Book Of Boba Fett, Jon Watts reveals that Skeleton Crew is about "a group of kids who are about ten years old who gets lost in the Star Wars universe. It stars four kids but it's not a kids show".## Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni will executive produce Skeleton Crew. There are not much details revealed about the series but according to the Star Wars Celebration announcement, Skeleton Crew will start filming soon and will hit Disney+ next year. ## Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, an Original series starring Jude Law, from executive producers Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, is streaming in 2023 only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/cEP3uXO4Aw— Star Wars (@starwars) May 26, 2022 ## Stay tuned...

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Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Creates All-Time Record Ahead Of Its Big Release
1521 days ago
Hollywood

Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Creates All-Time Record Ahead Of Its Big Release

Los Angeles, May 27 - It has been a long wait for the sequel to Tom Cruise's Top Gun and it finally hits theaters after 36 years with flying colors in the form of Top Gun: Maverick. Touted as one of the finest sequels ever made in Hollywood history, Top Gun 2 is in the race for all-time records at the box office. ## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick, is all set to take the biggest opening ever of Cruise's career and it has begun with extraordinary advance sales. According to the ticketing website Fandango, the movie created an all-time record for Crusie by selling more tickets on the platform prior to release than any other film throughout Cruise's entire career. ## Fandango didn't reveal the numbers but it announced that the movie is indeed now the biggest pre-sales record-holder. Cruise's previous biggest pre-seller was Mission Impossible: Fallout. Not only on the ticket window, but Top Gun 2 is also the joint best-reviewed film of Cruise on Rotten Tomatoes and has the best ever audience score. ## Oh, but there's more! Currently, #TopGunMaverick is tied w/ M:I FALLOUT as being the best-reviewed film of Cruise's career on @RottenTomatoes. Both are at 97%. And the current audience score of 99% is the best of Cruise's entire career, too. So, in conclusion - GO SEE THIS MOVIE! pic.twitter.com/D9nVkplMQh— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) May 26, 2022 ## According to a Hollywood trade analyst, Top Gun 2 is tracking to earn between $100M - $125M in the 4-day opening weekend at the domestic (North America) box office and about $180 million worldwide. It is by far the biggest ever start in Cruise's career. It has also created the record of the widest ever release in the Hollywood history, by crossing Lion King## The film stars Tom Cruise as test pilot Maverick, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film. "Top Gun: Maverick" is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.## Stay tuned...

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'Sonic 2' Set To Beat Marvel Studios' 'Black Widow' At The Box Office
1522 days ago
Hollywood

'Sonic 2' Set To Beat Marvel Studios' 'Black Widow' At The Box Office

Los Angeles, May 26 - Paramount Pictures' action-adventure comedy film, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is all set to beat Marvel biggie Black Widow at the domestic (North America) as well as the overseas box office. Based on the video game franchise published by Sega, Sonic 2 is putting strong legs at the North American box office despite it having started streaming on Paramount Plus. ## Directed by Jeff Fowler, the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) grossed $380K on its 7th domestic Tuesday, which helped the movie to reach $182 million. As per the Hollywood industry trackers, the film will beat Marvel Studios, Black Widow's lifetime domestic total of $183.6 million by Saturday to become the 6th biggest Hollywood movie in North America during the covid-19 pandemic. ## Sonic 2 was released in theaters on April 8 and scored the biggest opening weekend for a video game movie at the domestic box office by grossing a massive $72 million. At the worldwide box office, the movie so far has grossed approx, $376 million. It will also beat the lifetime worldwide total of Black Widow, which had grossed $379.7 million in July last year. ## It has also become the highest-grossing video movie in USA history, after it overtook its predecessor on Saturday (April 30). Sonic the Hedgehog, which was released in 2020, had grossed $146 million in its lifetime run but it garnered praise which paved the way for its successor to go big at the box office.## Paramount Pictures guarantees its movies at least 45 days exclusively in theaters before making them available to stream on Paramount Plus. In the case of Sonic 2, the movie followed an exactly 45-day timeline before becoming available to stream on its 46th day. ## Sonic 2 stars Ben Schwartz reprising his role as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, alongside James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Lee Majdoub, Idris Elba, and Jim Carrey. The film follows Sonic and Tails, who team up to find Master Emerald before Dr. Robotnik and Knuckles the Echidna do, while also contending with the military organization G.U.N. Stay tuned...

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Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Set For The Widest Ever Release In The Hollywood History
1523 days ago
Hollywood

Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Set For The Widest Ever Release In The Hollywood History

Los Angeles, May 25 - Hollywood's biggest action star, Tom Cruise's big-screen return Top Gun: Maverick is getting bigger and better with each passing day. The movie recently opened at the Cannes Film Festival where it got 5 minutes standing ovation as it has been touted as one of the finest sequels ever made in Hollywood. ## While the blockbuster reviews are pouring in for this much-awaited movie, it is set to get the widest ever release in Hollywood history. According to the Hollywood trade expert and the founder of Box Office Guru, Gitesh Pandya, the high octane actioner is looking to open in 4735 theaters in North America, edging out the record 4725 theaters of 2019's Lion King. ## Official North American theater count for the opening wknd of #TopGunMaverick is 4,735. Breaks the all-time Hollywood record for widest release ever! #TopGun #TomCruise #boxoffice— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) May 26, 2022 ## The release of the long-awaited sequel to the iconic 1986 movie is poised to be a defining moment for the box office recovery in Hollywood, which is so far driven by the superhero movies since the covid-19 pandemic broke out the early in 2020. ## Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun 2 is easily on its way to the biggest opening ever of Tom Cruise's career at the domestic (North American) box office, with a four-day gross of at least $92 million, according to official tracking (via THR). There is a high possibility that the opening weekend numbers could soar well north of $100 million domestically. ## For the record, 2005's War of the Worlds is Tom Cruise's top domestic opening with a three-day gross of $65 million, followed by 2018's Mission: Impossible: Fallout at $61 million, as per THR. Top Gun 2 is looking far ahead and will comfortably set new records for Cruise's movies. ## The film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012. ## Stay tuned...

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