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Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Brad Pitt breaks silence on divorce from Angelina Jolie post long legal battle: ‘My personal life is always in the news'
Hollywood star Brad Pitt appears ready to embrace a new chapter in his life. He is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film F1, and recently settled his divorce with Angelina Jolie after a long legal battle. The actor opened up about the 'annoyance' of having his personal life being in the news in a new interview with GQ, while talking about the end of his marriage for the first time. (Also read: F1 trailer: Brad Pitt returns for a second chance in Top Gun Maverick director's next, fans are hooked. Watch) During the interview, Brad said, "My personal life is always in the news. It's been in the news for 30 years, bro. Or some version of my personal life, let's put it that way. It's been an annoyance I've had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do. So, it's always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time, if you let it be that, I don't know. I don't know. Mostly I feel pretty…. My life is fairly contained. It feels pretty warm and secure with my friends, with my loves, with my fam, with my knowledge of who I am, that, you know, it's like this fly buzzing around a little bit.' When asked whether the settlement of his divorce came as a relief to him, the actor added, 'No, I don't think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally.' Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie first met and fell in love on the set of their 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They married in 2014 at their French estate, Château Miraval. However, their marriage ultimately ended in divorce. Brad's upcoming film F1- The Movie is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who helmed Top Gun: Maverick. The film releases only in Cinemas & IMAX on June 27 in English, Hindi, Tamil & Telugu.
Geek Culture
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
Christopher McQuarrie Says 'Top Gun 3' Plot Is 'Already In The Bag'
Top Gun 3 has reportedly made some headway, with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie revealing that he has already nailed down the storyline for the sequel. McQuarrie, who helmed the recent blockbuster Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning , alongside writing and co-producing 2022's Top Gun: Maverick , spoke on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he explained that coming up with the plot for the sequel was easier than expected. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) When asked if Top Gun 3's story was 'harder to crack' than its predecessor, McQuarrie revealed that it was 'already in the bag,' adding that he already knows what the story is. 'It wasn't hard,' he explained, 'I thought it would be, and that's a good place to go from as you walk into the room going, 'Come on, what are we going to do?' And Ehren Kruger pitched something and I went, 'Mhm actually,' and we had one conversation about it and the framework is there. So, no, it's not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is, none of these are hard to crack.' 'It's as you start to execute it, and as you start to interrogate it, as you start [to think] why these movies are made the way they are,' he added, 'It's not the action, it's not even the level of or intensity of or the scope and scale of the action [or] the engineering around the action, it's none of those things — it's the emotion.' Top Gun (1986) When asked if he would step into a director role for the sequel, taking over from Top Gun: Maverick helmer Joseph Kosinski, McQuarrie replied that he had given the prospect 'absolutely no thought whatsoever', although he did admit to doing a lot of research on Tony Scott's movies, the late film director who helmed the original 1986 movie Top Gun . This isn't the first time the Top Gun threequel has been teased by those working on the project either, as franchise icon Tom Cruise, who played Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in both films, previously said that he was actively working on not only Top Gun 3, but a potential sequel to 1990's Days of Thunder too. 'Yeah, we're thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what's possible,' Cruise said during an interview with the Today Show Australia, 'It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick , so all of these things we're working on, we're discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick .' Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Christopher McQuarrie Top Gun top gun 3 top gun maverick
Pink Villa
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Lilo & Stitch Worldwide Box Office: Disney's live-actioner aims to put phenomenal USD 341 million over Memorial Day Weekend
Disney's latest outing, Lilo & Stitch, is wreaking havoc at the box office. The live action sci-fi comedy drama is based on 2002 released animated movie of the same name. It is projected to storm over USD 341 million at the worldwide box office over the Memorial Day Weekend of 4 days. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the live action movie has raked over USD 145.50 million in its first three days at the US box office, recording the biggest Memorial Day opener. It broke the first 3 days cume of Top Gun Maverick and Pirates Of The Caribbean At World's End. The movie is projected to add around USD 38 million on its first Monday, wrapping the holiday weekend at a record figure of USD 183.50 million in the domestic markets. The movie recorded the second biggest opener of 2025, remaining only behind A Minecraft Movie which had scored around USD 162.8 million in the US. Among all the Disney PG film post-covid, Lilo & Stitch has beaten the 3-day earnings of Moana 2 (USD 139.8 million) and remained under Inside Out 2's USD 154.2 million. For the unversed, Maia Kealoha stars in her feature film debut as Lilo Pelekai, bringing youthful energy to the film. The original animated film's creator, Chris Sanders, returns to voice Stitch, adding a nostalgic element to the flick. The supporting cast includes Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, Hannah Waddingham, Billy Magnussen, Zach Galifianakis, and Courtney B. Vance, alongside returning original cast members Tia Carrere, Amy Hill, and Jason Scott Lee. Lilo & Stitch in cinemas Lilo & Stitch is playing in cinemas near you. You can book your tickets from the online web portals or grab them from the counter itself. Have you watched the movie yet?
New York Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves the Movies
Tom Cruise's characters are defined by their enthusiasms. Jerry Maguire boosts his clients. Daniel Kaffee wants the truth, whether or not he can handle it. Maverick feels a need — a need for speed. In real life, Cruise, 62, has enthusiastically cast himself as the great champion of cinema. You can almost hear the deep-voice narration over the trailer: In a time when movies are endangered after a pandemic and the streaming age, one man stands up for old-fashioned filmmaking — with stark stories and real stunts intended for the Cineplex. In 2020, during the first Covid summer, Cruise posted video to social media of going to Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' ('Big Movie. Big Screen. Loved it'). An introduction ran before screenings of 'Top Gun: Maverick' in the spring of 2022 in which Cruise thanked audiences for 'seeing it on the big screen.' As Cruise put it in another short video: 'I love my popcorn. Movies. Popcorn.' As he invariably does in his movies, Cruise has succeeded. 'You saved Hollywood's ass!' Steven Spielberg told him a pre-Oscars lunch after 'Top Gun: Maverick' grossed $1.5 billion, Variety reported. The turnout proved people would still go to the movies en masse. As his latest blockbuster, 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,' hits theaters Friday, it is clear that Cruise's persona has stuck. His press tour has featured his own paeans to moviemaking and fans' appreciation for his commitment to doing his own stunts and even how he eats popcorn. Cruise's career appeared somewhat endangered 20 years ago. He was becoming notorious for his devotion to the Church of Scientology, which defectors have accused of institutionalized abuse. He jumped on Oprah Winfrey's couch. He sparred with Matt Lauer, calling psychiatry 'a pseudoscience.' But two decades later, Cruise, who declined to comment, remains arguably the world's biggest movie star, in no small part because he became the most affectionate version of The Onion's parody of him: A guy who really, really digs movies. 'He loves movies. He just also makes them,' said Joe Quenqua, a media strategist and former Disney executive. 'If there was a moment when Tom Cruise was a different version of Tom Cruise, we're not talking about it now. It's a blip.' The Cruise persona works because it seems genuine. The appeal of his famous stunts — scaling the world's tallest building, riding a motorcycle off a cliff, hanging off a biplane thousands of feet in the air (as in the new movie) — is precisely that it is he, Tom Cruise, who is performing them. Cruise is relentlessly on message. In London this month, he waxed eloquent about the importance for movie actors 'to understand what the lens is.' He once made a P.S.A. urging consumers to turn off motion-smoothing on their televisions, because motion-smoothing 'makes most movies look like they were shot on high-speed video rather than film.' 'There's other people who love the deal or this or that,' Doug Liman, the director of Cruise films 'Edge of Tomorrow' and 'American Made,' said in an interview. 'Tom loves movies — he loves going to the movies, making movies, talking about movies. It's kind of extraordinary.' The first 20 years of Cruise's career saw him taking risky roles with prestigious directors like Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Stanley Kubrick and Paul Thomas Anderson. It was Cruise who selected Brian De Palma — your favorite director's favorite director — to direct the first 'Mission: Impossible' film. In 2011, the fourth 'Mission' movie arrived, its central set-piece a spectacular, self-performed stunt (scaling Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower). It set the template for the next four, all of which have been directed by Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, and for the subsequent phase of Cruise's career, which has consisted almost entirely of action roles. When Cruise has a scandal now, it does not undermine his persona, it reinforces it. In 2020, the Sun newspaper published leaked audio of Cruise berating crew on the set of the seventh 'Mission' for violating Covid-era protocols by standing too close together, threatening a set shutdown. 'If I see you do it again, you're gone,' Cruise yelled, with an expletive. Later asked for comment, Cruise replied: 'I said what I said.' Cruise's movie-loving persona also jibes with the difficult, but not impossible mission of getting his latest movie, with a budget reportedly approaching $400 million, into profitability. Two years ago, 'Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning' was boxed out of premium-priced IMAX theaters after a week by Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer.' The new 'Mission,' Cruise's ostensibly final turn as Ethan Hunt, received a three-week window after Cruise made a personal case and pledged to use IMAX cameras and premiere in IMAX. 'We almost never give three weeks,' Rich Gelfond, IMAX's chief executive, said in an interview. Meanwhile, Cruise's social media co-sign has become an unofficial mark of a blockbuster. Among the films to get Cruise's stamp of approval are 'Oppenheimer,' 'Barbie,' 'Twisters' and, weeks ago, 'Sinners.' Gelfond texted Cruise to thank him for supporting 'Sinners,' which was filmed with IMAX cameras. According to Gelfond, Cruise responded quickly: 'He said, 'When one movie wins, we all win.''
Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
I'd love to be Tom Cruise, but sadly I don't have balls of steel
Would I want to be Tom Cruise? Well, if I were I'd be much fitter, with far better teeth, a range of cool suits and presumably lots of domestic help, admin back-up and tech support. I'd be rich. And I'd be loved and revered (for the most part) as one of the greatest stars in movie history. Steven Spielberg would have told me, 'You saved Hollywood's ass,' for releasing Top Gun: Maverick in cinemas after the pandemic in 2022. Right now I'd be touring the great cities of the world promoting The Final Reckoning, my eighth (and most likely not final) Mission: Impossible. The box office is looking good; the reviews have largely been great. Hungry for the critical acclaim I have
