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The nearly two-year old dogfight between Paramount and the family of the writer of the 1983 article that inspired the franchise is over, at least for now. In an order released late on April 5,  U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson grounded the copyright infringement, breach of contract, and…

Lewis Hamilton is producing a Formula 1 movie with Joseph Kosinski starring Brad Pitt. The British racing star could have worked with the filmmaker on Top Gun: Maverick had it not been for his conflicting work schedule. In a new interview, Hamilton revealed he lobbied Tom Cruise to star in a…

The actor who played “Wolfman” in the original Top Gun is suing Paramount Pictures over what he claims is the unauthorized use of his likeness in the 2022 sequel. Barry Tubb, the actor who played Leonard “Wolfman” Wolfe in the 1986 movie Top Gun, filed a complaint Wednesday in California court…

Deadline has compiled a list of the highest-grossing movies at the North American box office for each since 1989, including the most recent winner, 2023’s Barbie. With a few noted exceptions, the list is dominated by superheroes, Star Wars, animation and, of course, Harry Potter. Click on the photo above to launch the…

After soaring to the highest heights of his career with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise looks to surpass that with the Mission: Impossible franchise’s seventh outing, Dead Reckoning Part One. From the time he launched his now over 40-year career with an appearance in Endless Love, Cruise was “laser-focused” on achieving…

Ahead of the much-anticipated release of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, director Chris McQuarrie has revealed what Tom Cruise told him during their first encounter in 2006. McQuarrie, one of Cruise's closest colleagues as director of the past three Mission: Impossible movies and…

Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance's Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise's biggest film ever in the market…

Drew Barrymore dropped out of hosting the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards in solidarity with the writers strike. However, the opening bit that was pretaped before the WGA strike still aired during the telecast and Never Been Kissed fans were treated to the actor reprising her role of Josie…

James Cameron climbs the ladder to cut the net for winning Deadline’s 2022 Most Valuable Blockbuster Movie Tournament after Avatar: The Way of Water cleared over a half-billion dollars in profit after all ancillaries. Given the sleeper nature of this sequel, and given the overall boom expected from…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios' respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have…

One was fiercely focused, the other accident-prone. They both made it. The careers of Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise first collided exactly 40 years ago when the two very young but ambitious actors showed up at an Oklahoma location to assume their roles in The…

MTV has announced the nominees for the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards. Top Gun: Maverick leads the film side with six nominations. It tied with Stranger Things and The Last Of Us, also with six noms each on the scripted television side. Jersey Shore Family Vacation, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Real Housewives of B…