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"Hey everyone, here we are over stunning South Africa, and we're filming 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning' parts one and two," Cruise yells to a camera over the blaring ambient sound of an aircraft whirring, reports 'Variety'. "I didn't want the year to end without thanking you all for coming out to the theaters, and thank you for supporting 'Top Gun: Maverick'."

Emily Blunt mentioned during the course of 'Smartless' podcast, quoted by "The Mirror", "The first time I put it on I started to cry and (Tom) didn't know what to do. He just stared at me and was like 'I know, I know', I was like 'Tom I'm not sure how I'm going to get through this shoot' and just started to cry."

The TV special 'American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes' is a collection of dozens of stories about American heroes in military history told by celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Tom Cruise, Gayle King, Edward Norton, Sarah Paulson, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt and Hilary Swank, among others.

The 'Top Gun: Maverick' actor could be blasted off into space to perform a spacewalk for an upcoming film, becoming the first civilian to do so, reports Mirror.co.uk. Universal chairwoman Dame Donna Langley hinted at the future movie, which would see the 60-year-old Hollywood actor Tom Cruise making history at the International Space Station if all goes to plan.

The film returned to the top of box office charts over Labor Day weekend, adding $7.9 million between Friday and Monday and bringing ticket sales to $701 million. According to Paramount, 'Maverick' is the only film to ever be No. 1 at the domestic box office for both Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays, reports 'Variety'.

Shosh and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of writer Ehud Yonay, filed the suit in June, arguing that the studio made the sequel without first renewing the rights to the article. In the motion to dismiss, Paramount, according to Variety, argued that it did not need to obtain the rights, because 'Top Gun: Maverick' is a work of fiction that has almost nothing in common with the non-fiction article and that the facts and ideas conveyed in the article cannot be copyrighted.

With this, the sequel to the 1986 film has become the sixth-highest grossing movie in US domestic box office history. According to Variety, it's an especially impressive benchmark because 2018's every-hero-but-the-kitchen-sink adventure 'Avengers: Infinity War' had a little help in building up anticipation. It served as part one (2019's 'Endgame' was part two) of Marvel's epic culmination of more than 20 movies -- most of which were box office juggernauts in their own right -- over 10 years.

According to 'Variety', it's only the second movie in pandemic times to cross $400 million stateside, 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' being the first. While the film may have clear skies in June, heavy turbulence is expected for the Tom Cruise-starrer in July as 'Maverick' will have to fight off heavyweights like 'Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8), 'Minions: The Rise of Gru' (July 1) to keep the domestic crown through 2022.

Those returns, according to 'Variety', rank among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in North American box office history. The second-weekend earnings also pushed 'Top Gun: Maverick' to $291 million in North America, enough to overtake 2005's 'War of the Worlds' ($243 million) as Cruise's highest-grossing film ever at the domestic box office.

The montage, studded with shots of Cruise saving the world as Ethan Hunt from various 'Mission: Impossible' adventures, was screened before the star-studded world premiere of 'Top Gun: Maverick'. Here's how 'Variety' has reported the excision of footage featuring Kidman: