The final day of CincemaCon could have easily been called Tom Cruise day as Paramount showcase two of his films, amid their wares.
Paramount’s president, former actor turned producer (his shingle Tollin-Robbins produced a number of WB/CW shows) Brian Robbins touted films :
-BABYLON by Damien Chazzelle (WHIPLASH, LALA LAND). Starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, it’s background is Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies. Pitt wil be playing John Gilbert and Robbie Clara Bow. It also stars Katherine Waterston, Max MInghella, Eric Roberts, Lukas Haas and Samara Weaving
Someone get Emma Mackey and Jamie Pressley on the phone.
-As part of their sizzle reel a title card was flashed for A QUIET PLACE spinoff named A QUIET PLACE : DAY ONE. There is still set to be a standard third film A QUIET PLACE - PART III for 2025.
-Trailer for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7, which
which reveals that it is named MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, scheduled for a July 24, 2023 release.
Which is insane as they are currently filming MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 8 so I take it to mean MI7 is actually split into two parts and the 8th - and likely final- film is its own film. Or maybe they have just not formally announced that MI8 is no more and the currently filming one is, indeed, MI: DEAD RECKONING PART TWO. In any case the currently shooting one is slated for a June 28, 2024 release.
In any case: TBT the tremendous women of Mission Impossible (not counting the women who didn’t stick around like Maggie Q and Paula Patton).
The event closed out with the attendees seeing TOP GUN: MAVERICK in its entirety.
Delayed from a 2020 release and a whopping 36 years after the first film, Tom Cruise returns to the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, who returns to train newbies (which includes Miles Teller and Glen Powell-
(in the tradition of Cruise gifting his costars, unlike Dakota Fanning who still receives shoes for her birthday from him, and others who get an annual Christmas cake, Powell was gifted flight training so he could get a pilot license).
By all accounts the movie by the attendees and some have even took time to say how great Lady Gaga’s song for the film is. Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” and Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” are big shoes to fill, Stephanie. Let’s see if her track stands the test of the time.
So over on Twitter, when I got near 100 follows, I asked people if they wanted a specific klance art. I got a sports au request, and my damaged brain decided to do the greatest sports scene in film: the Top Gun volleyball scene. Keith is Mavrick, the hothead, hot shot fighter pilot. And Lance is his fiercest rival for Garrison Top Gun, Iceman. Cool, precise, slick as ice. Part II soonish.
btw, if you haven’t seen Top Gun, it’s on Netflix (US) rn. The heat b/w Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise is palpable. I do not know how ppl in the 80s could watch this and not see that these two dudes are super gay for each other.
