TOM CRUISE

And it’s just what every cineplex in the country needs.

The new “Top Gun” sequel isn’t the first time an actor has returned to a role after a long hiatus, but it doesn’t happen often.

This weekend Tom Cruise has a chance to do something he's never done before — open a film to more than $100 million at the domestic box office.

The war in Ukraine took a starring role on the opening night of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and it has rarely been far out of frame since.

Tom Cruise returns as Navy flyboy Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, in a sequel that feels familiar and new in just the right proportions.

Val Kilmer first played Iceman alongside Tom Cruise's Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in "Top Gun" at 26 years old, and his role in the newest installment sees his character as a commander in the U.S. Navy.

After sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, “Top Gun: Maverick” is flying full throttle into theaters this week.

Other big May releases include "Downton Abbey: A New Era" and "Men."

Other big May releases include “Downton Abbey: A New Era" and “Men.”

Doctor Strange and his multiverse got to linger a little longer atop the weekend box office while Tom Cruise waits in the wings.

This Top Gun-inspired name is the sixth most popular baby boy's name in Iowa in 2022, according to data from names.org.

James Gray’s autobiographical coming of age film “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere of the new “Top Gun” movie

Tom Cruise has said he and Prince William “have a lot in common” as the Hollywood star and the royal met on the red carpet in London for the U.K. premiere of the new “Top Gun” movie.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived at the charity premiere of the new Tom Cruise movie, Top Gun: Maverick.

Tom Cruise mania descended Wednesday in Cannes where the actor made a whirlwind appearance at the French film festival to screen “Top Gun: Maverick,” exalt the big screen and sit for a rare interview.

During a week in mid-May, broadcast television networks traditionally unveil their fall plans in flashy presentations before advertisers in New York.

“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” stayed on top of the box office charts in its second weekend in theaters.

Val Kilmer took to Twitter on Friday night to share a “special throwback” picture featuring members of the original “Top Gun” cast.

After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.

21 Pilots singer Tyler Joseph recently revealed he was set to write music for "Top Gun: Maverick" but was fired by Tom Cruise. The film is set to release on May 24 after coronavirus pandemic delays.

Director Joseph Kosinski told Insider that Kelly McGillis and Meg Ryan aren't in the sequel because he didn't want to "always be looking backwards."

Last year, while filming in the U.K., the actor landed in a helicopter in a family's field, then let them go for a ride.

Thirty-six years after the original, Tom Cruise unveils the much-expected "Top Gun" sequel on an aircraft carrier in San Diego, ahead of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, later this month.

Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disney’s “Doctor Strange and the Multitverse of Madness” and runs through the end of August.

Kim Kardashian shut down the Met Gala red carpet Monday in one of Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic dresses.

Nick Lodolo earned his career win of his Major League career during the Cincinnati Reds' 4-1 victory over St. Louis on Sunday.

With tensions around the war in Ukraine as a backdrop, the Cannes Film Festival plans to host some 35,000 people as the movie industry looks to reclaim its pre-pandemic glamour.

Eileen Berlin, who became Cruise's first manager when he was 18, told the Daily Mail that the actor was angry that the waitress recognized him.

The former manager told the Daily Mail that Cruise once threw an album of teen magazines at him because he didn't want to be a "teen idol."

"Top Gun" star Tom Cruise and NASA astronaut Victor Glover bonded virtually over fast planes and SpaceX spaceships in a wide-ranging conversation about astronaut training.

U.K.-based Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) has announced plans to launch a movie production studio module intended to connect to the International Space Station.

It will be another year before a new “Mission: Impossible” movie hits theaters.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance said the seventh and eighth installments in the Mission Impossible franchise would be delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.

Called SEE-1, the module would be "the world's first content and entertainment studios and multi-purpose arena in space."

Even though NBC dropped the 2022 Golden Globe Awards, the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association proceeded with its 79th edition Sunday night without a telecast, nominees, a red carpet, a host, press or even a livestream.

Snoop Dogg has read the nominations for the 79th Golden Globes.

Gothic novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications from a stroke.

AccuWeather's Bill Wadell reported live from New York on Nov. 23, hours after some communities near the Great Lakes saw their first accumulating snow of the season.

General Raisi (L) has been campaigning to become Interpol president, despite allegations of torture against him

Those traveling for the holiday in the Northeast are facing frigid temperatures at Penn Station in New York City.

Syria's decade-long conflict has forced Mohammad, Amer and Nadim out of the classroom and into child labour, where they work long hours to support their families in difficult conditions to put food on the table and provide their siblings with an education, so they don't have to suffer the same fate.

President Biden spoke Tuesday about how his administration is tapping an emergency oil reserve to increase supply and help lower gas prices at the pump. He also spoke broadly about the state of the economy. CBS News congressional correspondent Kris Van Cleave joined CBSN to discuss.

An attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie said Tuesday that he fatally shot himself in the head.

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President Joe Biden orders 50 million barrels of oil released from America's strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs. It is aimed at global energy markets and also helps Americans coping with rising prices ahead of holiday travel. (Nov. 23)

Even if you're not in Rome, you can still do what the Romans do.

Pediatric COVID-19 cases are up 16% in a week and up 41% in the last three weeks. Across the country, vaccination requirement deadlines approach for students.

A Russian actor and a film director who spent 12 days in orbit to make the world’s first movie in space say they were so thrilled with their experience on the International Space Station that they felt sorry to leave.

A Russian film crew bid farewell to the International Space Station crew before returning to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for "The Challenge".

They’re all the rage: fillers.

The two candidates for Boston's next mayor, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, faced off in the first one-on-one debate since the preliminary contest last month. Watch the two candidates answer on police reform.

British lawmakers are denouncing the government's early response to the pandemic, saying it resulted in thousands of avoidable deaths. CBS News contributor Simon Bates unpacks the scathing report in this week's installment of "London Calling."

Stephanie Wade talks to a man who almost fell victim to the scam.

Drivers told AccuWeather's Bill Wadell they're worried about the effect interstate shutdowns due to snow could have on already struggling supply chains across the country.

Here's everything you need to know about growing this fragrant perennial.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday became the first Democrat to jump into the 2022 governor's race. CBSN Pittsburgh's Chris Shapiro reports on Shapiro's announcement and the state of the race so far.

Should you go with two, three, or five milligrams?

Caffeine, alcohol, and anxiety are the most typical culprits.

The White House says it has helped broker an agreement for the Port of Los Angeles to operate 24/7 to help address supply chain issues. CBS News' Natalie Brand reports on conditions driving up prices for consumers, and CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero with more on the administration's response.

Time to unlock the mighty health benefits of mung beans.

There's more than one type of millionaire—and you just might be one of them.

In a move to prevent overcrowding, government officials in Venice are using cellphone data to track visitors who come in and out of the city. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay joins "CBSN AM" with the details.

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli chats with USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa about his upcoming tour and the success of his hit, "Time to Say Goodbye."

Teddy was a gift to Naomi Pascal before she met her adoptive parents in Ethiopia. She carried him around everywhere until she lost him at Glacier National Park. This is the story of how he got back.

The Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in Abu Dhabi holds an event where participants can join a bloodless, real-life version of the Netflix smash hit "Squid Game". The show blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global.

A group called The Fairness Project is launching a new campaign aiming to make ballot measures accessible across the country. Kelly Hall, the executive director of the organization, joins Tanya Rivero on CBSN to discuss their goals.

Tom Cruise is getting a sneak preview of what it's like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.

Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of “Top Gun: Maverick,” sending another of the fall’s top movies out of 2021 due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the delta variant.

The speed limit for most of Paris is now 30 kilometers per hour (less than 19 miles per hour).

Police say the rider of an unlicensed electric scooter involved in the hit-and-run death of “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes was well aware he hit her and fled to a repair shop afterward seeking to fix damages on the vehicle.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday announced reforms to its bylaws and an overhaul of its membership process in a bid to diversify its ranks and potentially restore the heavily criticized Golden Globes.

Seventh-seeded Neal Skupski of Britain and Desirae Krawczyk of the United States have reached the mixed-doubles final at Wimbledon.

Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire” is rising again on screen, this time for TV.

“Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes has died 10 days after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York City.

“Gone Girl” and “Cocktail” actor Lisa Banes remains hospitalized in critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York City.

Paramount Pictures has temporarily shut down shooting on the British set of Tom Cruise’s seventh “Mission: Impossible” film after someone tested positive for coronavirus.

Alex Bowman won the the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway to led Hendrick Motorsports to a 1-2-3-4 finish.

Amid growing pressure on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC said Monday that will not air the Golden Globes in 2022.

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2019 file photo, actor John Travolta attends the LA premiere of "The Fanatic" at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The Maine mansion that Travolta shared with his late wife, actor Kelly Preston, has been put up for sale. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)ISLESBORO, Maine – The Maine mansion that actor John Travolta shared with his late wife, actor Kelly Preston, has been put up for sale. Built in 1903, the 10,830-square-foot home has 20 bedrooms and sits on a 48-acre estate along the ocean. Travolta became a Hollywood star in the 1970s and was nominated for an acting Oscar for his 1977 performance in “Saturday Night Fever.” He was nominated again for his role in 1994's “Pulp Fiction.”

On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, Axiom announced they will be the first private space station crew, a year ahead of the planned launch. (Courtesy Axiom Space via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men who are each paying $55 million to fly on a SpaceX rocket. “This is the first private flight to the International Space Station. It’s never been done before," said Axiom's chief executive and president Mike Suffredini, a former space station program manager for NASA. Russia has been in the off-the-planet tourism business for years, selling rides to the International Space Station since 2001.

“The Midnight Sky,” which Clooney directed and stars in, is an apocalyptic sci-fi drama with some striking solitude. Debuting Wednesday on Netflix, “The Midnight Sky,” based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel “Good Morning, Midnight," is Clooney's seventh film as director and his biggest scaled production yet. ___AP: You finished shooting “The Midnight Sky” in February, right before the pandemic began. AP: What drew you to “The Midnight Sky”? I know people who are older -- older than me, even -- who live with real regret.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 file photo, actor Tom Cruise wears a face mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as he greets fans during a break from shooting Mission Impossible 7, along Rome's Fori Imperiali avenue. Tom Cruise has launched an expletive-laden rant at colleagues on the set of his latest Mission: Impossible movie after he reportedly spotted two workers failing to abide by social distancing rules. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)LONDON – Tom Cruise has launched an expletive-laden rant at colleagues on the set of his latest "Mission: Impossible" movie, after he reportedly spotted two workers failing to respect social distancing rules. Many movies have either been delayed until after the pandemic is over or because of COVID-related delays on set, including the seventh instalment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. During his outburst, Cruise notes the higher costs for insuring a movie in these times.

The European and Russian space agencies skipped the 2020 Mars launch window, their life-sniffing Mars rover grounded until 2022 because of technical issues and COVID-19 restrictions. Three weeks later, SpaceX launched its biggest cargo shipment yet to the space station for NASA. If the repairs work and the capsule finally reaches the space station, the first Starliner astronauts could be flying by summer. The actor was in talks with NASA this year about filming a movie at the space station. “Whatever else can be said about the four years of the Trump administration, they have been positive for the U.S. civilian space program,” noted John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute.

The world also said goodbye to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement who died in July. Other former political figures who died this year include Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Arizona Gov. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2020 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___David Stern, 77. The guitarist who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four. He fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music.

Festival attendees cycle in front of the main cinema ahead of the start of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. The 77th edition of the worlds oldest film festival opening Wednesday looks nothing like its predecessors. Italys strict 10-week lockdown largely tamed the virus, but infections are now rebounding after summer vacations. Guests to the glamorous film festival are not exempt. Italian films are well represented, including the first Italian opening-night film in years, the out-of-competition family drama Lacci by Daniele Luchetti.

Volodymyr Zelensky may have been swept into the center of a major political storm in Washington, but the Ukrainian President still made some time to meet Hollywood A-lister Tom Cruise this week. (CNN) - Volodymyr Zelensky may have been swept into the center of a major political storm in Washington, but the Ukrainian President still made some time to meet Hollywood A-lister Tom Cruise this week. Zelensky hosted Cruise in his office in Kiev on Monday evening, his administration said in a statement. "At the invitation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the world-famous American actor, film director and producer Tom Cruise arrived in Kiev," the administration said Tuesday. In the video, Cruise mentions seeing cobbled streets.

You have to wonder if the Virginia head basketball coach has ever viewed the 1990s Tom Cruise flick, famous for its "show me the money" catchphrase. Bennett, who led the Virginia men's basketball team to its first national title earlier this year, declined what the university described as a "substantial" raise. Instead the coach asked that financial investments be made to improve the basketball program he's run for a decade, and other sports under the school's athletic program. "This just does not happen in our industry," said Virginia athletic director Carla Williams, who was tasked with making revisions to Bennett's contract. Instead of taking the big raise, Bennett got another year tacked onto his current deal, which now runs for seven years.

But what about his adversary and fan favorite, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, played in the 1986 original by Val Kilmer? The trailer for Top Gun: Maverick is out. "Friends said it's official - #TOPGUN2 was announced today," Kilmer wrote with a photo on Instagram showing him in an Iceman T-shirt. Now that the movie is actually done and headed to theaters in 2020, Kilmer is even more excited. He posted the trailer on his official Facebook page with the caption "You up for this one, Maverick?"