While many films have already shifted their theatrical release plans due to the coronavirus pandemic, Paramount’s highly anticipated Top Gun: Maverick (for the time being) remains on course to open worldwide on June 24th and is currently shaping up to be the biggest and best action movie of the year. 

While speaking with Empire, for their May issue, the film’s 3x Academy Award-nominated superstar Tom Cruise explained what convinced him to finally sign on for the long-rumored sequel, which will reunite him with original Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He says, “We just started talking, and I realised that there were things that we could accomplish cinematically. And I started getting excited about this big challenge of, ‘How do we do it?’ So I said to Jerry, ‘I’ll do it if…’ meaning, I’m not going to do the CGI stuff.”

However, unlike the original Top Gun, the action this time around is all real as the actors got behind the cockpits (with trained fighter pilots, of course) and actually experienced all of the g-force heavy action sequences firsthand. “What’s different about this movie is that [in Top Gun] we put the actors in the F-14s and we couldn’t use one frame of it, except some stuff on Tom, because they all threw up. It’s hysterical to see their eyes roll back in their heads. So everything was done on a gimbal. But in this movie, Tom wanted to make sure the actors could actually be in the F-18s.” says Bruckheimer as he reminisces on the experience of filming the 1986 classic. 

Cruise, who’s already gone above and beyond with the death-defying stunts for his Mission: Impossible franchise, made sure Paramount knew exactly what to expect with the level of practical thrills he hoped to achieve with this film before the shoot began. Cruise tells the trade with a laugh, “I said to the studio, ‘You don’t know how hard this movie’s going to be. No-one’s ever done this before,’ There’s never been an aerial sequence shot this way. I don’t know if there ever will be again, to be honest.”

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

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Amy Adams first played Lois Lane in 2013’s Man of Steel, and has since appeared in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Just like every other cast member, her role in the latter was drastically altered, but the actress has once again expressed an interest in being given the opportunity to play the character again somewhere down the line.

As you can see, Fandom’s Twitter account has shared a recent quote from the actress in which she talks about reprising the role, while also acknowledging the fact it probably won’t happen.

“Amy Adams would ‘totally be open’ to reprising her role as Lois Lane in a future DC movie, but isn’t holding out hope – ‘I think [the studio is] moving in a different direction, from my understanding,'” the quote reads. While a Supergirl is rumoured to be in the early stages of development, that’s not necessarily a natural fit for Lois Lane, and another Man of Steel movie seems doubtful too.

Looking at Warner Bros.’ slate of upcoming DC Comics movies, there’s nowhere a cameo from Lois even seems likely, so Adams’ time as the character having reached its end is entirely possible. 

The same could be said for Henry Cavill, though he too remains optimistic about one day returning.

Are you hoping to see more of this version of Lois Lane in the DC Extended Universe moving forward?

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Per a new report, and in an effort to provide some fresh entertainment to those currently quarantined across the globe, Warner Bros.’ Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and STXFilms’ The Gentlemen have both moved up their Digital HD release dates from April to next Tuesday, March 24th. 

While Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey was one of this year’s biggest box office disappointments as it grossed just over $199.1 million ($84.1M domestic; $115M foreign) on an estimated $100 million production budget, which was well short of its estimated $250M to $300 million break even number, Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen was one of this year’s most pleasant surprises, both critically and commercially. The film ultimately earned over $115 milion on an estimated $22 million production budget. 

The news comes hot on the heels of Universal Pictures’ decision to make The Invisible Man, Emma and The Hunt available for rent this coming Friday as well as making Trolls: World Tour available for rent on April 10, which was its original theatrical release date. 

Disney also made its billion-dollar blockbuster Frozen 2 available to stream on Disney+ last weekend, well ahead of its intended streaming launch date, and have also made Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker available to purchase on all Digital HD platforms.

With the coronavirus pandemic currently showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon, it should be an interesting few weeks/months for the film industry as top studios debate the pros/cons of possibly launching some of their upcoming films on streaming platforms rather than give them their theatrical launches to mitigate losses during this troubling time. 

However, with that said, it remains increasingly unlikely that potential major blockbusters like Black Widow, A Quiet Place Part II, Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984, Top Gun: Maverick and others will be pushed to streaming, as it would likely result in unprecedented losses for the respective studios. Pushing them to later in 2020 and/or to 2021 will likely remain the most viable option. 

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