<p style="font-weight: 400;">Hollywood director Steven Spielberg complimented Tom Cruise at Monday&#8217;s Academy Awards luncheon, telling him that his film “Top Gun: Maverick” may well have saved Hollywood.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Top Gun: Maverick” has <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2500036097/?ref_=bo_yld_table_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grossed</a> $1.48 billion worldwide since its release in May 2022. Other films did well in 2022; “<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1700221445/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jurassic World: Dominion</a>,” which opened in June, has raked in over $1 billion worldwide; “<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr535450117/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness</a>” and “<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr101863941/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minions: The Rise of Gru</a>” took in almost $1 billion since their releases in May and July, respectively. “<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr1943818757/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Avatar: The Way Of Water</a>,” which opened in December, outdid them all, earning over $2.2 billion worldwide.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;You saved Hollywood’s ass, and you might have saved theatrical distribution,&#8221; Spielberg told Cruise, &#8220;Seriously, ’Maverick’ might have saved the entire theatrical industry.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Cruise insisted that his film be released in theaters rather than on streaming services, which have burgeoned since the COVID pandemic.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The two men have worked together on two films: “Minority Report” and “War Of The Worlds.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Top Gun: Maverick” is nominated for best picture, along with “All Quiet On The Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans,” “Tar,” Triangle Of Sadness,” and “Women Talking.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” Spielberg told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/movies/steven-spielberg-the-fabelmans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> in December. “They were paid off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I’m talking about. And then everything started to change.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I think there has to be a concerted effort on the part of movie directors to demand that the streaming services footing the bill for most of these films give their movies a chance to be exhibited theatrically and not just in four theaters to qualify for awards. It’s going to have to come from all of us — the WGA [the Writers Guild], the DGA [the Directors Guild], and eventually the academy,” he declared.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Certain movies are perfectly suitable to the iPad or the living room. So the decision that executives and executives like myself at Amblin Partners have to make is: Do we consign this movie to a streaming service or this other movie to a four- or six-week theatrical window? &#8230; We don’t want these chains to file Chapter 11. We want theaters to stay open,” he concluded.</p>

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