<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-shares-incredible-behind-the-scenes-shots-from-mission-impossible-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise&#8217;s</a> latest &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; film and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youve-given-my-life-purpose-harrison-ford-gets-emotional-at-screening-of-latest-indiana-jones-film" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Ford&#8217;s</a> return to the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; franchise are struggling at the domestic box office as the highly-anticipated summer blockbuster films are estimated to lose $100 million each.</p>
<p>The seventh installment in the M:I franchise, &#8220;<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt9603212/?ref_=bo_se_r_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">M:I-Dead Reckoning Part One</a>,&#8221; has earned $164,626,507 at the domestic box office as of Monday with &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny&#8221; bringing in $173,611,344, according to <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1462764/?ref_=bo_se_r_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Box Office Mojo</a>. That puts both films behind the surprise hit of the summer &#8220;<a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt7599146/?ref_=bo_se_r_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sound of Freedom</a>&#8221; which has earned $177,773,859 as of Monday domestically.</p>
<p>Internationally both films have done better — with the latest &#8220;Mission: Impossible,&#8221; which came out in July, scoring $541 million at the end of the weekend. And Ford&#8217;s reprisal of his famed adventurer&#8217;s role in the fifth installment of the Disney franchise, which hit theaters in early June,  earning $375 million over the same time frame.</p>
<p>Despite those global numbers, the cost of the making the two films in pandemic era (due to delays in release dates and COVID safety measures), means they both had to do better than they have, with experts estimating both will have lost nearly $100 million in their theater runs, according to sources familiar with the financials, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/indiana-jones-5-mission-impossible-7-box-office-flops-explained-1235690262/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#39;Mission: Impossible 7&#39; and &#39;Indiana Jones 5&#39; both estimated to lose nearly $100 million <a href="https://t.co/ojc3WvNynz">https://t.co/ojc3WvNynz</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;These movies would have been a lot more economical if it weren&#8217;t for COVID,&#8221; Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice Pro told the outlet. &#8220;But even if that meant their budgets were inflated, at the end of the day, these movies cost what they cost and performed how they performed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sources with knowledge told the outlet Cruise&#8217;s &#8220;M:I-7&#8221; needs to earn $600 million globally in order to break even.</p>
<p>To put the numbers of each of the film&#8217;s into further context, &#8220;Mission: Impossible-Fallout&#8221; in 2018 earned $791 million, not adjusted for inflation. While 2008&#8217;s &#8220;Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&#8221; remains the franchise&#8217;s highest-grossing film after it took in $790 million globally, the outlet noted.</p>
<p>Cruise&#8217;s last film before &#8220;M:I-7&#8221; came out was the smash hit &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; from Paramount. It was released in May 2022, and held the honor of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/avatar-sequel-soars-past-top-gun-maverick-globally-to-become-top-grossing-film-of-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top-grossing movie</a> released last year, earning nearly $1.5 billion globally.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-becomes-studios-highest-earning-film-at-domestic-box-office-in-its-110-year-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; Becomes Studio&#8217;s Highest Earning Film At Domestic Box Office In Its 110 Year-History</a></strong></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-shares-incredible-behind-the-scenes-shots-from-mission-impossible-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise</a>&#8216;s &#8220;Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning&#8221; co-stars have revealed the wild gifts they received from the superstar during production.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-time-to-pick-a-side-tom-cruise-posts-high-octane-trailer-for-mission-impossible-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61-year-old actor,</a> who has previously been known for the amazing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-spills-details-on-the-christmas-gift-he-gets-every-year-from-tom-cruise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coconut cake</a> he sends to various Hollywood stars at Christmastime, gifted helicopter rides, shark diving expeditions, and skydiving experiences, <a href="https://people.com/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-costars-reveal-his-generous-gifts-exclusive-7559288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s [Cruise] always very keen to show his appreciation,&#8221; Simon Pegg, who starred in the last four &#8220;M:I&#8221; films, told the outlet. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s so used to being the focus of attention, it&#8217;s naturally his instinct to kind of reflect everything back. And he&#8217;s always incredibly sort of generous in terms of his gratitude to us and how he thanks us and how he lets us know that we&#8217;re valued.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a Tom Cruise thing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been filming in a helicopter, and he flew us in the helicopter to this place where you could go into a cage and feed sharks. It was one of those days that we got to the end of the day, and we were like, &#8216;That was a real Tom Cruise kind of day.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guardians-of-the-galaxy-third-film-holds-top-spot-at-box-office-soars-to-new-heights-globally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guardians of the Galaxy</a>&#8221; star Pom Klementieff said she loves the coconut cake, but the skydiving lessons Cruise gifted her were the best.</p>
<p>&#8220;Another beautiful gift that was so thoughtful is that I wanted to skydive with him and also the stunt team, but they said that I needed to get my license,&#8221; Klementieff said. &#8220;So when I wrapped the movie, he gifted me, as my wrap gift, the lessons of learning how to skydive.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He found a teacher for me and I learned how to skydive, and I got my license, and we even did jumps together,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And now I&#8217;m addicted, so that&#8217;s my new thing now!&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Captain America&#8221; actress Hayley Atwell said after working with Cruise for more than three years on the action film, she has also received several Christmas coconut cakes. However, she told the outlet that the &#8220;beautiful&#8221; amphora her co-star gave her for her birthday stands out.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;It&#8217;s a water jug. Nice,'&#8221; Atwell said. &#8220;And then you taste it and you compare it to normal filtered water or tap water, and it&#8217;s really light and kind of creamy. It&#8217;s just a different level of clarity. It&#8217;s beautiful.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-talks-about-most-dangerous-stunt-of-his-career" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise Talks About &#8216;Most Dangerous Stunt Of His Career&#8217;</a></strong></p>


‘Mission: Impossible’ Co-Stars Reveal Wild Gifts From Tom Cruise During Shoot

'Mission: Impossible’ Co-Stars Reveal Wild Gifts From Tom Cruise During Shoot

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<p>Tom Cruise went viral after he posted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-talks-about-most-dangerous-stunt-of-his-career">incredible</a> behind-the-scenes shots from his upcoming film &#8220;Mission: Impossible <span style="font-weight: 400;">–</span> Dead Reckoning Part One&#8221; that showed how a high-speed train sequence came together.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-time-to-pick-a-side-tom-cruise-posts-high-octane-trailer-for-mission-impossible-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61-year-old</a> actor <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1676622885991972865?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> a video on Tuesday about a train action sequence filmed in Norway with the director of the film, Christopher McQuarrie. At the time of this publication, the post has been viewed more than 6.8 million times.</p>
<p>&#8220;This train sequence was tricky, but the outcome made it all worth it,&#8221; Cruise tweeted. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait for everyone to see it come to life!&#8221;</p>
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<p>&mdash; Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1676622885991972865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In the clip, we hear McQuarrie talking about how the movie&#8217;s &#8220;sense of adventure&#8221; would include an action train sequence, something they had &#8220;always wanted to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We wanted to build upon the previous films,&#8221; the director says. &#8220;And apply all of that knowledge to something practical and real.&#8221;</p>
<p>The footage shows outside shots of Cruise&#8217;s character Ethan Hunt on top of a train and a warehouse where the shell of a train with different train cars was being built to help them create movie magic.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had to build a train if we wanted to destroy it,&#8221; McQuarrie says, noting that the cars had to be able to run on a working &#8220;railroad track.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Another voice comes on and explains that there&#8217;s a fight that takes place on top of a moving train going 60 mph through a real valley surrounded by mountains.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a shot of a bridge being blown up, as well as information about how the team had to crash the train in order for movie-goers to be &#8220;invested&#8221; in everything these characters go through.</p>
<p>He tells Cruise in one shot, &#8220;You&#8217;ll be chasing the train as it goes off&#8221; the cliff, explaining that it involved &#8220;every single camera&#8221; having one shot to get it right.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mission: Impossible <span style="font-weight: 400;">–</span> Dead Reckoning Part One&#8221; hits theaters July 12. The sequel is still in <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-trailer-tom-cruise-1235493781/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">production</a> and scheduled to hit theaters June 28, 2024.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-talks-about-most-dangerous-stunt-of-his-career" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise Talks About &#8216;Most Dangerous Stunt Of His Career&#8217;</a></strong></p>


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Tom Cruise Shares Incredible Behind-The-Scenes Shots From ‘Mission: Impossible 7′

Tom Cruise Shares Incredible Behind-The-Scenes Shots From ‘Mission: Impossible 7’

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-and-top-gun-maverick-can-take-another-victory-lap-after-debut-on-paramount" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise</a> got everyone&#8217;s attention on Wednesday when he posted a high-octane trailer for the latest installment in the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; franchise showing his character riding off a cliff on a motorcycle.</p>
<p>The 60-year-old actor posted on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsWE7CCsq2I/?igshid=YzcyNDA0Yzg3NA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> a two-minute plus clip with a caption that read, &#8220;It’s time to pick a side. Here is the new trailer for #MissionImpossible &#8211; Dead Reckoning Part One.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the viral trailer for the seventh installment of the movie, titled &#8220;Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,&#8221; Cruise&#8217;s character Ethan Hunt speeds up to the edge of a cliff on a motorcycle, before he goes on several high speed chases, and is then seen near the end of the clip hanging onto the back of a train by a thread.</p>
<p>A voiceover in the trailer says, &#8220;We can not escape the past.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Your life will always matter more to me than my own,&#8221; Ethan tells agents Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) in the clip.</p>
<p>&#8220;None of our lives can matter more than this mission,&#8221; Luther tells Ethan, who replies, &#8220;I don&#8217;t accept that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The logline for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-jumps-from-helicopter-to-thank-fans-who-saw-top-gun-maverick-in-theaters-honor-of-a-lifetime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cruise&#8217;s</a> film reads, &#8220;Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one-trailer-tom-cruise-1235493781/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan&#8217;s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins,&#8221; the description adds. &#8220;Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.&#8221;</p>
<p>At one point in the trailer, Cruise&#8217;s character drives right off the edge of a cliff and soars through the sky without the bike.</p>
<p>Cruise&#8217;s monster box office hit &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; released in 2022 and ended up becoming one of the top-grossing films of all time, earning $1.4 billion worldwide, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/08/top-gun-maverick-1-4-billion-worldwide-box-office-tom-cruise-1235097053/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> previously noted.</p>
<p>The film&#8217;s success worldwide also made it the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; star’s first movie to ever reach such a milestone. The success of the movie did not escape Cruise, who took to social media to thank fans for turning up in droves.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mission: Impossible 7&#8221; hits theaters July 12. The sequel is still in production and scheduled to hit theaters June 28, 2024, the outlet noted.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-scores-new-honor-after-being-named-best-film-of-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; Scores New Honor After Being Named Best Film Of 2022</a></strong></p>


‘It’s Time To Pick A Side’: Tom Cruise Posts High-Octane Trailer For ‘Mission: Impossible 7’

<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cruise"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tom Cruise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was very on-brand while accepting his 2023 MTV Movies &amp; TV Award Sunday night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 60-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actor</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> won “Best Performance in a Movie” for last year&#8217;s smash hit sequel “</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gun"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top Gun: Maverick</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Cruise accepted the honor with a video clip of himself piloting a fighter plane while wearing sunglasses and speaking into a headset. The actor made sure his golden popcorn trophy was inside the plane and visible as he delivered his thanks for the honor, which is determined by audience votes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Thank you so much for this award,&#8221; the “Top Gun” alum said. &#8220;I make these films for you. I love you. I love entertaining you. To know how much you enjoy it, how much you appreciate it, there&#8217;s just no better feeling.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Things we&#39;ll never forget: <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCruise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomCruise</a>&#39;s performance in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TopGun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TopGun</a>: Maverick 🎥 </p>
<p>Congrats to Tom Cruise on winning Best Performance in a Movie at the 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTVAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTVAwards</a>! <a href="https://t.co/dZr3Wglpdq">pic.twitter.com/dZr3Wglpdq</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Movie &amp; TV Awards (@MTVAwards) <a href="https://twitter.com/MTVAwards/status/1655367059994456065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cruise encouraged everyone to see his upcoming action film “Mission: Impossible &#8211; Dead Reckoning Part One,” which debuts in theaters on July 12. The actor described the project as a &#8220;wild ride.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have a wonderful summer. Thank you again for letting me entertain you. It&#8217;s an absolute privilege. We&#8217;ll see you at the movies,&#8221; the actor concluded. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other nominees in the &#8220;Best Performance&#8221; category included: Austin Butler (“Elvis”), Florence Pugh (“Don&#8217;t Worry Darling”), Keke Palmer (“Nope”), and Michael B. Jordan (“Creed III”).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Top Gun: Maverick” had the most nominations for MTV movie awards this year. In the TV categories, “Stranger Things” and “The Last of Us” also had six nominations. This year’s awards were supposed to be live and in person with Drew Barrymore as host, but producers had to make a last-minute change due to the ongoing Hollywood writer’s strike.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Maverick” grossed more than $1.4 billion at the global box office and more than $690 million domestically after three months in theaters, making it one of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-jumps-from-helicopter-to-thank-fans-who-saw-top-gun-maverick-in-theaters-honor-of-a-lifetime">highest-grossing movies</a> of all time, Variety reported.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cruise filmed a special thank you for fans and jumped out of a helicopter over South Africa in December 2022. While audience scores for the film remained high, critics were less favorable in their reviews. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards but only won Best Sound in what was considered a major snub by the industry. Cruise did not attend the Oscars ceremony in March.</span></p>


Tom Cruise Accepts MTV Award While Flying Fighter Plane: ‘I Love Entertaining You’

Tom Cruise Accepts MTV Award While Flying Fighter Plane

<p>&#8220;The Super Marios Bros. Movie&#8221; has shocked Hollywood after hitting another massive milestone four weeks out when it crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office this weekend.</p>
<p>The film, which is an adaptation of the popular Nintendo video game, has officially become the first movie of 2023 to hit the coveted milestone with the film&#8217;s release worldwide, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/super-mario-bros-movie-1-billion-box-office-milestone-1235598832/">Variety</a> reported.</p>
<p>The Chris Pratt-lead movie earned $490 million in North America and $532 million internationally as of Sunday. The success has made it only the fifth film since the pandemic to hit such a monumental mark, joining such films as &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gunhttps://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gun">Top Gun: Maverick</a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-avatar-flick-tops-1-billion-in-just-14-days-faster-than-any-other-film-this-year">Avatar: The Way of  Water</a>,&#8221; &#8220;Spider-Man: No Way Home,&#8221; and &#8220;Jurassic World Dominion.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” surpassed $1 billion at the global box office on Sunday, making it the 10th animated film to reach that milestone and the first since 2019 <a href="https://t.co/ECUd4Ksydx">https://t.co/ECUd4Ksydx</a></p>
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<p>The movie opened on April 5th during the long Easter holiday and ended up surpassing Marvel&#8217;s highly-anticipated &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.&#8221; After its first weekend, the film had already become the top-grossing film of 2023 at the worldwide box office and domestically, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-mario-bros-movie-smashes-records-becomes-biggest-animated-movie-opening-weekend-ever">reported</a>.</p>
<p>It has a star-studded cast of voices, with Pratt as the voice of Mario and Jack Black voicing the love-struck tortured villain, Bowser. The success makes it not only the first movie to cross the $1 billion mark globally but also the first film ever based on a video game to have that kind of success, the outlet noted.</p>
<p>The film has scored big with audiences too — who have given it a 96% rating on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_bros_movie">Rotten Tomatoes,</a> as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-super-mario-bros-movie-to-cross-1-billion-mark-at-worldwide-box-office-after-second-monster-weekend">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;I took my four year old son to watch this movie as he&#8217;s super into Mario and he LOVED it,&#8221; one audience goer wrote. &#8220;I loved the humor in the movie, the colors and animation. It is a good story line and just a great family friendly movie. I have no complaints.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Perfect for my 11 year old,&#8221; another person wrote. &#8220;She enjoyed it and it didn’t have the adult themes or conversation that I have to explain later when she ask [sic] me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, critics have loved it less, scoring a 59% on the movie review site.</p>
<p>&#8220;Among the many errors of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, screenwriter Matthew Fogel plops him and his brother Luigi into a milquetoast Brooklyn family that doubts them and disrespects their small-business dreams,&#8221; a Chicago Reader critic wrote.</p>
<p><em>Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 95th Annual Academy Awards was bound to be less dramatic than last year’s show no matter what happened.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Academy caught heat for failing to react quickly enough when Will Smith strode onstage and assaulted show host Chris Rock last year, making it so they played things extra safe in 2023. Some say the Oscars were a little too cautious, or to phrase it another way, even more boring than usual. That meant cutting down on the political rhetoric that’s become so predictable at every awards show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But despite host Jimmy Kimmel attempting to make non-offensive jokes, there were still moments during the Oscars which fully displayed the ingrained leftist leanings of the Hollywood community. Did conservatives expect anything else?</span></p>
<h2><strong>1. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” director defends drag queens</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The night’s big winner was the sci-fi indie flick “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” a totally out-of-the-box project about a Chinese-American immigrant (Michelle Yeoh) who must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent the destruction of the multiverse. The film won seven Oscars including Best Picture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The movie’s co-director Daniel Scheinert used his Oscars acceptance speech to defend people who dress in drag, including kids. “We want to dedicate this to the mommies, all the mommies in the world, to our moms,” Scheinert said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Specifically my mom and dad … thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films, or really perverted comedy films, or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody!” he said, likely referencing recent legislation some states introduced that would prohibit sexually explicit drag performances in front of children.</span></p>
<h2><strong>2. &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick” snubbed</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No one expected the enormously successful sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” to win an Academy Award, which probably explains why Tom Cruise decided to skip the ceremony completely. Fans marveled that this pro-America, pro-masculinity movie was even nominated in the first place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MSNBC opinion writer and editor Zeeshan Aleem summed up the feelings of most leftists about “Top Gun” as part of a weekend column. In it, the writer called this blockbuster film’s message “insidious,” “poisonous,” and “literal propaganda.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I hope it tanks at the Oscars,” Aleem concluded. “It’s possible to make thrilling action without so brazenly priming the public for warfare.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Maverick” didn’t win any awards despite being adored by fans and raking in more than $1.4 billion worldwide. Even Kimmel made a few jokes about how the movie “saved” Hollywood by getting people to go back to movie theaters again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film won for “Best Sound” but lost in all the other six categories it was nominated in.</span></p>
<h2><strong>3. Jimmy Kimmel adds a January 6 dig</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Considering how liberals can’t go more than 15 minutes without discussing January 6, it should come as no surprise that the evening’s host couldn’t restrain himself from making a joke about it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While introducing the film editing category, Kimmel added a joke about Fox News host Tucker Carlson.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Anyone who’s ever received a text message from their father knows how important editing is,” the late-night host joked. “Editors do amazing things,” he continued. “Edits can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sight-seeing tour of the Capitol.”</span></p>
<h2><strong>4. Feminism gets a shout out during a “Women Talking” speech</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, “Women Talking” director Sarah Polley added a little dig to her acceptance speech for “Best Adapted Screenplay.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;First of all, I just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words &#8216;women&#8217; and &#8216;talking&#8217; put so close together like that,&#8221; Polley said. She ended her speech by addressing her children, saying, “Your story will be different from ours.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Polley adapted “Women Talking” from the 2018 novel by the same name. The story, which was written by Miriam Toews, is about a group of Mennonite women who must decide whether to stay in or leave their community following widespread sexual assault. </span></p>
<h2><strong>5. Kimmel jokes about Hunter Biden</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least leftists aren’t calling the laptop story fake anymore.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During his opening monologue, Kimmel quipped that “The Fabelmans” director Steven Spielberg and actor Seth Rogen were the “Joe and Hunter Biden of Hollywood.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">That joke got a huge round of applause from the star-studded audience.</span></p>
<h2><strong>6. George Santos becomes the butt of a joke</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another political joke of the evening was at the expense of Congressman George Santos (R-NY), who became a public disgrace after admitting to being a “terrible liar.” It was revealed that he lied about being Jewish plus his education, employment, charity work, and that his mother died on 9/11.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Did you know … the last directing team to win an Oscar was Congressman George Santos?” Kimmel quipped at one point in the evening.</span></p>
<h2><strong>Bonus: Michelle Yeoh takes a dig at Don Lemon</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oscar Award winner Michelle Yeoh, who took home the night’s top prize for Best Actress, made a not-so-subtle reference to notorious left-leaning CNN host Don Lemon’s comment about presidential hopeful Nikki Haley (R) being “past her prime.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yeoh made history as the first Asian person to win an Academy Award.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,” the 60-year-old star said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is proof that dreams, dream big, and dreams do come true. And ladies, don’t ever let anyone tell you you are ever past your prime. Never give up!”</span></p>


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<p>One MSNBC editor is actively rooting against the adrenaline-fueled and Best Picture-nominated &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-scores-new-honor-after-being-named-best-film-of-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Gun: Maverick</a>,&#8221; complaining that it paints too positive a picture of the United States military.</p>
<p>MSNBC opinion writer and editor <span class="byline-name">Zeeshan Aleem explained in a Saturday <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/top-gun-maverick-oscars-2023-rcna73773" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column</a> that the movie, while an entertaining break from CGI and animated content, was sending a message that he called &#8220;insidious&#8221; and &#8220;poisonous.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="byline-name">&#8220;&#8216;Top Gun&#8217; is as insidious as it is entertaining. It does not merely revive a forgotten human-centered spectacle; it also beckons for a return to accepting the American war machine as a beacon of virtue and excitement,&#8221; Aleem wrote, claiming that the movie glorified the excitement of battle — which in turn, glorified war in itself. &#8220;It’s a poisonous kind of nostalgia, one that smuggles love of endless war into a celebration of live action.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Aleem referred to the summer blockbuster as &#8220;literal propaganda,&#8221; noting that the military had given filmmakers access to real aircraft in exchange for some oversight.</p>
<p>&#8220;In exchange for access to military aircraft, the producers of the movie agreed to allow the Defense Department to include its own &#8216;key talking points&#8217; in the script. Perhaps equally important, the script had to be written in a manner that flatters the military in order to secure the buy-in of the Pentagon,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>Aleem went on to argue that the 2022 film and its predecessor were used to &#8220;rehab&#8221; the military&#8217;s image, after periods of waning popularity. The original film, he said, helped the military&#8217;s reputation recover after Vietnam — and the sequel &#8220;diverts from the failed war on terror, and comes as defense officials eye the rise of China.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t object to anyone’s enjoyment of the film, but I hope it tanks at the Oscars,&#8221; Aleem concluded. &#8220;It’s possible to make thrilling action without so brazenly priming the public for warfare.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition to &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; the other 2023 Best Picture <a href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nominees</a> are as follows: &#8220;The Banshees of Inisherin,&#8221; &#8220;Everything Everywhere All at Once,&#8221; &#8220;All Quiet on the Western Front,&#8221; &#8220;The Fabelmans,&#8221; &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; &#8220;Elvis,&#8221; &#8220;Tár,&#8221; &#8220;Triangle of Sadness,&#8221; and &#8220;Women Talking.&#8221; The ceremony will take place on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.</p>


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<p>Director Judd Apatow had some fun at Tom Cruise&#8217;s expense when he roasted the superstar actor for his height and connection to the Church of Scientology at the Directors Guild of America Awards.</p>
<p>During the 55-year-old comedian&#8217;s opening monologue as the host of the DGA Awards on Saturday, Apatow joked about the &#8220;visual effects&#8221; being so good for the box-office hit &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; that people couldn&#8217;t see just &#8220;how short&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cruise">Cruise</a> is, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/judd-apatow-tom-cruise-height-scientology-dga-awards-monologue-1235329732/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;Visual effects in [Top Gun:] Maverick were so top-notch I couldn&#8217;t even see the stack of phone books Tom Cruise sat on to reach the flight controls,&#8221; the director teased. &#8220;That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s always jumping out of tall buildings because you can&#8217;t tell how short he is from a 100-story building. That&#8217;s why when he&#8217;s standing on a wing of an airplane he&#8217;s always alone. He doesn&#8217;t want anyone there next to him for scale.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Apatow then said Tom is not fine, noting how, at the age of 60, the superstar actor seems unaware that the crazy stunts he does, like driving &#8220;a motorcycle off a cliff,&#8221; can be done with the use of something called CGI.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tom is not fine, something is wrong right now,&#8221; Apatow cracked. &#8220;Someone needs to explain something to him called CGI — you don&#8217;t need to do the stunts. They look exactly the same when you do them on the green screen. You&#8217;re 60, calm down.&#8221;</p>
<p>The monologue then slightly shifted to noting the &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-and-top-gun-maverick-can-take-another-victory-lap-after-debut-on-paramount">star&#8217;s</a> well-known status as a member of the Church of Scientology.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every time he does one of these new stunts it does feel like an ad for Scientology, it really does,&#8221; Apatow told the audience. &#8220;I mean, is that in ‘Dianetics’ because there&#8217;s nothing about jumping off a cliff in the Torah?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The only thing he seems to be afraid of is co-parenting and antidepressants,&#8221; he added, as some members of the crowd audibly gasped. &#8220;Do you think if Tom Cruise took antidepressants he&#8217;d be like, &#8216;I&#8217;m not jumping off of a f***ing motorcycle on a cliff? Why do I even work, I&#8217;m rich.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Cruise and all those connected with the monster hit sequel to &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; had reason to celebrate recently after being named the Best Film of 2022 by the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-scores-new-honor-after-being-named-best-film-of-2022">reported</a>. The highly anticipated sequel to the 1986 movie grossed more domestically than any other movie in 2022 and was genuinely loved by critics and audience members alike.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-becomes-studios-highest-earning-film-at-domestic-box-office-in-its-110-year-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; Becomes Studio’s Highest Earning Film At Domestic Box Office In Its 110 Year-History</a></strong></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cruise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cruise</a> and all those connected with the monster hit &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; have more reason to celebrate after being named the Best Film of 2022 by the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes.</p>
<p>The highly anticipated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sequel</a> to the 1986 movie &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; grossed more domestically than any other movie in 2022 and was genuinely loved by critics and audience members alike, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/02/top-gun-maverick-rotten-tomatoes-best-film-2022-1235253650/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> reported.</p>
<p>The movie scored a 96% certified fresh grade from critics out of nearly 500 reviews — and even more impressive was the 99% fresh score the &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; sequel got from those who went to see the movie. Other movies in the top three include “The Banshees of Inisherin&#8221; with a 97% certified fresh score, and the sci-fi adventure &#8220;Everything Everywhere All at Once&#8221; with 95%.</p>
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<p>The film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Cruise scored a rare A+ CinemaScore, too. It was not only a hit with theater-goers domestically, but ended up being the second highest grossing movie worldwide based on pure calendar days of 2022.</p>
<p>&#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; has also been nominated for a total of six Oscars, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay (from Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, Eric Warren Singer, Peter Craig, and Justin Marks), along with a nomination for Lady Gaga and BloodPop&#8217;s original song &#8220;Hold My Hand,&#8221; the outlet noted.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-becomes-studios-highest-earning-film-at-domestic-box-office-in-its-110-year-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-woke sequel</a>, Cruise&#8217;s character &#8220;Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him,&#8221; before he is called back to “Top Gun,” according to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745960/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IMDb</a>.</p>
<p>The film&#8217;s global success has made it the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; star&#8217;s first film to ever reach such a milestone. The success of the movie did not escape Cruise, who previously took to social media to thank fans for turning up in droves.</p>
<p>&#8220;To all the films in release, to all the studios, and to all the exhibitors: congratulations,&#8221; Cruise’s <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1541489523485442048?s=20&amp;t=ByFJE-HCPM_waJk-exr3Fw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> to his 6.9 million followers read.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">To all the films in release, to all the studios, and to all the exhibitors: congratulations. To the audience: thank you for venturing out and allowing us to entertain you. </p>
<p>See you at the movies.</p>
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<p>&#8220;To the audience: thank you for venturing out and allowing us to entertain you,&#8221; the actor&#8217;s message added. &#8220;See you at the movies.&#8221;</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently paid some compliments to “</span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gun"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top Gun: Maverick</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cruise"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tom Cruise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, calling him one of the hardest-working actors in the business. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 79-year-old movie mogul </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/top-gun-maverick-producer-jerry-bruckheimer-nobody-works-harder-tom-cruise"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Fox News Digital that he’s proud of Cruise’s work ethic while indicating that another “Top Gun” installment wasn&#8217;t out of the question.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There&#8217;s nobody like him. Nobody works harder, cares more, or is a better actor than Tom Cruise,&#8221; Bruckheimer said while attending the Critics Choice Awards Sunday evening. &#8220;We&#8217;re very fortunate that he came back to do another &#8216;Top Gun&#8217; in &#8216;Maverick&#8217; and made it the worldwide success it&#8217;s become.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The producer went on to discuss the intense preparation that actors underwent to prepare for their “Maverick” roles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Our actors went through three months of training in various jets. First in a prop plane then an aerobatic prop then in a jet and finally in an F-18, so they can handle all the G forces that the plane puts on, eight or nine G&#8217;s a time,&#8221; Bruckheimer told the publication.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It worked perfectly because our actors in the plane when we actually filmed it was real and that&#8217;s amazing,” he continued. “The fact that they withstood those amounts of G&#8217;s and gave a great performance on top of it, it made it a worldwide hit.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The highly anticipated sequel to the 1986 action movie “Top Gun” grossed more than $1.4 billion at the global box office plus more than $690 million domestically, making it one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-jumps-from-helicopter-to-thank-fans-who-saw-top-gun-maverick-in-theaters-honor-of-a-lifetime"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In December, Cruise sent a special message to fans, thanking them for their support as he jumped out of a helicopter while on location in South Africa filming the upcoming film “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans are eager to see a follow-up to “Maverick,” but Bruckheimer said while it’s always a possibility, Cruise is focusing on the “Mission: Impossible” franchise for now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;He&#8217;s in the middle of shooting &#8216;Mission Impossible,&#8217; he&#8217;s got a lot of very difficult, hard stunts he&#8217;s doing. &#8230; It&#8217;s not the time to take attention away from what&#8217;s important to him right now,” the producer </span><a href="https://movieweb.com/top-gun-3-is-possible-but-not-yet-says-jerry-bruckheimer/#where-will-cruise-go-next-after-top-gun-and-mission-impossible"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when asked about the future of “Top Gun.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But he didn&#8217;t rule out the idea entirely. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We&#8217;ll have to wait and see,&#8221; he told Fox News over the weekend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director Joseph Kosinski also weighed in on the possibility, saying, “Is there another story that is compelling enough that we need to go back? It seems to me at the end of this film that Maverick has some gas left in the tank. He&#8217;s not settling down.&#8221;</span></p>


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