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Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick release pushed to Dec 2020


Published : 03 Apr 2020 06:40 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 05:49 PM

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise on Friday announced that the release of his much-awaited flick 'Top Gun Maverick' has been pushed from June 2020 to December 2020. The 57-year-old actor took to Twitter to make the announcement about the sequel to his film. "I know many of you have waited 34 years. Unfortunately, it will be a little longer. 

Top Gun: Maverick will fly this December. Stay safe, everyone," he tweeted. 'Top Gun: Maverick', that has come 34 years after its predecessor, will now release in December 2020. 

In the film, Cruise is a veteran test pilot who goes by the name Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. He is assigned the job of training a group of graduates from the USAF Top Gun program for a highly specialised and risky mission.

Most of the season's top movies have in the last week departed the summer. With the pandemic quickly spreading, it remains uncertain when movie theaters will reopen, or how much appetite moviegoers will have to visit cinemas when they initially reopen their doors.

Summer is typically Hollywood's most lucrative time of year when the studios unleash a barrage of sequels, superhero films and action movies. Last year, summer ticket sales accounted for $4.3 billion in U.S. and Canadian theaters.

Recent postponements include “Wonder Woman 1984,” “F9” and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife." And a handful of films have been taken off the calendar, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights,” Marvel's “Black Widow” and the Tom Hanks' World War II drama “Greyhound.”