{"id":1847623,"date":"2023-02-15T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847623"},"modified":"2023-02-15T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:51:24","slug":"you-saved-hollywoods-a-spielberg-praises-cruise-for-top-gun-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-saved-hollywoods-a-spielberg-praises-cruise-for-top-gun-maverick\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Saved Hollywood\u2019s A**\u2019: Spielberg Praises Cruise For \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-saved-hollywoods-a-spielberg-praises-cruise-for-top-gun-maverick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Hollywood director Steven Spielberg complimented Tom Cruise at Monday\u2019s Academy Awards luncheon, telling him that his film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d Hollywood may have been saved by this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d It has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl2500036097\/?ref_=bo_yld_table_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gross<\/a> Since its May 2022 release, $1.48 Billion has been spent worldwide. Other films were successful in 2022. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/releasegroup\/gr1700221445\/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jurassic World: Dominion<\/a>,\u201d It opened in June. Since then, it has brought in more than $1Billion worldwide. \u201c<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>\u201d And \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/releasegroup\/gr101863941\/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minions: The Rise of Gru<\/a>\u201d They have taken in nearly $1 billion since their release in May and July, respectively. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/releasegroup\/gr1943818757\/?ref_=bo_ydw_table_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avatar: The Way Of Water<\/a>,\u201d The company, which opened in December 2009, outperformed all others, earning more than $2.2 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saved Hollywood\u2019s ass, and you might have saved theatrical distribution,\u201d Cruise was told by Spielberg \u201cSeriously, \u2019Maverick\u2019 might have saved the entire theatrical industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steven Spielberg telling Tom Cruise, &#8220;Steven Spielberg&#8221; \u201cyou saved hollywood\u2019s ass. and, you might have saved theatrical distribution. seriously. MAVERICK might have saved the entire theatrical industry.\u201d I must lie down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nYbWbgadM7\">pic.twitter.com\/nYbWbgadM7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 amanda (@marisatomay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marisatomay\/status\/1625403462635626497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cruise demanded that the film be released in theaters and not on streaming services. These have boomed ever since the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They have collaborated on two films together: \u201cMinority Report\u201d And \u201cWar Of The Worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d Nominated for Best Picture, alongside \u201cAll Quiet On The Western Front,\u201d \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d \u201cThe Banshees Of Inisherin,\u201d \u201cElvis,\u201d \u201cEverything Everywhere All At Once,\u201d Spielberg\u2019s semi-autobiographical \u201cThe Fabelmans,\u201d \u201cTar,\u201d Triangle Of Sadness,\u201d and \u201cWomen Talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Spielberg: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/movies\/steven-spielberg-the-fabelmans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> December \u201cThey\u00a0were paid off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I\u2019m talking about. And then everything started to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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\u2019s going to have to come from all of us \u2014 the WGA [the Writers Guild], the DGA [the Directors Guild], and eventually the academy,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertain 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? \u2026 We don\u2019t want these chains to file Chapter 11. We want theaters to stay open,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood director Steven Spielberg complimented Tom Cruise at Monday\u2019s Academy Awards luncheon, telling him that his film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d may well have saved Hollywood. \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has grossed $1.48 billion worldwide since its release in May 2022. Other films did well in 2022; \u201cJurassic World: Dominion,\u201d which opened in June, has raked in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1847626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7197,8779,7441,7012,5893,8780,7360,5518,10268,6540],"class_list":["post-1847623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-a","tag-top","tag-cruise","tag-gun","tag-hollywoods","tag-maverick","tag-praises","tag-saved","tag-spielberg","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}