Top Gun: Maverick director explains why Tom Cruise is so similar to his fighter pilot character.

According to the director of Top Gun: Maverick, the pilot flying Tom Cruise said there was one scene he would never do again.

One moment in Top Gun: Maverick even shook a professional fighter pilot.

Top Gun: Maverick had a very specific goal in mind when planning the movie's action.

If it's the end of October, it must be time for the annual BloodList, which highlights the most-liked unproduced screenplays and pilots in the horror, thriller, sci-fi and dark comedy genres. Created in 2009 by manager-producer Kailey Marsh, the BloodList celebrates its 12th edition this year, though Marsh is mixing things up for the 2020 edition. Rather than focus on projects that are already set up around town from represented writers, the 2020 BloodList is shining a spotlight on its Fresh Blood creators -- the unrepresented genre writers who are just waiting to be discovered. This year'…

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STXfilms has released a trailer for its upcoming aerial thriller Horizon Line, which boasts Jaume Collet-Serra as an executive producer. Allison Williams and Alexander Dreymon star as former lovers traveling to a mutual friend's tropical island wedding aboard a small plane when the pilot (Keith David) dies mid-flight, leaving them stranded in the air with no idea what they're doing and a storm fast approaching. Mikael Marcimain directed the indie film, which was produced by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, The script was written by Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken, who also wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane. That …

Hannibal is a show that, even as I was watching it on the air, confused me as to how it could actually be on the air. The NBC horror-opera aired for three seasons under the tutelage of Bryan Fuller, who yielded some of the most violent, psychologically upsetting, and generally fucked imagery I've ever seen on television, network or not. And as Collider's very own Steve Weintraub recently learned in an in-depth, exclusive 90-minute interview with Fuller and star Hugh Dancy, this singular creative vision changed dramatically pretty early in its shape. Based on Thomas …

EA has released the full Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay trailer for the highly anticipated upcoming title. This game is rather different from Star Wars: Battlefront and is very much a high-flying game set against the backdrop of space in the Star Wars universe. Your journey begins in a single-player story as two combat pilots flying for both the Empire and the New Republic. You switch back and forth, getting the ability to use different kinds of weapons and fly different kinds of ships (although I do wonder, do you get to then decide who wins in the end?). …

Amazon has released a new trailer for its upcoming Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie 7500 and it looks pretty damn good to me. I had a strong feeling about this one based simply on the German-language footage we recently posted, and I'm excited for you guys to get a look at this aerial thriller when it hits Amazon Prime Video on June 19. Gordon-Levitt plays Tobias, a young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris. Shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, wounding both the pilot and Tobias, who swiftly …

Last September, Akiva Goldsman struck a first-look deal at MGM that called for him to write and executive produce a series adaptation of Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and in a recent interview with Collider, he revealed that Games of Thrones helmer Alan Taylor will direct the pilot. First published in 1970, Ringworld was followed by The Ringworld Engineers in 1980, The Ringworld Throne in 1996, Ringworld's Children in 2004 and 2012's Fate of the Worlds, which Niven co-wrote with Edward M. Lerner. Fate of Worlds also serves a sequel to the four …

Even after 30 years, the spell cast over you as you watch the pilot of David Lynch's short-lived, cult-hit TV series Twin Peaks is one you won't want to shake off. To this day, I can think of a better pilot which also marked a major paradigm shift in the way we watch television to this day. The Twin Peaks pilot set the stage for a television-watching experience unlike any other that had been seen in primetime. The pilot also inspired numerous copycats, sparking the mind of writers and showrunners for years to come. There …

Television is about to get 200% spicier as Jon Bernthal nabs the lead in Showtime's American Gigolo adaptation pilot. If the American Gigolo pilot moves into a series at Showtime, Bernthal would return to TV in a major way after star-making turns in TV shows like AMC's The Walking Dead and Netflix's Marvel series The Punisher. [caption id="attachment_880376" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Paramount Pictures[/caption] It's been a long road to a pilot order for American Gigolo. This TV adaptation has been in the works since 2014. If the pilot is successful, …

After a five year hiatus from being a series regular on television, Friends and Cougar Town star Courteney Cox returns to the small screen. And this time, she's making it an extra spooky affair. Cox has been tapped to star in the Starz horror-comedy pilot Shining Vale, playing a woman who just might be possessed. The show stars Cox as Patricia “Pat” Phelps, a wild child who grew up addicted to drugs and alcohol, then turned her life around by writing about her wild child life and subsequent recovery. Now a successful women's empowerment author, Pat is …

With films like Uncut Gems and Good Time, the Safdie Brothers -- Benny and Josh -- have crafted a relentless tone of propulsive cinematic anxiety. With his magnum opus Comedy Central series Nathan For You, Nathan Fielder made us all cringe and feel copious amounts of anxious empathy for the real folks he convinced into doing terrible things. Now, Deadline reports that these three folks -- the Safdies and Fielder -- are teaming up for a Showtime pilot called The Curse. And I'm a bit concerned that it's going to be, oh I dunno, the most anxiety-inducing piece of content ever …

It's been six years since the unexpected passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Although we will never see a new performance from the celebrated actor, we are now able to see one of his final performances which has previously gone unseen. On Friday, director/writer/actor John Cameron Mitchell released the previously unaired pilot for Showtime's Happyish which originally starred Hoffman. Mitchell announced the release of the unaired pilot on Instagram. Filmed just three months before Hoffman's passing in February 2014, the Mitchell-directed pilot has never seen the light of day. In his Instagram announcement, Mitchell explained, "…

Fox has ordered a TV drama pilot about a group of students who attempt to reenact the 1985 movie The Goonies.

Fox orders a pilot for a Goonies-inspired series about a teacher who, along with three students, attempts to remake the film shot-for-shot.

Did you see Be Kind Rewind? Goodness, I love that movie. Directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black and Yasiin Bey, it's a piece of quirky, magical-realist heaven, in which a band of misfits comes together to remake their favorite movies with delightfully handmade props, amateur actors, and tons of spirit. What if you took that premise, turned it into a series, and made it solely about The Goonies? Then you might have something close to a very intriguing pilot in the works at Fox. Deadline reports that the as-of-yet untitled pilot, written by Sarah …

Ned Stark's violent death in the Game of Thrones season 1 finale episode was teased in the HBO show's pilot episode during the direwolf scene.