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Daily Mail
4 days ago
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- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Tom Cruise's mega meltdown in Top Gun 3 meeting over insane plot twist involving Val Kilmer
When Val Kilmer reprised his role as Lieutenant Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky in Top Gun: Maverick, the film's star called it 'special' and 'beautiful.' Indeed, Cruise had allegedly been the 'driving force' behind the actor's return to the movie franchise three decades after the pair first took flight as US Naval aviators in the 1986 blockbuster.
Otago Daily Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Obituary: Val Kilmer, actor
Val Kilmer films Kill Me Again in a casino in Las Vegas February 12, 1989 Las Vegas, Nevada . For some he was difficult to work with, for others he was a dedicated craftsman, but actor Val Kilmer was a performer everyone in Hollywood had an opinion on. A dedicated method actor, Kilmer's more extreme efforts at preparation included taking an ice bath before playing Doc Holliday's death from tuberculosis in Tombstone, wearing leather pants all the time and asking castmates and crew to only refer to him as "Jim" when playing Doors frontman Jim Morrison in The Doors. The Los Angeles native trained at Juilliard and quickly picked up theatre roles before making his film debut in 1984 spy spoof Top Secret! One of his more iconic roles — hotshot pilot Tom "Iceman" Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise in 1986's Top Gun — almost did not happen. Kilmer had turned the part down, but relented after the director promised his character would improve from the initial script. By the early 1990s, Kilmer had made a name for himself as a dashing leading man, but his career almost foundered on the rocks of 1995's Batman Forever — his sole turn as the Caped Crusader was much derided, something which the actor blamed on a suffocating Batsuit. Kilmer subsequently mixed arthouse and big box office films, as well as pursuing passion projects: Citizen Twain, a one-man stage show where he played author Samuel Clemens, was one notable example. A talented musician and published poet, Kilmer was also a visual artist. Val Kilmer died on April 1 aged 65. — APL/agencies
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Movies to see this week: 'The Doors,' 'North By Northwest,' 'Hundreds of Beavers'
Showcases, a new midnight movie classic, and a chance to see one of the late Val Kilmer's best roles highlight the movie calendar this week. Here are the repertory movies you can catch around the Twin Cities during the week of May 21. Thursday, May 22, at the Walker Art Center The new film from Vera Brunner-Sung and producers Kazua Melissa Vang and Yeej, Bitterroot, has played in town a couple of times already, with screenings during the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and last week at the Walker Art Center. This week, Vang and Yeej will curate a showcase of local Hmong artists and filmmakers, continuing some of the themes from their acclaimed film, which was shot in Missoula but featured talent from the Twin Cities Hmong community on-screen and in the production. 725 Vineland Pl., Minneapolis (free) Thursday, May 22, at Emagine Willow Creek Biopics on iconic musicians have become commonplace and are often a bit paint-by-numbers. The expected boredom has sullied expectations for the subgenre, even when there are thrilling examples of the form out there, like Oliver Stone's The Doors. The late Val Kilmer fully embodies Jim Morrison, singing, moving, and looking like him. The movie moves quickly at times, tracing Morrison's life from film school up through his death at 27 in Paris. 9900 Shelard Pkwy., Plymouth ($12.59) Saturday, May 24, at The Parkway Theater Hundreds of Beavers feels like what might have happened if a silent film director from the 1920s grew up on Adult Swim cartoons and made a Bugs Bunny-inspired comedy. With almost no spoken dialogue, a 19th-century fur trapper is tormented by rabbits, woodpeckers, raccoons, fish, and geese out on the frontier. Worst of all are the beavers, of which, you may have guessed, there are hundreds. With intentionally absurd special effects, he goes to war with a deluge of men in beaver costumes. It's already becoming a midnight movie classic, even though it really only hit theaters in 2024. 4814 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis ($16.73–$20) Sunday, May 25, at Emagine Willow Creek Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst) doesn't pull punches in his films. Rather, he tends to set you up for a few final jabs that can be brutally stunning. That's the case in The Handmaiden, which starts as a dark drama when a Korean girl is hired to be the handmaiden to a rich Japanese heiress. The young woman, however, is actually a thief who has been hired to rob and seduce the heiress. Things get twisted and messy. 9900 Shelard Pkwy., Plymouth ($12.59) Monday, May 26, and Wednesday, May 28, at Heights Theater The Hitchcock Festival at the Heights Theater is long gone, but there's still more from the master of suspense coming up. Some of Alfred Hitchcock's most iconic films have scenes that burn so brightly in memory that those scenes stand in for the entirety of the film and can obscure their greatness. North By Northwest can feel that way. Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies. It looks like a simple case of mistaken identity, but things go wrong over and over, pulling him deeper and deeper into danger. That includes falling for Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). It's tense and delightfully frustrating every step of the way, especially if your memory of the movie is a bit obscured by its iconic plane scene. 3951 Central Ave. NE, Columbia Heights ($19–$19.75)More movies screening this week in the Twin Cities: May 21: 28 Days Later (2002) at Alamo Drafthouse, AMC Southdale, Emagine Willow Creek, and Oakdale Cinema May 21: Cooley High (1975) at Alamo Drafthouse May 21: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) at AMC Inver Grove, Emagine White Bear, Oakdale Cinema, Parkwood Cinema, St. Michael Cinema, and West End Cinema May 21: Labyrinth (1986) at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, and Emagine White Bear May 21: The Wiz (1978) at AMC Southdale, Oakdale Cinema and West End Cinema May 21: Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) (1993) at The Main Cinema, part of the Minnesota Cuban Film Festival May 21: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) at Edina Mann Theatres May 21: Pride & Prejudice (2005) at St. Michael Cinema May 21: The Unborn II (1994) at The Trylon Cinema May 21: Moonstruck (1987) at The Parkway Theater May 21: Crossroads (2002) at Alamo Drafthouse May 21: Tall Tales (2025) at The Main Cinema May 22: Hmong Filmmaker Showcase at Walker Art Center May 22: Making Mr. Right (1987) in 35mm at The Trylon Cinem May 22: Phffft (1954) at Heights Theater May 22: Gather (2020) at Minneapolis Institute of Art (free) May 22: The Apartment (1960) at Grandview Theatres May 24: Star Wars: Episode VI - The Return of the Jedi (1983) at The Parkway Theater May 24: Hundreds of Beavers (2022) w/ costume contest at The Parkway Theater May 24: The '80s Action Extravaganza II: The Quickening at The Trylon Cinema May 24: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) midnight screening at The Parkway Theater May 25: Larry McDonough Quintet Jazz Music + Movie Series presents Miles Ahead (2015) at The Parkway Theater May 25: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) at Roxy's Cabaret May 25–27: Young Frankenstein (1978) at The Trylon Cinema May 25: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) at Roxy's Cabaret May 25 and 28: Blazing Saddles (1974) at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, and Emagine White Bear May 25: Bree Way: Promise Witness Remembrance at Minneapolis Institute of Art May 25 and 29: Twilight (2008) at Grandview Theatre May 26: Terminating Mystery Movie at Alamo Drafthouse May 26 and 28: Jaws (1975) at Alamo Drafthouse May 26: Silver Bullet (1995) at Emagine Willow Creek May 27: The Vourdalak (2024) at Alamo Drafthouse May 27: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) in 35mm at The Parkway Theater
News24
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News24
Tom Cruise came dangerously close to tragedy in SA while filming the new Mission epic
The Mission Impossible film crew had fears that Tom Cruise was about to die after he appeared to pass out on the wing of a stunt plane over South Africa. Cruise, 62, is known for doing his own stunts. 'Tom had pushed himself to the point that he was so physically exhausted, he couldn't get back up off the wing,' said director Christopher McQuarrie. Tom Cruise's film crew on his latest Mission: Impossible epic feared the actor was about to die after he appeared to pass out on the wing of a stunt plane over South Africa. The 62-year-old, who does his own stunts and was flying the biplane alone, was laid out flat on the wing after spending 22 minutes out of the cockpit - 10 more than safety guidelines allowed, his director Christopher McQuarrie told a masterclass at the Cannes film festival, where Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning premiered on Wednesday. 'When you leave the cockpit of the plane, it's like stepping onto the surface of another planet,' McQuarrie said. 'The wind is hitting you in excess of 140 miles an hour (225 kph) coming off the propeller. You're breathing, but only physically. You're not actually getting oxygen. 'Tom had pushed himself to the point that he was so physically exhausted, he couldn't get back up off the wing. He was lying on the wing, his arms hanging over the front. We could not tell if he was conscious or not,' said the American filmmaker, who has shot the four last movies of the franchise. READ | Tom Cruise honours 'dear friend' Val Kilmer's legacy at CinemaCon with moment of silence Cruise, a trained acrobatics pilot, had agreed a hand signal to show if he was in trouble, McQuarrie said. 'You can't do this when you're unconscious,' the director told an audience at Cannes, with Cruise sitting beside him nodding sheepishly. To make matters worse, the plane had only six minutes of fuel left. But the star finally stirred. 'We watched Tom as he pulled himself up and stuck his head in the cockpit so that he could replenish the oxygen in his body, and then climb up into the cockpit and bring the plane safely down to land. 'No one on Earth can do that but Tom Cruise,' he said to rapturous applause. Asked about how he dealt with the fear, Cruise pointed to the years of preparation that went into the movies, which he compared to the workings of 'a Swiss watch.' But in the end, 'I like the feeling (of fear). It's just an emotion for me. It's something that is not paralysing.' 'I'm like, 'Oh, that's exciting'... I don't mind kind of encountering the unknown,' insisting that 'this is what I dreamed of doing as a kid.' It was far from the only scare the pair had on the $400 million epic, the eighth in the franchise known for its dizzying set pieces and heart-stopping action scenes. 'No way to test that thing' With fans fearing that The Final Reckoning title meant it would be the last in the series, McQuarrie said the plane scene was not the only one that could have ended everything. One of the new movie's most dramatic moments involves Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, diving inside a sunk Russian nuclear submarine in the Bering Sea. McQuarrie said it took two and a half years to build the set in London. 'Remember that when you're watching Tom inside this semi-submerged rotating room inside the submarine that is housed inside a 60-foot diameter, 1000-ton, 360-degree rotating, fully submersible steel gimbal in an 8.5-million-litre tanker. And he's inside it,' he said. 'And what you're watching is us testing it. Because there is no way to test that thing.' 'We built a model, and we put a little plastic figure and a bunch of torpedoes in it and rotated it once, and they smashed the little plastic figure.' Neither Cruise nor McQuarrie would confirm or deny if the new movie was the final Mission: Impossible, with Cruise calling it the 'culmination of three decades of work.' The film, one of the most expensive ever made, had to struggle through Covid lockdowns and two Hollywood strikes. But the wait appears to be worth it, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which quoted critics emerging from the first press screenings calling it 'astonishing,' 'jaw-dropping,' and 'just insane,' the 'best action movie of the summer.' The film is being released in India, Australia, and South Korea this weekend, with audiences in Europe and the Middle East having to wait until 21 May and those in North America until 23 May.
Al Bawaba
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Tom Cruise reunites with Val Kilmer for Top Gun
Published May 11th, 2025 - 01:12 GMT Tom Cruise found it "very special" to have Val Kilmer return for 'Top Gun: Maverick' amid the late actor's health issues. Tom Cruise found it "very special" to have Val Kilmer return for 'Top Gun: Maverick'. The 62-year-old actor reprised his 1986 role of Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell for the 2022 sequel and found it "beautiful" that his co-star - who died last month from complications related to pneumonia following a long period of ill health - was able to make a brief comeback as his rival-turned-ally Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky, which was a "joyous" experience for them both. Tom told Sight and Sound magazine: "To come back all those years later, and it was amazing being on set for 'Top Gun: Maverick' because it was like time had not passed. We were laughing and it was joyous. "And then we started acting and it's just, you see it… he became Iceman. The power that this guy has, even not saying anything, to become that character. You see how even the sniff that he gave. He was Iceman. "And you saw the dynamic between these friends. It was very special, to say the least, for me personally. "I just tell people… you take Iceman from the first film and you look at it here, that whole journey, he became Iceman. And he didn't even have to speak."That's what he's able to do. Beautiful, really beautiful. A gift that he had and that he shared with all of us.' But Tom revealed things could have been very different because Val had originally turned down the role of Iceman in the original 'Top Gun' film. He said: 'I felt so grateful that he decided to make the film. We did a lot to get him in the movie. Originally, he just didn't want to make the movie, 'I don't want to be a supporting, I want to star in films.' "I was calling his agent, and Tony Scott was hunting him down and meeting in an elevator with Val, and he was like, 'Please, Val, please.' 'You just see what a great actor, charismatic guy he was. And in that scene, what I love about what he did and how he played it, he just knew that tone to hit. "He had to play it so you wanted these guys to be friends in the end. Do you know what I'm saying? And I remember those scenes like they were yesterday, acting with him, where he did the bite thing. You know when you're acting with somebody and you just see they're just on fire. It's exhilarating. I love when the scene just goes to a different place. "If you look at 'Top Gun', I think he's in the movie maybe ten minutes. That's the impact of an artist like that." Via Copyright � 2009-2022 BANG Media International
