'Top Gun: Maverick' Has One More Record to Break

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( box office [Top Gun: Maverick Has One More Record to Break]( It’s coming for the big boat movie. Photo: Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise didn’t want to make Top Gun 2. He’d long resisted Hollywood’s entreaties to reboot, remake, or “reinvent” the 1986 original. But after being persuasively pitched by director [Joseph Kosinski]( in 2017 — and personally calling Paramount to notify the studio it would be distributing the movie — the superstar threw himself into the process as a performer and producer, pulling multiple g’s (while operating his own cameras in the cockpit of an F-18) to reprise his role as brash flying ace Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in what is arguably the foundational film of his A-list career. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club:]( All Tea, All Shade • [Southern Charm:]( Marcie’s Playground • [The Old Man:]( Partners in Crime • [Stranger Things:]( Father-Daughter Dance • [Stranger Things:]( The Fourth Gate • [The Boys:]( Knowing You’re the Hero Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [Busy Philipps Arrested at Supreme Court Protesting for Reproductive Rights “For equality!”]( By Rebecca Alter 2. [Celebrities Respond to the Supreme Court’s Overturning of Roe v. Wade Including Viola Davis, Taylor Swift, and Ariana DeBose.]( By Jason P. Frank 3. [India’s Zee5 Isn’t Perfect, But It Speaks the Languages The streamer may be a little messy, but it’s the best option to watch the subcontinent’s rich film output.]( By Siddhant Adlakha 4. [City Girls and Usher Invite Us to Cascade and the Cookout In the music video for their new summer bop, “Good Love.”]( By Zoe Guy [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( Don’t worry, these clues aren’t upside down. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. [Watch House of Gucci, available this weekend]( on Prime Video — because nothing says America or Fourth of July like a nouveau-riche rise-and-fall tale. [Read more from Vulture]( Introducing Dinner Party, a lively new evening newsletter about everything that just happened. [Sign up]( to get it every weeknight. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved