Tom Cruise

I Feel The Need, The Need For Top Gun Day

Submitted by phletch on Thu, 2010-05-13 11:27
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Certain holidays are for the dogs, especially when you learn that Boxer Day doesn't celebrate Mike Tyson and Flag Day has nothing to do with a nationwide capture the flag tournament. Fortunately there are lots of good holidays too, like the 4th of July and Talk Like A Pirate Day. Well you might not be aware but today is actually one of those amazing holidays. It's time to put on some aviators and set the Kenny Loggins to full blast, Happy Top Gun Day!

The official website of this powerful holiday answers the how to participate question.

  1. On May 13th update your social network profile picture / avatar to be anything Top Gun related. Use an image from our photo gallery or get creative and make your own. If you do make your own we’d love it if you could share it with us. If it’s good we’ll post it to our user gallery so other people can use it. 
  2. Use as many Top Gun lines throughout the day as possible. For example, say your friend Jim asks you what you’re doing on Friday night, you should respond: “Hey Jim, you stink”. 
  3. Wear aviator sunglasses. Cheap or expensive. Inside or out. Just don’t “Scratch one”! 
  4. Grab your Top Gun Day T-Shirt and “CALL THE BALL!” 
  5. Go to a bar…wearing a flight suit or aviator wings and order a glass of Hemlock. 
  6. Call your friends and tell them, “I’m going to Top Gun!” and then hangup. 
  7. Buy some rubber dog shit. 
  8. Don’t wear deodorant and only respond to the name, Slider. 
  9. Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! 

Use your imagination, there is NO wrong way to participate. If Slider can do it, so can you.

No idea how they don't mention Loggins or the ridiculously amazing soundtrack but that is clearly mandatory listening on Top Gun Day. Did I mention how much I love Kenny Loggins? That's right, but I held something back. I see some real genius in your flying, Kenny, but I can't say that in here. I was afraid that everyone on the interwebs would see right through me, and I just don't want anyone to know that I've fallen for you.

*cue Take My Breath Away *    [via film school rejects]

Tom Cruise Is Going On His Fourth Impossible Mission

Submitted by phletch on Wed, 2010-02-10 17:19
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Tom Cruise is going back to the Mission Impossible well for a fourth installment, and while this one won't be directed by JJ Abrams, the two will be producing together.  Also of interest is that the project is back at Paramount who had that famous split with Cruise several years ago when he was at his zaniest.

The intention is to make this Cruise's next film and start shooting by summer for a Memorial Day 2011 weekend release. And I can definitively say that, despite chatter to the contrary, IM4 will be very much of an Ethan Hunt pic with Cruise as the main character.  [via deadline hollywood]

So Tom Cruise wasn't going to do a cameo?  You don't say.  Awesome movie blog /film has some nice background on the project as well.

Here is what we know so far: Tom and JJ developted”a really cool idea” for a fourth adventure, which Abrams turned into “an insanely long outline”. Abrams employed Alias‘ scribes Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write a screenplay based on the treatment, which Abrams once joked “is probably longer than the script.” Applebaum and Nemec were well into the second act of a first draft when we last checked in (mid-January 2010), and Abrams seemed very pumped on the project. But who should direct?

A fair question, as there will clearly be a lot riding on this in the Cruise fame spectrum.  A summer blockbuster from an established franchise simply cannot be a failure if Maverick wants to regain all the adoration he once had.  We'll keep you posted.

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