Steven Spielberg Accidentally Admits Just How Terrible a State Hollywood Is In, Praises Tom Cruise and “Top Gun: Maverick” for Saving “Hollywood’s Ass”
Steven Spielberg seems to have unintentionally admitted Hollywood’s terrible state by praising Tom Cruise. Maverick: Top Gun Thank you for saving Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 07: (L-R) Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg attends the Los Angeles premiere of West Side Story, held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on December 07, 2021. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Image for 20th Century Studios).
In a video uploaded to Instagram by director K of The Elephant Whisperersartiki Gonsalves, Spielberg greets Cruise before telling him. “You know, you saved Hollywood’s ass, and you might have saved theatrical distribution.”
Spielberg repeated the feat again. “Seriously, Top Gun: Maverick might have saved the entire theatrical industry.”
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Maverick: Top Gun For a total global gross of $1.486 trillion, he earned $718.7 millions in domestic theaters and $767.4 million in international theaters.
It was the most popular domestic movie in 2022. It’s closest competition was Wakanda Forever: Black Panther Domestically, the film earned $438.2 Million. The Way of Water: Avatar Domestically, it was $425.5 million. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Revenues: $411.3 millions
Tom Cruise is Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
Internationally, Maverick: Top Gun fell behind The Way of Water: AvatarThe film grossed $1.565 million. It still beat Jurassic World: Dominion which made $626.9million. The Rise of Gru: Minions$569.8 Million was earned internationally by the movie.
The film was only second behind the movie “The Greatest Grosser” in 2022. The Way of Water: Avatar. It grossed $2.2 billion. It beat out Jurassic World: DominionThe city of, which brought in just under $1 billion. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessThe film grossed $952 millions.
Tom Cruise is Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
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YouTuber Price of Reason speculates that Spielberg’s comments don’t just pertain to the business and numbers side of Top Gun: Maverick’s success.
He posits that, “I think people know that Top Gun: Maverick is one of the only movies in recent years that didn’t focus on a bunch of identity politics, or trendy agendas, or anything like that. It just gave the people a nice wholesome movie. Something with a positive male figure. Something that we don’t see often and people responded well to it.”
Adds Price of Reason “One can only hope that this type of acknowledgement perhaps can serve as a wake-up call to Hollywood because if they want to continue to exist, and to make money they have to give people what they want.”
The Price of Reason was then noted. “The reason why I also see this as a really big win: take into consideration how Top Gun: Maverick was received when it came out. You had a bunch of articles coming out and trying to wrap their head around why this movie was doing well and trying to explain it’s not good to be patriotic and all this other stuff.”
“The bottom line is this: Tom Cruise is one of the only stars in Hollywood that he has the type of pull that he could just make the movie exactly the way he wanted it. He also insisted on releasing it in a theater. And at the end of the day, people reacted because they liked what they were seeing,” he declared.
Monica Barbaro, Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer Films on the set Top Gun: Maverick.
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Price of Reason was later stated in the video. “Basically, Tom Cruise just exposed the whole Hollywood system and the face that somebody like Steven Spielberg is acknowledging the work that Tom Cruise did with this movie only shows that perhaps internally they’re starting to recognize a few things or understand a few things.”
“I feel at the end that level-headed business people that want to make money will ultimately have to understand that if they want to survive as an industry they have to give the people what they want. And Top Gun: Maverick was a movie that people wanted,” he reiterated.
JENNIFER CONNELLY PLAYS PENNY BENJAMIN, TOM CRUISE PLAYS APT. PETE “MAVERICK” MITCHELL IN TOP GUNS – MAVERICK FROM PARAMOUNT PICTTURES, SKYDANCE and JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILM.
As Price of Reason Notes Maverick: Top Gun The overarching Hollywood narrative that woke identity politics sells was the reason they flew in the face. The Eternals, Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings?, and Charlie’s Angels The COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for the failure of the film at the box office.
The success of Maverick: Top Gun.
Tom Cruise is Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures, Skydance, and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
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As for Price of Reason’s optimism that Hollywood might course correct, every indication coming out of the major studios points to that not being the case. Bob Iger, the Disney CEO returned, stated that their films and television programs would reflect this wokeness.
Iger said, “This company has been telling stories for a hundred years, and those stories have had a meaningful, positive impact on the world. And one of the reasons that they’ve had a meaningful, positive impact is one of our core values is inclusion, acceptance, and tolerance. And we can’t lose that. We just can’t lose that.”
The so-called “Don’t Say Gay” Iger stated that Disney would continue to promote legislation “inclusion,” However, he suggested that the company should strike a deal. “delicate balance” “listen to [its] audience” “have respect for the people that [it’s] serving.” This is a retreat. pic.twitter.com/bZBnQdm616
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) November 29, 2022
James Gunn’s newly announced DCU slate also appears to be heavily influenced with the woke identity politics agenda.
Chuck Dixon, long-time Batman writer observed: “Some of the things seem extremely underwhelming. Some of the things seem to exist only to check boxes. Quite frankly, I don’t care. I know you don’t want to hear that, but I don’t care. I’ve never seen a DC movie, DC-based movie that I’ve liked ever. And I don’t think I’ll ever see one.”
“And now that they’ve moved far, far away from the source material I really just have no interest,” He said.
Even Spielberg accepted woke identity politics. West Side Story film. Spielberg spoke to IGN. “I didn’t want to subtitle any of the Spanish out of respect for the inclusivity of our intentions to hire a totally Latino, Latinx cast to play the Shark boys and girls.”
He elaborated, “That was a mandate that I put down to Cindy Tolan, who cast the movie, that I’m not going to entertain any auditions of anybody who isn’t… Parents or grandparents or themselves from Latinx countries, especially Puerto Rico.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 29: Bob Iger (L) and Steven Spielberg attend the New York premiere of West Side Story on November 29, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images 20th Century Studios).
“We have 20 performers in our film from Puerto Rico or they are Nuyoricans,” According to the director. “And that was very important. And that goes hand in hand for not subtitling the Spanish.”
Then he declared: “If I subtitled the Spanish, I’d simply be doubling down on the English and giving English the power over the Spanish.”
“And this was not going to happen on this film. I needed to respect the language enough not to subtitle it,” He concluded.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 29: (L-R) Ariana DeBose, Steven Spielberg, and Rachel Zegler attend the New York premiere of West Side Story on November 29, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images 20th Century Studios).
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