For the week that ended on November 12th, Paramount Home Media Distribution's Top Gun: Maverick remained on top of both the the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts in its second week, while Top Gun 2-Movie Collection slid to third place. Top Gun itself may also have come top of the global box office in 1986, but when Rolling Stone magazine compiled its 100 greatest films of the 1980s this March, and Time Out compiled its 50 greatest this May, it didn't appear in either round-up.

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Recording mixers Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor worked in two theaters with different audio configurations to complete the mixes, which took place in June and July 2020.In March, filming in the Cascade Mountains was completed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington, where routes were scouted by helicopter and the L-39 before filming the F/A-18s.

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Actor Matthew Modine turned down the role of Pete Mitchell because he felt the film's pro-military stance went against his politics. Journalist and former F-14 RIO Ward Carroll considered the movie iconic and culturally relevant, even jokingly referring to it as "the greatest movie ever made". On August 26, 2021, the first 13 minutes of the film were previewed at CinemaCon along with a new trailer with Tom Cruise marking his presence virtually at the event.By March 2020, Paramount moved the film up two days early on June 24, 2020, [137] and it was then moved to December 23 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization. Final sound editing and mixing n Dolby Atmos and IMAX was handled by London-based Soundbyte Studios [100] and Twickenham Film Studios. Compare and contrast Cruise's attitude with that of his namesake, Tom Hanks – perhaps his only serious competition for the title of " Last Hollywood Movie Star". Full Metal Jacket' star Matthew Modine explains why he turned down 'Top Gun,' 'Back to the Future': The actor has said no plenty of times — with good reason," Fox News (July 7, 2020).