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Never been much of a Plane Guy — I leave that to Sir Charlie Hall, master of flight simulators . But Top Gun: Maverick might just leave my head permanently in the clouds. A new trailer teases the long-awaited sequel’s ground drama, and more importantly, the high-speed aerial stunts star Tom Cruise ( The Mummy ) has cooked up for the film, which hits theaters this spring after many delays.

Top Gun: Maverick finds Cruise’s character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell graduating from rebel test pilot to instructor, leading a team of new TOPGUN hot shots in what a Paramount synopsis calls “a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.” The new squad includes Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), aka “Rooster,” the son of Goose, who was killed during a training exercise in the original 1986 film. Maverick confronting his past, deepest fears, new enemies, yadda yadda, PLANES.

“Everything you see in this film is real,” Cruise said way back at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con , where he premiered the first footage from the film. “We’re working with the Navy. I wanted to give you an experience of being inside that aircraft.”

Mission potentially accomplished. Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski ( Oblivion , Tron: Legacy ) seemed to have a found a modern way to innovate on Tony Scott’s original Top Gun action by mounting cameras inside real planes and soaring them in every which way. Even on the small screen, it looks quite grand. Am I a Plane Guy now? I might be a Plane Guy. Charlie, boot up Flight Simulator .

Top Gun: Maverick hits theaters and IMAX on May 27.

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Tom Cruise Reveals ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Official Title

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Tom Cruise ‘s seventh globe-trotting journey as Ethan Hunt will be called “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”

Paramount Pictures revealed the tentpole’s official title during its Thursday presentation at CinemaCon , the annual trade show for theater owners. Cruise, who is usually a regular presence at the convention in Las Vegas, wasn’t in attendance. Though in fairness, he attended last year’s CinemaCon to talk up the death-defying stunts in “ Mission: Impossible 7 ” before the movie’s release date was pushed back by a year due to COVID-19. At that time, he was most excited about driving a motorcycle off a cliff in Norway, an antic he called “far and away the most dangerous thing I’ve attempted.”

Audiences got a sneak preview of that anxiety-inducing moment — and more — in the high-stakes trailer, which hasn’t been made available to the public. His stunts have gotten so outrageous that everyone in the room laughed when Ethan Hunt nose dives off a cliff while on his motorcycle and then free-falls into the abyss. General audiences will be able to watch the teaser in front of “Top Gun: Maverick,” which hits theaters on May 27.

Though plot details for “MI7” are mostly ambiguous, Hunt and his team of operatives are again faced with an existential threat. The trailer was stuffed with action-packed footage, including vintage-looking trains flying off tracks, deadly emerald-colored clouds of biochemical weapons, and plenty of brutal street combat.

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“You’re fighting to save an ideal that doesn’t exist…. never did,” Henry Czerny’s character Eugene Kittridge, the former director of the IMF, tells Hunt. “You need to pick a side.”

Since he was not at Caesars Palace, Cruise sent along a pre-recorded video that was basically unintelligible because the actor was hanging from an airplane. “Please enjoy,” he told the audience. “And hey! Let’s try to have a great summer.”

Cruise loomed large over Paramount’s three-hour presentation; the studio devoted nearly the entire time to screening his other high-profile blockbuster, “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to the 1986 action adventure. Thursday’s screening marks the first time a wide audience will see the movie, which is going to the Cannes Film Festival next month.

Christopher McQuarrie returns to direct “Mission: Impossible – 7” after steering the franchise’s fifth and sixth installment — 2015’s “Rogue Nation” and 2018’s “Fallout.” The latter became the highest-grossing entry in the long-running series, grossing nearly $800 million at the global box office.

The “Mission: Impossible” films have grossed over $3.5 billion at the worldwide box office since 1996. The popular spy series hit a low with 2006’s “Mission: Impossible III,” which generated only $398 million worldwide. But Cruise successfully revived the property with 2011’s “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” which earned $695 million globally and stood as the top-earning entry until “Fallout” was released.

Along with Cruise, who once again stars as an IMF agent known to occasionally hang off airplanes and skyscrapers, “MI” veterans Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Frederick Schmidt will also return. Newcomers to the franchise include Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss and Cary Elwes.

“MI7,” which has been delayed several times during the pandemic, is scheduled to open in theaters on July 14, 2023. “Dead Reckoning Part Two,” as it will presumably be called, is set to be released on June 28, 2024.

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In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the breathless, gravity and logic-defying “ Top Gun ” sequel that somehow makes all the sense in the world despite landing more than three decades after the late Tony Scott ’s original, an admiral refers to Tom Cruise ’s navy aviator Pete Mitchell—call sign “ Maverick ”—as “the fastest man alive.” It’s a chuckle-inducing scene that recalls one in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” when Alec Baldwin ’s high-ranking Alan Hunley deems Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, “the living manifestation of destiny.” In neither of these instances are Cruise’s co-stars exclusively referring to his make-believe screen personas. They are also (or rather, primarily) talking about the ongoing legacy of Cruise the actor himself.

Truth be told, our fearless and ever-handsome action hero earns both appraisals with a generous side of applause, being one of the precious remnants of bona-fide movie superstardoms of yore, a slowly dwindling they-don’t-make-'em-like-they-used-to notion of immortality these days. Indeed, Cruise’s consistent commitment to Hollywood showmanship—along with the insane levels of physical craft he unfailingly puts on the table by insisting to do his own stunts—I would argue, deserves the same level of high-brow respect usually reserved for the fully-method sorts such as Daniel Day-Lewis . Even if you somehow overlook the fact that Cruise is one of our most gifted and versatile dramatic and comedic actors with the likes of “ Born on the Fourth of July ,” “ Magnolia ,” “ Tropic Thunder ,” and “ Collateral ” under his belt, you will never forget why you show up to a Tom Cruise movie, thanks in large part to his aforesaid enduring dedication. How many other household names and faces can claim to guarantee “a singular movie event” these days and deliver each time, without exceptions?

In that regard, you will be right at home with “Top Gun: Maverick,” director Joseph Kosinski ’s witty adrenaline booster that allows its leading producer to be exactly what he is—a star—while upping the emotional and dramatic stakes of its predecessor with a healthy (but not overdone) dose of nostalgia. After a title card that explains what “Top Gun” is—the identical one that introduced us to the world of crème-de-la-crème Navy pilots in 1986—we find Maverick in a role on the fringes of the US Navy, working as an undaunted test pilot against the familiar backdrop of Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.” You won’t be surprised that soon enough, he gets called on a one-last-job type of mission as a teacher to a group of recent Top Gun graduates. Their assignment is just as obscure and politically cuckoo as it was in the first movie. There is an unnamed enemy—let’s called it Russia because it’s probably Russia—some targets that need to be destroyed, a flight plan that sounds nuts, and a scheme that will require all successful Top Gun recruits to fly at dangerously low altitudes. But can it be done?

It’s a long shot, if the details of the operation—explained to the aviator hopefuls in a rather “It can’t be done” style reminiscent of “ Mission: Impossible ”—are any indication. But you will be surprised that more appealing than the prospect of the bonkers mission here is the human drama that co-scribes Ehren Kruger , Eric Warren Singer , and Christopher McQuarrie spin from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks . For starters, the group of potential recruits include Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw ( Miles Teller , terrific), the son of the dearly departed “Goose,” whose accidental death still haunts Maverick as much as it does the rest of us. And if Rooster’s understandable distaste of him wasn’t enough (despite Maverick’s protective instincts towards him), there are skeptics of Maverick’s credentials— Jon Hamm ’s Cyclone, for instance, can’t understand why Maverick’s foe-turned-friend Iceman ( Val Kilmer , returning with a tearjerker of a part) insists on him as the teacher of the mission. Further complicating the matters is Maverick’s on-and-off romance with Penny Benjamin (a bewitching Jennifer Connelly ), a new character that was prominently name-checked in the original movie, as some will recall. What an entanglement through which one is tasked to defend their nation and celebrate a certain brand of American pride ...

In a different package, all the brouhaha jingoism and proud fist-shaking seen in “Top Gun: Maverick” could have been borderline insufferable. But fortunately Kosinski—whose underseen and underrated “Only The Brave” will hopefully find a second life now—seems to understand exactly what kind of movie he is asked to navigate. In his hands, the tone of “Maverick” strikes a fine balance between good-humored vanity and half-serious self-deprecation, complete with plenty of quotable zingers and emotional moments that catch one off-guard.

In some sense, what this movie takes most seriously are concepts like friendship, loyalty, romance, and okay, bromance. Everything else that surrounds those notions—like patriotic egotism—feels like playful winks and embellishments towards fashioning an old-school action movie. And because this mode is clearly shared by the entirety of the cast—from a memorable Ed Harris that begs for more screen time to the always great Glen Powell as the alluringly overconfident “ Hangman ,” Greg Tarzan Davis as “Coyote,” Jay Ellis as “ Payback ,” Danny Ramirez as “Fanboy,” Monica Barbaro as “ Phoenix ,” and Lewis Pullman as “Bob”—“Top Gun: Maverick” runs fully on its enthralling on-screen harmony at times. For evidence, look no further than the intense, fiery chemistry between Connelly and Cruise throughout—it’s genuinely sexy stuff—and (in a nostalgic nod to the original), a rather sensual beach football sequence, shot with crimson hues and suggestive shadows by Claudio Miranda .

Still, the action sequences—all the low-altitude flights, airborne dogfights as well as Cruise on a motorcycle donned in his original Top Gun leather jacket—are likewise the breathtaking stars of “Maverick,” often accompanied by Harold Faltermeyer ’s celebratory original score (aided by cues from Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe ). Reportedly, all the flying scenes—a pair of which are pure hell-yes moments for Cruise—were shot in actual U.S. Navy F/A-18s, for which the cast had to be trained for during a mind-boggling process. The authentic work that went into every frame generously shows. As the jets cut through the atmosphere and brush their target soils in close-shave movements—all coherently edited by Eddie Hamilton —the sensation they generate feels miraculous and worthy of the biggest screen one can possibly find. Equally worthy of that big screen is the emotional strokes of “Maverick” that pack an unexpected punch. Sure, you might be prepared for a second sky-dance with “Maverick,” but perhaps not one that might require a tissue or two in its final stretch.

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action, and some strong language.

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Tom Cruise as Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw

Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin

Jon Hamm as Vice Admiral Cyclone

Glen Powell as Hangman

Lewis Pullman as Bob

Charles Parnell as Warlock

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Monica Barbaro as Phoenix

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In one of the more memorable lines in the original Top Gun , Maverick gets chewed out by a superior who tells him, "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash."

Sometimes I wonder if Tom Cruise took that putdown as a personal challenge. No movie star seems to work harder or push himself further than Cruise these days. He just keeps going and going, whether he's scaling skyscrapers in a new Mission: Impossible adventure or showing a bunch of fresh-faced pilots how it's done in the ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining Top Gun: Maverick .

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Cruise was in his early 20s when he first played Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, the cocky young Navy pilot with the aviator sunglasses, the Kawasaki motorcycle and the need for speed. In the sequel, he's as arrogant and insubordinate as ever: Now a Navy test pilot in his late 50s, Maverick still knows how to tick off his superiors, as we see in an exciting opening sequence where he pushes a new plane beyond its limits. Partly as punishment, he's ordered to return to TOPGUN, the elite pilot-training school, and train its best and brightest for an impossibly dangerous new mission.

One of his trainees is a hotheaded young pilot called Rooster, played by Miles Teller. Rooster is the son of Maverick's beloved wingman, Goose, who tragically died while flying with Maverick in the first Top Gun . Maverick's lingering guilt over Goose's death affects his relationship with Rooster; so does his desire to protect Rooster from harm, which generates some suspense over whether he'll end up choosing the young man for the assignment.

And so the three screenwriters of Top Gun: Maverick — including Cruise's regular Mission: Impossible writer-director, Christopher McQuarrie — have taken the threads of the original and spun them into an intergenerational male weepie, a dad movie of truly epic proportions. They're tapping into nostalgia for the original, while aiming for new levels of emotional grandeur. To that end, the soundtrack features a Lady Gaga song, "Hold My Hand." It's nowhere near as iconic a chart topper as the original movie's "Take My Breath Away," but tugs at your heartstrings nonetheless.

Much of the plot is unabashedly derivative of the first Top Gun . Once again, Maverick runs afoul of growling authority figures, here played by Ed Harris and Jon Hamm . Cruise's former co-star Kelly McGillis is nowhere to be seen, but Maverick does get another perfunctory love interest, a bartender named Penny, nicely played by Jennifer Connelly despite the thanklessness of the role.

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What's interesting about Top Gun: Maverick is how it isn't like its predecessor, mostly in terms of style. The first Top Gun , directed on a relatively low budget by the late Tony Scott , combined the aesthetics of a military recruitment video with some of the ripest homoerotic imagery ever seen in a major Hollywood movie. For better or worse, the sequel, directed by Joseph Kosinski of Tron: Legacy and Oblivion , is a much tamer, slicker, classier affair. Maverick no longer struts around in towels and tighty-whities, though he can still fly a plane like nobody's business.

The action sequences are much more thrilling and immersive than in the original. You feel like you're really in the cockpit with these pilots, and that's because you are: The actors underwent intense flight training and flew actual planes during shooting. In that respect, Top Gun: Maverick feels like a throwback to a lost era of practical moviemaking, before computer-generated visual effects took over Hollywood. You start to understand why Cruise, the creative force behind the movie, was so driven to make it: In telling a story where older and younger pilots butt heads, and state-of-the-art F-18s duke it out with rusty old F-14s, he's trying to show us that there's room for the old and the new to coexist. He's also advancing a case for the enduring appeal of the movies and their power to transport us with viscerally gripping action and big, sweeping emotions.

Which brings us to the movie's most powerful scene, in which Val Kilmer briefly reprises his role as Iceman, Maverick's former nemesis-turned-friend. Kilmer is, in some respects, Cruise's opposite: a onetime star whose career never quite found its groove, and who's been beset by health issues in recent years, including the loss of his voice due to throat cancer. His soulful presence here gives this high-flying melodrama the grounding it needs. Cruise may be this movie's immortal star, but it's Kilmer's aching performance that takes your breath away.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One: release date, reviews, trailer and everything we know about the Tom Cruise movie

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Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is back to save the world once again in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One , the seventh entry in the long-running franchise. Mission: Impossible movies date back to 1996 and are defined by Cruise and the incredible stunts he performs — the wire hanging scene, climbing the Burj Khalifa, doing a HALO skydive and clinging to the outside of a plane as it takes off being some of the most memorable.

Even as Tom Cruise approaches 60, the Mission: Impossible movies seemingly get better as they go along. The last entry, Mission: Impossible — Fallout , is the highest rated in the franchise on Rotten Tomatoes (97% "Fresh") and had the best box office of any of the previous movies ($791 million worldwide).

So how will Cruise raise the stakes in this new entry to the action franchise? Here's everything we know about Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One .

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One release date

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One officially arrives in movie theaters on Wednesday, July 12 in the US and two days earlier in the UK on July 10.

The release of the seventh Mission: Impossible movie is a long time coming. Mission: Impossible — Fallout was released in 2018 and the hope was that the next movie would follow quickly on its heels with a July 2020 release. However, in the early days of the pandemic it was moved from that July 2020 date to December 2020, only for it to be moved again to November 19, 2021, then to May 27, 2022, and then again to Sept. 30, 2022, before it was finally shifted to its 2023 summer blockbuster date.

Part of the reason for the delays was the challenges of doing production during the pandemic. Production was shut down multiple times, first at the beginning of the pandemic and then again in 2021 when there were cases among the crew . At one point during production, Cruise was captured on audio criticizing crew members for not following COVID safety protocols.

With the new date for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One , the shift impacts Mission: Impossible 8 (which is being filmed back-to-back with to movie number seven and will presumably be called Dead Reckoning Part Two ), moving from its previous date of July 7, 2023 to June 28, 2024.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One trailer

An all new trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is now available, previewing two new big stunts in a franchise known for them and giving video games fans " Uncharted 2 vibes ." Take a look right here:

You can also check out previously released trailer and teasers directly below:

While not a trailer, footage that was shown from the 2022 CinemaCon event has been shared online. In it Tom Cruise is standing on a biplane over a gorgeous backdrop. Is there anything this man won't do for a cool looking stunt?

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One plot

Even though we're just about four months away from the movie's release, there is almost no information on what the plot of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is going to be. But we can assume that Ethan Hunt and his IMF team will have to race against the clock to save the world from some kind of imminent destruction (after all, if it ain't broke).

While specific plot details are being kept secret, we have gotten some inklings on what stunts Tom Cruise will be performing for audiences’ enjoyment. A behind-the-scenes look at what Cruise and company have described as his most dangerous stunt came out in December 2022.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One cast

Tom Cruise has been at the center of the Mission: Impossible franchise since the very beginning as IMF (Impossible Mission Force) agent Ethan Hunt. It has become one of the actor's most iconic roles in a career that also includes movies like Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick ), Risky Business and Jerry Maguire .

While there were originally thoughts Cruise would hand the franchise off to Jeremy Renner after the latter was introduced in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol , Cruise remains a constant and the driving force behind the movies (Renner left the franchise after Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation ). However, Mission: Impossible has built up a team to go along with Cruise over its last few movies.

The IMF team that supports Cruise's Ethan Hunt is led by Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell (around since Mission: Impossible ), Simon Pegg's Benji Dunn (around since Mission: Impossible III ) and Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust (around since Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation ).

There are also some tenuous allies from past movies that will be returning for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One , including Vanessa Kirby's White Widow and Angela Bassett's Erika Sloane, both of whom debuted in Mission: Impossible — Fallout. There's also Henry Czerny, who played Eugene Kittridge in the original Mission: Impossible .

Making their Mission: Impossible debuts with this seventh entry are going to be Hayley Atwell ( Agent Carter , Captain America: The First Avenger ), Cary Elwes ( The Princess Bride , Stranger Things ), Pom Klementieff ( Guardians of the Galaxy ), Rob Delaney ( Home Sweet Home Alone , Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw ), Indira Varma ( Game of Thrones, Obi-Wan Kenobi ), Charles Parnell ( The Last Ship , Top Gun: Maverick ), Shea Whigham ( Boardwalk Empire , Perry Mason ) and Mark Gatiss ( Sherlock , The Favourite ).

On March 10, director Christopher McQuarrie also announced via Instagram that Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham is joining the franchise in an unspecified role.

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Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One reviews

The reviews are in for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One , and they are some of the best of the summer. In WTW's Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One review , our reviewed called it one of the most thrilling rides in the franchise.

Other critics were pretty laudatory as well, as the movie quickly became "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes and as of July 5 has a 98% score.

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One director

Mission: Impossible went through four different directors with the first four movies of the franchise, including Brian De Palma, John Woo, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird. However, since Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation , the franchise has been shepherded by Christopher McQuarrie, who is once again serving as director for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (and Mission: Impossible 8 ).

The Mission: Impossible movies have been McQuarrie's calling card as a director, though he had previously directed Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012). Prior to taking over as a director, McQuarrie was best known as a writer, having penned The Usual Suspects and other Tom Cruise movies like Valkyrie , Jack Reacher and Edge of Tomorrow . McQuarrie has also written all of the Mission: Impossible movies that he has directed.

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Tom Cruise has a couple of projects coming up in the near future, including sequels, action movies, and even one filmed in space.

Tom Cruise is one of the most popular actors of his generation, and here’s every upcoming movie he will appear in. Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, and made his big-screen debut in 1981 in the romantic drama Endless Love , where he only had a bit part. Later that year, he had a supporting role in the drama Taps , which helped open more doors for him in the entertainment world. Cruise’s breakthrough came in 1983 with the teen comedy Risky Business , where he played the lead role. Later, in 1986, his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun helped cement his superstar status.

Since then, Cruise has worked with a number of directors and explored various genres – from gothic horror with Interview with the Vampire , where he played vampire Lestat, to action spy movies like the Mission: Impossible saga and psychological dramas like Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut . Although he has also been part of less popular and successful projects, such as the 2017 version of The Mummy , Cruise continues to be quite popular with the audience, in big part thanks to the Mission: Impossible franchise, which continues to produce more and more movies, all starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.

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Although Mission: Impossible continues to be a priority in Tom Cruise’s career, he already has other projects lined up, of which not much is known, but they will take him on different adventures, including one in outer space. In addition to that, fans are waiting for the highly anticipated sequel to a 1980s classic to arrive, as its release date had to be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic . Here’s every upcoming Tom Cruise movie:

Top Gun: Maverick

First on the list of Tom Cruise’s upcoming projects is Top Gun: Maverick , a sequel to the 1986 movie Top Gun . Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick will see Maverick training a new generation of pilots, among those Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Goose’s son. This will push Maverick to confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly. Also starring are Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, and Ed Harris. Top Gun: Maverick was originally scheduled for a July 2019 release, and was later pushed to June 2020. Due to the pandemic, Top Gun: Maverick was delayed to July 2021.

Mission Impossible 7 & 8

As mentioned above, the Mission: Impossible movie series is still alive and keeps on producing new content. The latest entry in the franchise was Mission: Impossible – Fallout , released in 2018. Fans of the series won’t have to worry about the franchise ending with Fallout , as a seventh and eighth movie are in development, with plans of filming back-to-back. Unfortunately, the pandemic also changed those plans, and Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 were rescheduled, with their new release dates being November 19, 2021, and November 4, 2022, respectively.

SpaceX Project

The weirdest and most ambitious project in Tom Cruise’s list of upcoming movies is one that is currently referred to as the “SpaceX Project”. This will take Cruise and company to space , with the purpose of shooting a movie in space on board the International Space Station. The mission is expected to happen in late 2021 and will count with Doug Liman as director, but details on the plot, characters, and more are currently unknown.

Another confirmed project starring Tom Cruise is Luna Park , with Doug Liman also directing. Luna Park has been in development for years and has been referred to as a "passion project" of Liman. Just like SpaceX Project , Luna Park is a sci-fi movie, with the story following a group of renegade employees who “ venture to the moon to steal an energy source ”. Luna Park doesn’t have a projected release date yet, but hopefully, it will see the light soon.

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Tom Cruise debuts new 'Mission: Impossible' trailer while sitting on top of a flying plane

LAS VEGAS – Leave it to Tom Cruise to do the absolute most.

The Hollywood daredevil was not on hand at CinemaCon Thursday to debut the trailer for the next "Mission: Impossible" movie, nor to attend the first screening for his long-awaited "Top Gun: Maverick" (in theaters May 27).

But Cruise still managed to pre-tape a video message for the convention of movie theater owners from the South Africa set of "Mission: Impossible." The eighth installment in the film series, "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part I," is expected in theaters next summer.

"Hi, everyone, wish I could be there with you," Cruise said casually, seated on top of an open cockpit biplane flying thousands of feet above a massive canyon. "I'm sorry for the extra noise," he apologized, his voice muffled by the aircraft engine.

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"We have a first look at the 'Mission: Impossible' trailer, so please enjoy," he said. "Let's all have a great summer and we'll see you at the movies."

And with that, the plane swooped down into the canyon with Cruise still perched on the base of a wing, earning gasps from the crowd at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

The "Mission: Impossible" trailer promised more death-defying stunts from Cruise, as his globe-trotting agent Ethan Hunt is told that his days of "fighting for the greater good are over." The footage was jam-packed with explosions, car chases and Cruise punching bad guys on top of a moving train, culminating in a hair-raising moment where his motorcycle goes off a cliff and sends him into freefall.

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"Dead Reckoning," which has suffered extensive production delays because of the pandemic, is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2018's "Mission: Impossible – Fallout."

During Paramount's presentation on Thursday, the studio premiered a winning first look at Old Hollywood drama "Babylon" (in theaters Christmas Day), from "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle and starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. Paramount also formally announced "A Quiet Place: Day One," a prequel to John Krasinski's sci-fi/horror franchise.

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Grab your lantern and hold onto your head - the Sleepy Hollow remake is still underway over at Paramount Pictures as, according to The Hollywood Reporter , the studio has announced that it will be renewing its first-look deal with filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer as well as her Lab Brew production company. This should be thrilling news to fans of the spooky story first penned by Washington Irving more than two centuries ago as Anderson Beer more than proved that she’s capable with beloved stories when she released the Pet Sematary prequel, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines .

Back in September, our very own Perri Nemiroff sat down with the writer and director to chat about her vision for Sleepy Hollow and how she plans to mold the classic Halloween tale into something of her own. Explaining that there would be plenty of lessons learned from Bloodlines that would transfer into her work on her sophomore production, Anderson Beer said,

“ Sleepy Hollow … You know, there are a lot of skill sets that are similar in terms of its beloved IP. It’s also the same kind of thing where when I was doing Bloodlines , I kept asking myself when I was doing the rewrites, “What would I want to know as a Pet Sematary fan? What are the questions left unanswered from the book? And what are the parts of the book that haven’t been explored in movies?”

What Other Projects Does Lindsey Anderson Beer and Lab Brew Have In The Works?

Along with Sleepy Hollow , Paramount’s move to keep Anderson Beer and her production banner onboard comes with a slew of other projects. Included in the lineup is a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark , penned by Shane and Carey Van Dyke , the pair between the Olivia Wilde -helmed Don’t Worry Darling . Anderson Beer and Lab Brew will produce that one and will also stand behind titles including Searching for Susy Thunder , American Girl , and Wilderness Reform . Jumping into another story for one of her upcoming gigs, Anderson Beer is also set to pen, helm, and produce a sci-fi thriller titled Optimize that already has Bob Marley: One Love and Captain Marvel ’s Lashana Lynch onboard to star.

Stay tuned to Collider for more information and updates surrounding Sleepy Hollow . For now, you can catch Anderson Beer’s handiwork on Pet Sematary: Bloodlines as it’s now streaming on Paramount+ and Prime Video.

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Tom Cruise Parties With David Beckham After Actor's Own Feud With Mark Wahlberg

Tom Cruise has found himself "dragged" into David Beckham and Mark Wahlberg ‘s epic $10 million dollar feud after attending Victoria Beckham ‘s star-studded 50th birthday bash on Saturday night.

As the Mission Impossible star, 61, rocked up at Beckham's wife's star studded birthday bash in London and reportedly did the splits on the dance floor cheered on by the likes of Eva Longoria and the reunited Spice Girls, he was likely oblivious to a storm brewing online.

Us Weekly confirmed that Beckham's DB Ventures company filed a lawsuit against F45 Training, which is partially owned by his former pal Wahlberg.

The soccer star, 48, alleges in court documents shared by TMZ that F45 "duped" him into signing an endorsement deal but he never received the $10 million he was offered in contract negotiations.

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He said he was promised stocks as compensation, which were never delivered after share prices seemingly plummeted.

And as he battles it out with the Boogie Nights actor, a contentious old video has resurfaced adding fuel to the fire.

Little did Beckham's pal Cruise know that his appearance at the exclusive bash would only stir up his own old "feud" with Wahlberg and lead to talk of him siding with Beckham in this fresh one.

A 2013 clip started doing the rounds online showing Wahlberg appearing to slam the Top Gun actor for suggesting that sometimes it feels like acting is akin to serving as a soldier.

At the time he asked if shooting a movie feels like being a soldier in Afghanistan and replied: "That's what it feels like and certainly on this last movie, it was brutal. it was brutal."

Wahlberg saw red at the suggestion that any actor would compare the craft to being on the front line.

A video obtained by TMZ showed the star speaking at a Q&A in Los Angeles ahead of a screening of his film Lone Survivor , in which he plays a Navy SEAL.

"For actors to sit there and talk about, ‘Oh, I went to SEAL training' - I don't give a f-k about what you did," he said.

"You don't do what these guys do. You just don't. For somebody to sit there and say my job was as difficult as being in the military. How f-king dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for two hours.

"I don't give a s-t if you're getting your ass busted. You get to go home at the end of the day. You get to go to your hotel room. You get to order f-king chicken or steak, whatever the f-k is."

Afterwards, he asked Q&A host not to ask him any more questions, while he calmed down before apologizing for "losing his s-t."

However, Wahlberg then later claimed that it was a misunderstanding. During an interview with TMZ, he said: "I didn't know that it was Tom Cruise that said that. Somebody just mentioned that people are [making that comparison]. I love Tom Cruise. I have much respect for Tom Cruise, but I have just as much respect for military guys, so it's just unfair for anybody to comment on that."

The pair have not crossed paths since nor have they embarked on any projects together. It hasn't helped matters that Wahlberg has since said that he got into producing movies because he was tired of waiting around to be offered films that Cruise had rejected.

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Fans sharing the resurfaced clip of his angry 2013 rant suggested that Cruise has shown his loyalty to old pal Beckham by pausing his hectic work schedule to rock up at the Saturday night bash amid the new drama.

Wahlberg's lawyers have denied the former athlete's $10 million claims, calling the "fraudulent conduct" accusations baseless in a motion to dismiss according to The Sun .

"The 209-page, 610-paragraph SAC [complaint] tries to make up with length what it lacks in merit," a response from Wahlberg's lawyers read.

F45 launched in 2011 with Wahlberg, who owns more than 30 percent of the company, serving as chief brand officer. Beckham, who became pals with Wahlberg when he and Victoria moved to LA back in 2012, and former golfer Greg Norman sued F45 Training together in late 2022, but a judge ordered them to separate their lawsuits.

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Suri Cruise was once the most famous baby in America.

The arrival of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter on April 18, 2006, sparked a global frenzy for the first glimpse of the A-list infant.

But it wasn’t until five months after her birth that she made her debut — on the cover of Vanity Fair, wrapped in the arms of her doting parents, in glossy photos taken by photographer to the stars, Annie Leibovitz.

Now she turns 18 this week and faces a choice: Whether to return to the level of fame she had as a kid — when there were blogs devoted to her fashion — or maintain the carefully-guarded life Holmes has built for her since she blindsided Cruise by filing for divorce.

Suri Cruise was a celebrity from infancy.

The dark-haired teen has grown up in Manhattan largely shielded from the spotlight by her loving and highly protective mum, 45, far removed from her 60-year-old father’s Church of Scientology.

As Page Six revealed last year, Suri is estranged from her famous father and the pair have no relationship.

An industry source told us this week that the Mission: Impossible star has not seen Suri since 2012. “Katie has safeguarded Suri and she’s a devoted mum,” the source said.

“This is a girl who is a private citizen. She hasn’t lived her life in public.”

Tom and baby Suri in the south of France circa 2007.

Holmes told Glamour magazine in 2023 that she likes to “protect” Suri from the public eye “because she was so visible at a young age.”

“I’m very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent. She’s an incredible person. She’s my heart,” she added.

Being the only daughter of a protective single parent is a stark contrast to how Suri’s life began, of course.

“My whole life I always wanted to be a father,” Cruise gushed to VF back in 2006.

“I always said to myself that my children would be able to depend on me and I would always be there for them and love them — that I’d never make a promise to my kids that I couldn’t keep.

“I’m not one of those people who believe you can spoil a child with too much love. You can never give a child too much love. There’s just no way.”

Suri Cruise pictured on her 18th birthday in New York City. Picture: Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID

He already had two adopted children, Bella, now 31, and Connor, now 29, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman and after her Vanity Fair debut was happy to parade Suri for the paparazzi.

Cruise had famously declared their romance by jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey’s couch in May 2005, yelling “I’m in love!”

But when Suri was just 6, Holmes filed for divorce after six years of marriage with the help of her dad, Martin Holmes, a fierce lawyer, and through a secret plan that entailed using burner phones.

Cruise was taken completely by surprise by the filing while he was on the set of Oblivion in Iceland in June 2012.

He and Suri were last seen together at Disney World in the summer of 2012.

In November 2013, during a deposition in his $US50 million court battle against a pair of tabloid magazines, the Top Gun star admitted that Holmes had filed for divorce “to protect Suri from Scientology,” court documents revealed.

Despite not having a relationship; as per their divorce agreement, Cruise, who has an estimated $US600 million fortune, agreed to pay Holmes $US400,000 a year until Suri turns 18 as well as future “medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extra-curricular costs”.

Since her split from Tom, Katie has shielded her daughter from the public eye. Picture: Getty

Scientology lies at the heart of the question over Suri’s future.

Holmes, who rose to fame in the TV hit, Dawson’s Creek , is believed to have signed multiple nondisclosure documents that will prevent her from ever talking about her marriage to Cruise — and her time inside Scientology.

But when Suri turns 18, NY state declares that she is at the age of majority, when an individual is legally considered an adult.

That would allow her to speak about her father, his beliefs and their rift.

Tony Ortega, who has covered Scientology in depth for decades, told Page Six, “Suri would have been too young to sign any agreement, but she will now be free to talk if she wants to and it’s going to be really interesting if she has something to say.”

We have reached out to reps for Cruise, Holmes and the Church of Scientology.

“Part of why Katie left when she did when Suri was 6 was that Katie would have seen Isabella and Connor going through Scientology,” said Ortega.

Katie and Suri step out in New York recently. Picture: BrosNYC / BACKGRID

Cruise is of course Scientology’s most famous follower and seen as one of its most powerful figures, possibly second only to its leader, David Miscavige.

That power has led Ortega and former Scientologists to question what action Miscavige and other top Scientologists may have taken against Holmes and her daughter.

Regular members who quit are declared “suppressive persons (SP)” and those who stay in Scientology are told to completely cut them off.

“We don’t know for sure if Katie was ever declared an SP,” Ortega said.

“If you are a regular church member you could be told to disconnect from your wife and daughter, but because Tom is a celebrity — he’s the top celebrity — he gets to ignore all this stuff.

“Your average member would be kicked out, but David Miscavige can’t do that with Tom.”

Both Mike Rinder and Jeff Augustine, two high-profile former Scientologists, agreed with this claim.

Augustine is married to Karen de la Carriere, who was one of the highest-ranking church leaders until she left in 2010 and told Page Six, “The situation with Suri is a larger story about Scientology and the subject of how they make people no longer useful to them or threats to them non-persons.

“It’s like they cease to exist and that’s what happened to Suri.”

Back in August 2020, Leah Remini — one of the most famous celebrities to leave and speak out against Scientology — told us that she believed Cruise, who now lives mainly in the UK, was waiting until Suri is older so he could indoctrinate her into Scientology.

Remini, who attended Cruise and Holmes’ November 2006 Italian wedding at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle, said, “I’m sure his master plan is to wait until Suri gets older so that he can lure her into Scientology and away from her mother.”

Suri has tiptoed very gently into her parents’ showbusiness world while attending her exclusive Manhattan day school, singing B lue Moon in the opening credits of Holmes’ 2022 movie, Alone Together.

“I always want the highest level of talent,” Holmes said. “So I asked her! She’s very, very talented. She said she would do it and she recorded it, and I let her do her thing.”

Suri also sang in the film Rare Objects , which Holmes also directed.

Cruise proclaimed his love for Katie Holmes in his infamous 2005 Oprah interview.

Holmes will this year return to Broadway in a revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town .

She has not remarried but had a six-year romance with actor Jamie Foxx which she kept under the radar before their split in August 2019 and went on to have a brief fling with Nolita restaurateur Emilio Vitolo Jr. in 2021.

Holmes is careful not to speak out too much about her daughter, who is now preparing for college, once saying, “She came out very strong — she’s always been a strong personality.”

But she is now getting ready for her daughter to leave the nest.

“You want them to stay with you forever, but they’re these amazing beings, and you have to do everything you can to give them what they need — and then they’re going to go,” she told Town & Country in 2017.

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“And that’s going to be very, very sad for me.”

As for the future, former Scientology spokesperson Mike Rinder, who has not seen his own two eldest children since he quit the organisation, told Page Six, “Suri is not a Scientologist and never will be … she deserves love and sympathy.”

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.

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The Mission Impossible star shares Suri with his ex-wife, Katie Holmes , and the birthday girl was pictured looking happy as she walked around New York City with a friend, while clutching onto a birthday present.

Suri is thought to have celebrated more over the weekend with her mom, while Tom was pictured in London at another milestone birthday party.

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Other well-known faces in attendance included Eva Longoria, Salma Hayek and Marc Anthony. The Spice Girls also reunited, with Emma Bunton, Geri Horner, Mel B and Mel C posing with the birthday girl.

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Tom was all smiles in a number of photos posted on the night, looking smart in a tuxedo. As well as Suri, Tom is also father to adopted grown-up children, Isabella 'Bella', 31, and Connor, 29, who he shares with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.

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Nicole Kidman’s 28 Best Film and TV Performances, Ranked

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Nicole Kidman is the rare actress in the 21st century who, like the stars of Hollywood’s golden years, doesn’t disappear into roles so much as elevate films by her mere presence.

She’s certainly swung big at mainstream blockbusters (think: the “Aquaman” films) that might feel out of her step with her character-driven work elsewhere (like most of the films on the list that follows). But that’s because the Australian icon is unafraid of any role, whether stripping down her post-Oscar, A-lister veneer to film Lars von Trier’s Brechtian “Dogville” in Sweden, slipping into a bathtub with the 10-year-old possible reincarnation of her dead husband in Jonathan Glazer’s “Birth,” or, yes, donning a fake nose to play a suicidal Virginia Woolf for her Oscar-winning turn in “The Hours.”

On April 27 in Los Angeles, Nicole Kidman will receive the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award , joining the ranks of Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Julie Andrews, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Shirley MacLaine, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mike Nichols. She’s the first Australian to take the prestigious honor, and certainly one of the youngest recipients. But Kidman has beyond proven herself in recent years with a steady stream of projects on screens big and small. And don’t forget her beloved AMC ads , which have now made her into a theater-championing icon.

Surely, the five-time Oscar nominee (most recently as Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos”) has one of the most tireless work ethics of any screen star. She most recently wowed on Amazon Prime Video with her performance as a wealthy American expatriate in Hong Kong looking for her missing son in “Expats.” She’s soon back on screens in A24’s “Babygirl” as a corporate CEO embroiled in an affair with a much younger charge. And she has at least four more movies in post-production right now, often shepherding them through her production company Blossom Films. Kidman figured out the only way to get women’s roles right onscreen was to make them for herself, and set a standard for up-and-comers after her.

Below, in honor of Kidman’s upcoming AFI tribute, IndieWire picks 28 (28! and that hardly scratches the surface!) of her best film and TV roles and ranks them.

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28. ‘The Stepford Wives’ (2004)

Frank Oz’s black comedy remake of the classic thriller is a mess, but the performances are so fun you can almost forgive its confused tone (not to mention the twist on the original’s twist is a great way to keep things fresh). A TV exec recovering from a nervous breakdown, Kidman and her family head to the suburbs for a fresh start (and maybe a more colorful wardrobe, her husband hopes), where Kidman is quickly alarmed by the eerily cheerful wives of Stepford. And though Kidman gravitates towards more serious projects, she finds the comedy in Joanna’s severe black bob and among the Lily Pulitzer prints in Connecticut, delivering zingers perfectly balanced on the knife’s edge of sincerity and spoof. The movie was a critical misfire (and a troubled production), so we have been deprived of more Kidman comedy performances. What a shame. —MP

27. ‘Being the Ricardos’ (2021)

No, Nicole Kidman is not a famously funny person — though she has excelled in comedic roles — so yes, her casting as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s talky drama raised eyebrows and elicited that classic Lucy, ‘Ughhh!’ But then, Ball herself never claimed to be funny. ‘What I am is brave,’ she said, and Kidman runs with that theory, lowering her voice to a pack-a-day growl and giving audiences the behind-the-scenes Ball: a tough-as-nails powerhouse who had to practice every punchline in a mirror but understood the precise nature of physical comedy. What Ball did was an acquired skill, and Kidman artfully reveals the force of will that made it happen, in the process revealing (and reveling) in what it takes to create a legacy. —MP

26. ‘Batman Forever’ (1995)

While the ‘Batman’ franchise’s leading ladies have a tendency to swing wildly between meek good girls and wild women gone very bad, Kidman’s first foray into the superhero milieu offered her something different than the series’ history might suggest. In Joel Schumacher’s 1995 ‘Batman Forever,’ Kidman spread her wings as a newly created character — no superhero backstory here — who offers both sex appeal and psychoanalyst smarts.

No, Dr. Chase Meridian might not seem like the traditional Kidman role. Frankly, it seems easier to imagine her playing Catwoman and going the split-persona route of Halle Berry or Michelle Pfeiffer. But Kidman herself has long been clear about what was thrilling about playing the good doctor. It’s that she’s a damsel in distress, really, someone with plenty of brains and not a whole lot of sense, the kind of part she hadn’t previously taken on. In 1995, this was new for her, and her interest in playing something unexpected shines through in the role, complete with a fresh curiosity that sparks up a seemingly predictable part. —KE

25. ‘Destroyer’ (2018)

The hard-nosed LA detective with battle scars and emotional wounds to spare? We know that part, we know that movie, but we don’t know it quite like Kidman in Karyn Kusama’s fascinating 2018 neo-noir. Much has been made about the stripped-down quality of Kidman’s physical look in the film. As Detective Erin Bell, she’s all shapeless clothes, her trademark red tresses turned gray and short, but it’s the spareness of her emotional landscape that really stands out.

It’s the kind of role that we’re used to seeing men portray, and so Kidman’s spin on the ‘strong female character’ already scans as something different, but as she slips further into Erin’s darkness, as Kusama slowly reveals more and more about how she landed there, the actress touches something far beyond ‘unexpected casting.’ It’s gritty and hard-nosed and scary and decidedly different, and even as Erin doesn’t root for herself, we can’t help but root for Kidman. —KE

24. ‘The Northman’ (2022)

THE NORTHMAN, Nicole Kidman, 2022. ph: Aidan Monaghan / © Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection

There are long stretches where it seems like the biggest mystery of ‘The Northman’ is why Nicole Kidman is in it. She has a regal mein as Queen Gunrun, no doubt, but Robert Eggers’ Vikingified riff on Hamlet is much more concerned with the violence and vengeance that Alexander Skarsgard’s Amleth wants to wreak on his feckless uncle Fjolnir (Claes Bang). But then the film gives her a monologue. It would be highly dishonorable to spoil what she says, or to whom, but it’s a scene so meaty, you can tell it sustained her for the rest of the movie’s run. It’s almost worth the entirety of ‘The Northman’ on its own, too. When Kidman gets to flex her intelligence, her sharpness, then her dialogue cuts deeper than any sword to the gut. — SS

23. ‘Far and Away’ (1992)

The kind of sweeping romantic epic they just don’t make these days, this is a film in which the delicate rules behind literal land-grabbing and the impact of the Great Potato Famine play major parts in understanding the story. It’s also the kind Kidman should have made dozens of.

In the 1992 Ron Howard epic, Kidman is spoiled little rich girl Shannon Christie (early ‘Titanic’ vibes), who opts to leave her wealthy Irish family (and handsome, if boring suitor; again, early ‘Titanic’ vibes) to travel to land rush era America to make her own way. She’s joined by a scrappy local farmer (Tom Cruise) who also wants his own life, land, and, hell — his own Shannon, too.

Howard drags his stars through all sorts of waypoints of pioneer life — the lush but cursed homeland, the dirty and mean big city, amber waves of grain vistas, the whole lot of it. Kidman finds a way to bring nuance to what is essentially a Grown-Up American Girl Doll role. Shannon finds herself through rough circumstances and hard luck, and Kidman’s early shine does a whole hell of a lot to sell this particular brand of American dream. —KE

22. ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1996)

PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Nicole Kidman, 1996. © Gramercy Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

Nicole Kidman steps into the worlds of Henry James and Jane Campion for the New Zealand director’s surreal and fever-dreaming interpretation of the 1880 novel. Kidman makes Isabel Archer, an American society woman who comes into great fortune only to debase herself in a series of bad conquests, an idealist with heroine qualities rather than a victim of circumstance. Heretofore in 1996 not always an actress who radiated hungry sexuality, Kidman brings both vulnerability and a fierce intelligence to the Jamesian lead. (Why doesn’t she just dump John Malkovich’s flaneur Gilbert Osmond? Kidman keeps you guessing.)

‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is an early showcase for Kidman’s penchant for searching, feminist women defying tradition, even if the movie is little remembered in either the actress’ or Campion’s filmographies. —RL

21. ‘Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus’ (2006)

FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS, Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus, Ty Burrell as Allan Arbus, 2006. ©Picturehouse/courtesy Everett Collection

Nicole Kidman took a few hairpin career turns in the mid-aughts, from the middling remake of ‘Bewitched’ to god-awful horror retread ‘The Invasion,’ plus career-topping performances in movies like ‘Margot at the Wedding’ and even ‘The Stepford Wives’ (another remake). After winning the Oscar for Best Actress for ‘The Hours’ and not bringing in quite as many awards as one would hope for Anthony Minghella’s ‘Cold Mountain,’ Kidman went for broke in indies.

Steven Shainberg’s ‘Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus’ is one such example, a bizarre and creepy surreal, well, imagining of the life of photographer Arbus. As Arbus was known as a chronicler of outsiders, the film finds Kidman digging deep into the midcentury icon’s craft, and befriending the social castaways of 1950s New York City. That includes a chronically hirsute neighbor played by Robert Downey Jr. The movie’s languid pacing and disturbing imagery were true to her subject, and Kidman was game to take another woman on the sidelines, looking beneath the surface of typical biography for something deeper and stranger. —RL

20. ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ (2017)

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, Nicole Kidman, 2017. ©A24/courtesy Everett Collection

In a film as consumed with masculine delusion as ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ it’s easy to see Kidman fall by the wayside as just the wife of Colin Farrell’s cursed cardiac surgeon, who is forced by the mysterious Martin (a terrifying Barry Keoghan) to choose one of his family members as a sacrifice. But Kidman is a shrewd performer, and she makes Anna a lot more interesting. She plays the part as warm and protective on the surface, but drops the polite veneer to reveal a deeply selfish streak as the film continues and the situation grows dire. It’s a chilly, remote performance, fitting for playing a woman willing to see one of her children die if it means she can live.

Opposite Farrell, she finds an absorbing anti-chemistry of sorts, displayed best in an excruciating sex scene that ranks among the most awkward in cinematic history. In the TV star stage of her career, Kidman has excelled at playing frazzled women in domestic distress; ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ twists that familiar type into far more complicated, unsympathetic directions. — WC

19. ‘Practical Magic’ (1998)

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as two twisted sisters at their respective ‘90s primes? It’s not the stuff of magic, but rather just divine casting. Kidman plays somewhat against type as a drug-addled, bad boy lover who reluctantly returns to her hometown after accidentally killing her abusive boyfriend with the help of her sister (Bullock). Oh, and both of them are witches who dabble in black magic, poison, exorcisms, and love spells. Kidman and Bullock dancing to ‘put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up’ while getting blasted on margaritas just might be one of the most iconic film scenes ever, and leaves this not quite rom-com among Kidman’s best roles. It’s Kidman at her most fun, loose, and sexy — and with some of her best hair ever. No small feat given the pantheon of Kidman hair looks. — SB

18. ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ (2017)

There is a glaring absence at the center of Jane Campion’s ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl,’ and it only grows as each of the six episodes plays out. Call it connection, recognition, or identity, what’s missing for each of the main characters in ‘China Girl’ edges further away as the story twists and turns — like a knife pressed against a fraying cord. For Robin (Elisabeth Moss), Pyke (Ewen Leslie), and Julia (Nicole Kidman), they’re clinging to the love between a parent and a child. All that matters is the title of ‘mom’ or ‘dad,’ which — for the latter two adopted parents and Moss’ birth mother — is a rank as cherished as it is fragile.

Knowing the power it bestows, Mary (Alice Englert) refuses to refer to Julia as her mother. Pyke and Julia’s impending divorce puts added strain on their already rebellious, risk-inclined daughter, and her increasingly dangerous acts of defiance send Kidman’s character tumbling, untethered, into an emptier and emptier void. Watching Julia’s inability to parent her child is both frustrating and convincing because her opposition is equal parts vehement and empty. Julia talks a good game. As an academic, she can counter the absurd provocations made by Mary’s cartoonishly evil older boyfriend, but language and reason have no impact on him. She’s not engaged in a war of words, where she’s comfortable, but a nasty, lawless cage match for the soul of her daughter, and she doesn’t realize it until it’s much, much too late.

By the final episode of ‘China Girl,’ it physically hurts to watch Julia’s persistent passivity. To Julia, if Mary refuses to recognize her own mother — what she’s done for her, how much she cares for her —then Julia may as well not exist. (A key scene in the finale finds a way to literalize these ideas in a truly heartbreaking confrontation.) Kidman, though, very much does exist, and she leaves an indelible mark on the series despite her character’s shrinking stature, threading the needle between disappearing entirely and stealing the spotlight. As the cast’s resident movie star, she could easily ham it up to convey her character’s struggle more dramatically — screaming instead of speaking, gesticulating rather than persisting — but such showboating wouldn’t serve Julia’s journey. She is a mother adrift, not a woman waiting for her big moment. That Kidman can inhabit such a minimal space, embodying one more powerless parent in an ensemble filled with them, is a testament to her professionalism as much as her talent. She turns absence into abundance, once again earning any recognition that comes her way. — BT

17. ‘The Beguiled’ (2017)

THE BEGUILED, from left: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, 2017. ph: Ben Rothstein/ © Focus Features /Courtesy Everett Collection

‘The Beguiled’ is a war story, but not necessarily about the American Civil War. It’s a war for the attention and attraction of a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) who finds himself, wounded, at a mostly abandoned girls school in Virginia, and it puts Nicole Kidman in her general era. As the headmistress Miss Farnsworth, everything she does — from a look, a little French phrase, the way she adjusts her posture — is all about conveying power and control to the other women and girls; the fact that all this is legible to the audience underneath a veneer of politeness is a better testament to how well she understands this Southern matron than even the slight twang of her accent. She goes much, much further than politeness as the movie unfolds, of course, but Kidman’s performance is so complete from the jump that she makes Miss Farnsworth’s choices both surprising and inevitable. — SS

16. ‘Rabbit Hole’ (2010)

RABBIT HOLE, Nicole Kidman, 2010. ph: Jojo Whilden/©Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection

John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Rabbit Hole’ lacks the wrenching immediacy of David Lindsay-Abaire’s original stage production, a character study of a grieving couple whose marriage frays following the death of their young son. Expanding the chamber drama to incorporate more characters and the world outside the couple’s house, the film saps the powder keg emotional intensity present on the page, resulting in a tearjerker that doesn’t quite ever provoke your tears.

When the film works, it works because of Kidman’s committed performance as Becca, the mother of the lost child struggling through her grief. Even in the pantheon of Kidman’s roles, Becca stands out as a particularly manic character, prone to acidic outbursts and frantic changes in emotional register. The film’s premise invites a certain level of melodrama, and it is to Kidman’s credit that it never goes too far in that direction. Even when Becca is at her most unlikable, you feel the despair she carries weighing down on her like an anchor. — WC

15. ‘Expats’ (2023)

EXPATS, Nicole Kidman, Mainland', (Season 1, ep. 104, aired Feb. 9, 2024). photo: Glen Wilson / ©Amazon / Courtesy Everett Collection

When a project lands a star of Kidman’s stature, it’s typically a good idea to take advantage, and that’s exactly what Lulu Wang does in her extraordinary original series, ‘Expats.’ From the jump, Kidman serves as a turning point for a story of grief, identity, and indecision. Using her well-deserved star turn to lay out her character’s essential framework, Kidman plays an American mother living abroad in Hong Kong who loses a child. Struggling to move forward without knowing if she should — is her son dead or alive? lost or abducted? — Margaret is a woman torn in two. Should she keep searching or mourn and move on? Should she forgive those involved or hold them, and everyone else, accountable? Should she down on her instincts or give in to the advice of her loved ones? Ultimately, these questions boil down to one: Should she stay or go?

Kidman gets a number of scenes filled with big, overwhelming emotions. Her ability to channel pain through fury is staggering, as is her emotional clarity in moments where conflict stirs varied reactions. (Her waiting room quarrel with Margaret’s husband Clarke, played by Brian Tee, is incredible.) But ‘Expats’ really takes off in quieter, everyday interactions. It’s the way she leaves an apartment, buys groceries, and goes about her life that gets under your skin; that makes you feel empathy not just for Margaret’s situation, but for Margaret herself (who isn’t always the most likeable person). Kidman understands this at an innate level, and her measured, acute depiction of an impossible-to-imagine situation grounds her character and makes the show around her all the more affecting. Kidman has movie star magnitude and charisma, to be sure, but seeing those qualities stripped away creates a thrilling new performance here. — BT

14. ‘Dead Calm’ (1989)

DEAD CALM, Nicole Kidman, 1989, ©Warner Bros./courtesy Everett

Kidman was 19 when the camera started rolling on Phillip Noyce’s high seas thriller about a couple dealing with grief over the death of their child by embarking on a long Pacific Ocean voyage alone on their yacht. Even then she was playing a member of the ultra rich! Her Rae is someone whose tragedy has made her numb to life, and she certainly doesn’t need another trauma — but the sheer terror of this voyage arguably jolts her back into feeling alive again. Her husband (Sam Neill) rescues the lone survivor, played by Billy Zane, of a derelict pleasure craft drifting on the ocean.

Zane’s character is psychotic, of course, and he quickly tries to get rid of the husband so he can be all alone with Rae. ‘What about those people?’ Rae asks the castaway about his crewmates’ fate. ‘Thayre wasn’t any food poisoning, was thayre?!’ Oh no, they definitely did not die because of spoiled provisions, Rae. Even with her then shrimp-on-the-barbie Aussie accent and playing a part that’s meant to assay merely various degrees of ‘being menaced,’ Kidman more than holds her own with a Zane playing derangement dialed up to 11. George Miller was a producer on ‘Dead Calm’ and it’s easy to see some proto-Furiosa in the way that Rae fights back. —CB

13. ‘Stoker’ (2013)

‘I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart,’ widowed mother Evelyn (Kidman) tells daughter India (Mia Wasikowska). That’s not in the cards, but you understand why India might be a little more willing to run wild with her newly discovered uncle (Matthew Goode) in the wake of her father’s death. Kidman is a mega-watt star, but she proves adept at waltzing away with an entire movie with a supporting role here, delivering an icy mother-from-hell for the ages, combining viciousness with off-kilter flirtation that adds a note of bleak comedy to director Park-chan Wook’s English-language debut. Inspired by ‘Shadow of a Doubt,’ ‘Stoker’ front-loads even more psychosexual intrigue to its story. —MP

12. ‘The Hours’ (2002)

THE HOURS, Nicole Kidman, 2002, (c) Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection

Anyone with a working knowledge of what types of roles win people Academy Awards would not be shocked that Kidman’s sole Oscar win for Best Actress comes from playing a historical figure. But that line of thinking discounts the work she put into making her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s domestic drama about three generations of women’s relationship to the novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ so singular.

Here was the final proving ground that the Australian actress was a utility to any director trying to execute a vision that may seem like too big of a swing on paper. Her immersion into Woolf’s world, demonstrating a creative force that pushed through tragic circumstances, is worthy of more consideration than ‘by a nose.’ — MJ

11. ‘Big Little Lies’ (2017)

A new subgenre of rich, complicated, occasionally boozing ladies with a mysterious past made its way to prestige TV with ‘Big Little Lies,’ based on the Liane Moriarty bestseller about a group of moms and the secrets they keep. Kidman is excellent as the buttoned up Celeste Wright who begins to spiral (another Kidman specialty) as she contemplate leaving her abusive husband (Alexander Skarsgard).

As written by David E. Kelley and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée in the superior first season, the TV role allowed Kidman the freedom to explore a character beyond the scope of a two-hour movie. It’s a well she’s now returned to several times over the years, but none surpass this purposefully chilly creation, for which she won an Emmy in 2017. — ES

10. ‘Malice’ (1993)

MALICE, Nicole Kidman, 1993, (c) Columbia/courtesy Everett Collection

The less you know about Harold Becker’s wonderfully fucked-up 1993 neo-noir ‘Malice,’ the better. Still, it’s fair to note that what makes Kidman — starring here alongside Alec Baldwin and Bill Pullman in an early Aaron Sorkin script chock-a-block with Sorkin-isms — so good is what always makes her good. To wit, that’s her ability to embody seemingly disparate emotions and motivations in one wicked performance.

While other early examples — like ‘Far and Away’ and ‘Days of Thunder’ — rely on audiences liking Kidman’s characters and feeling warm to them, in Becker’s film, Kidman puts that idea on its head. Yes, we like Kidman’s charming newlywed Tracy, and damn, do we feel for her when she endures a medical emergency that seems to threaten her idyllic life with sweet husband Andy (Pullman). But… that’s not all there is to it, and the joy and pleasure of the film and Kidman’s work within it is watching all of that collapse in truly unexpected ways. — KE

9. ‘Margot at the Wedding’ (2007)

MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, 2007. ©Paramount Classics/courtesy Everett Collection

Noah Baumbach’s 2007 dramedy is one of his most caustic, and Kidman is at her most fearless in the title role — her character, a neurotic, prickly, judgmental fiction author, seems intentionally calculated to offend. Kidman’s genius lies in her ability to avoid sanding off any of the character’s rough edges while still letting the humanity push through to the surface; as Kidman herself noted at the time of the film’s release, ‘…the spikiness and the guardedness and the anger is actually a manifestation of her need to protect herself. She’s not in a safe place, really, because her sister doesn’t know how to take care of her, and she doesn’t know how to take care of her sister… They feel like they should be very, very close, but they actually do not bring out the best in each other.’ All of this and more comes across in Kidman’s extraordinarily subtle performance, one of her most nastily amusing and profoundly moving. — JH

8. ‘Days of Thunder’ (1990)

DAYS OF THUNDER, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, 1990

Kidman’s international breakout remains a high point of her early career, a high-octane banger that combines visceral thrills and only-in-the-movies touches (who in their right mind wears a white blazer to a NASCAR race?) and remains an incredible ode to her sex appeal. To put it mildly, Tony Scott’s ‘Days of Thunder’ rules (and is also the only film to bear the wonderous twinned screenwriting credits of ‘Robert Towne and Tom Cruise’), but much of that is due to Kidman’s uncanny ability to fuse steely reserve with wild abandon.

Kidman plays Dr. Claire Lewicki, a neurosurgeon who finds herself entangled with the rowdy high-jinks of both newbie driver Cole Trickle (Cruise) and his literally nutso rival Rowdy (Michael Rooker). In her role, Kidman is tasked with channeling both big ‘you’re all a bunch of boys!’ energy (‘and yerrrr scarrrrred!’) and a deep desire for Cole and his let’s-go-fast nature. The result? An internal battle that’s hot and wild and absolutely electric to watch. —KE

7. ‘To Die For’ (1995)

After years of turning in fine work in thrillers (‘Dead Calm,’ ‘Malice’) dramas (‘Billy Bathgate’) and epic action films (‘Days of Thunder,’ ‘Far and Away’), Nicole Kidman proved she could also be hilarious in this wickedly funny media satire about a small town reporter whose ruthless ambition leads to murder. Using a Joyce Maynard novel (which was itself based on a true event) as source material, screenwriter Buck Henry and director Gus Van Sant gave Kidman her most layered and original character to date here, and like the character she plays she took the opportunity and ran with it.

Her performance is pitch-perfect: heightened but believable, superficially sweet and amiable with a constant undercurrent of savagery, and filled with impulses both self-aware and self-destructive. Much of her story is told via her own narration in a series of close-ups directed toward the camera, and in these moments Kidman and her character have nowhere to hide — we see every thought, feeling, and decision coming across with cruel and gleeful precision. —JH

6. ‘The Paperboy’ (2012)

THE PAPERBOY, Nicole Kidman, 2012. ph: Anne Marie Fox/©Millennium Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection

For some, Lee Daniels’ sweaty late-‘60s grindhouse absurdity ‘The Paperboy’ is only so bad it’s good. But Daniels’ brazenly serious commitment to such silly pulp material — including Matthew McConaughey as a swaggering reporter back in his hometown to cover a death-row inmate (John Cusack) — warrants serious attention. At the time this film rolled around at Cannes 2012, Nicole Kidman was delightfully the most fun she had been in years as vamping vixen Charlotte Bless, determined to clear her husband’s (Cusack) name.

She pees on Zac Efron! She humps a chair during a prison meeting while eye-fucking Cusack! She’s out of control, sex oozing out of her, her blonde hair and plumped limps all but siren-calling the camera. Kidman is wrongly not acclaimed enough as a comic actress, and in ‘The Paperboy,’ she lets loose in a way she hadn’t before or hasn’t since. —RL

5. ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999)

Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ is the anatomy of the marriage of Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice Hartford (Nicole Kidman) and, in hindsight, also the anatomy of the marriage between Cruise and Kidman. They spent over 15 months shooting the sleepwalking psychosexual drama, which follows Dr. Bill’s plunge into a kinky conspiratorial underworld. Who sends him into the precipice? Kidman as Alice who, in a scorching pot-fueled monologue (‘it’s not the pot, it’s you!’), reveals all the loose ends in their marriage and exposes Bill’s worst insecurities.

While Kidman gets less screen time than Cruise, her performance is unforgettably eerie and almost somnambulent — like the way she drunkily flirts with an art dealer before turning him down. Why? He asks. ‘Becaaaaause,’ she says with a champagne drawl. ‘I’m maaaaaarried .’ — RL

4. ‘The Others’ (2001)

THE OTHERS, Nicole Kidman, 2001, (c) Dimension Films/courtesy Everett Collection

Kidman isn’t exactly an actor people label as a Scream Queen, but some of her richest and most arresting performances toe the line into the realm of psychological horror. Take the 2001 ghost story ‘The Others,’ a gorgeously crafted ghost story that casts her as the gothic heroine. A 1945 housewife awaiting her husband’s return from the war, Kidman’s Grace is a rigid Catholic woman whose faith and composure are tested when she and her children are subject to strange supernatural phenomena around their British island country home.

Alejandro Amenábar’s film is notable for its dripping atmosphere and gorgeous style, and Kidman complements that with a great sense of presence, between her statuesque body language and icy blue eyes. But as the supernatural incidents pile up and Grace’s composure is unsettled, Kidman ably frays and dissolves onscreen, her eyes turning buggy and her stature growing shaky. It’s an underrated challenge to depict pure horror on screen, but Kidman makes it look easy. —WC

3. ‘Dogville’ (2003)

Lars von Trier centers his Brechtian-inspired ‘Dogville’ around a blockbuster movie star, whose under-a-bell-jar image he set upon to deconstruct: Nicole Kidman. Freshly off her Best Actress Oscar win for ‘The Hours’ and also out of her messily public but oddly inscrutable divorce from Tom Cruise, Kidman flew to rural Trollhättan in Sweden to get on a soundstage with von Trier and his cast.

Grace Mulligan (Kidman) is on the run from her gangster father (James Caan) in a hardscrabble town whose residents’ largesse eventually turns to disgust and disdain, and they degrade and debase her to a breaking point. Ar least, until she decides to take it no longer.

This is one of Kidman’s boldest and most unvarnished performances, a complete 180 from her prior star turns, and an indication that Kidman would never let herself get too comfortable in her choice of roles. — RL

2. ‘Birth’ (2004)

BIRTH, Nicole Kidman, 2004, (c) New Line/courtesy Everett Collection

Jonathan Glazer’s drama starring Nicole Kidman as a woman confronted by her past perplexed audiences and critics when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. But there’s no denying it’s one of Kidman’s crowning achievements and certainly most out-there turns.

Anna (Kidman) is understandably quite jolted when a 10-year-old boy shows up at her Manhattan doorstep claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. She’s meanwhile readying to marry someone else, the vanilla Joseph (Danny Huston), and this chain of events sends her into confusion and questioning. A masterful long take of Kidman settling into her seat at the opera after the news of her dead husband’s possible return comes crashing and swelling down around her is a testament to her ability to telegraph emotions merely from the quickening of her heartbeat and the slow cascade of panic on her face. — RL

1. ‘Moulin Rouge! (2001)

MOULIN ROUGE!, Nicole Kidman, Richard Roxburgh, 2001, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection

‘Oh poetry, yes. Yes. Yes! This is what I want: Naughty words!’ Kidman achieves a true career peak in Baz Luhrmann’s movie-length tribute to the ways in which performance plays into all aspects of life, from the bedroom to the ballroom and beyond.

As ‘the sparking diamond’ Satine, a courtesan in fin-de-siècle Paris, Kidman picks up the baton from Marilyn Monroe and delivers a rendition of ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’ with top hat and riding crop that kicks off the adrenalized star part to follow over the next two hours. Despite endless remixes of late 20th-century pop hits, as much CGI as you’d find in a ‘Star Wars’ prequel, Kylie Minogue as a green fairy, and Placido Domingo as the singing moon, Kidman commands the screen, bending it all to her will — and still conveying fragility underneath. You can see her turn uncertainty into determination with a straightening of her spine and a lift of her chin after she’s just proclaimed Freddie Mercury’s ‘I’ll top the bill, I’ll earn the kill, I’ll have to find the will to carry on with the, on with the, on with THE SHOW!’ and walks past the camera to go and break poor Ewan McGregor’s heart.

This is a tribute to the interplay of artifice and authenticity in fueling sexuality as potent as any of Marlene Dietrich’s portraits of women leading men to their doom with Josef von Sternberg — and Luhrmann finds ever more screens and shadows and lighting effects to make Kidman into a Eurydice-like mirage. No popular spectacle this century has been driven by a performance as singular as hers here. —CB

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N.J.’s Mira Sorvino ‘gutsick’ over Harvey Weinstein conviction being overturned

Updated: Apr. 26, 2024, 12:45 a.m. |
Published: Apr. 25, 2024, 9:37 p.m.

Mira Sorvino was one of the many people who made allegations against Harvey Weinstein in 2017. Randy Shropshire | Getty Images

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Mira Sorvino went public with her Harvey Weinstein story in 2017.

The Oscar-winning actor from New Jersey became one in a long series of people to make allegations against the Hollywood producer.

So when the New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction Thursday, Sorvino had something to say.

“Gutsick,” she said on Instagram. “To all of my sister/brother/fellow survivors out there, it just means we have to love harder, and fight harder. Evil rears its ugly head but we are the army of light and will prevail.”

As The Associated Press reported, the court overturned Weinstein’s sentence of 23 years in prison .

The appeals court said “the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts .”

Weinstein remains in prison because he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison .

Mira Sorvino in 1995, the year she says Harvey Weinstein made sexual advances in her hotel room. Suzanne Kreiter | The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Earlier Thursday, Sorvino, who grew up in Tenafly, panned the New York court’s decision to overturn Weinstein’s conviction.

“Horrified!” she said on X, formerly Twitter.

“Day after #DenimDay honoring sexual violence survivors, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction overturned, due partly to ( Molineux ) witnesses testifying to prior bad acts, like lioness Annabella Sciorra,” said Sorvino, 56. “Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted? He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew twds predators not victims.”

Denim Day , marked annually on the last Wednesday of April — Sexual Assault Awareness Month — was founded by the nonprofit Peace Over Violence.

Its name comes from the 1992 case of a teen rape victim in Italy. The perpetrator’s conviction was overturned in 1998 because the victim was wearing tight jeans. The decision, from the Italian Supreme Court, said that because the pants were tight, the victim must have helped the man take them off. Women in the Italian parliament wore jeans in solidarity with the victim.

For this reason, Sorvino wore jeans the day before Weinstein’s conviction was overturned .

“I wear it for sister survivors of sexual violence,” she said in an Instagram post.

Sorvino went public with her allegations against Weinstein in Ronan Farrow’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker story about the Hollywood mogul, which along with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Weinstein story from Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in The New York Times , helped to energize the #MeToo movement.

Sorvino said Weinstein made sexual advances toward her in 1995, massaging her shoulders in a hotel room in Toronto, “sort of chasing me around,” she said.

In the same story, actor Annabella Sciorra said Weinstein raped her after forcing himself into her apartment in 1993. (Sciorra was nominated for an Emmy for playing Gloria Trillo in “The Sopranos.” )

Sorvino, who won an Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite” in 1996, said fighting back against Weinstein came with consequences to her career.

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Director Peter Jackson supported this when he said that Weinstein’s Miramax blocked Sorvino and fellow Weinstein accuser Ashley Judd from the casting process for “ The Lord of the Rings ” movies. Director Terry Zwigoff said much the same for the movie “ Bad Santa ” (2003).

“We live in a culture in which sexual harassment and rape are rife , part of the power dynamic between men and women in the workplace ,” Sorvino said in Time magazine in 2017. “That my silence could be complicit in its continued thriving, possibly putting other young girls and women (and boys and men) in danger in Hollywood and beyond, was not something I could live with.”

Later, in 2019, Sorvino shared that she had also been a victim of date rape .

“It is hard to have lived through sexual harassment, assault, career damage in retaliation for refusing a predator, and rape,” she said in her Denim Day post the day before Weinstein’s conviction was overturned.

“Some days it feels crushing. But one thing I know is that we are stronger together, when we help each other, love each other, raise our voices together and make change, facing a culture that accepted these abuses as de rigeur and now must understand that we cannot go on as a human race with so many people, women and men, boys, girls and non gender conforming people, children and the elderly, being at the receiving end of this sickening violence. We see you, we hear you, we love you. We have your back.”

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