Tom Cruise praises Glen Powell’s new movie The Running Man

The “Top Gun: Maverick” costars reunited at the London premiere of “The Running Man,” directed by Edgar Wright and based on the novel by Stephen King.

Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Glen Powell and Tom Cruise at the premiere of The Running Man

Tom Cruise enjoyed The Running Man.

Cruise recently joined his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Glen Powell at the London premiere of the latter’s new action thriller The Running Man, and according to Cruise, Powell and the rest of the team “crushed it”!

Posted Cruise on his Instagram: “Another great night out with my friends at the movies! You guys crushed it, congratulations! I laughed, was on the edge of my seat, and ate way too much popcorn.”

Glen Powell, director Edgar Wright, Colman Domingo, Emilia Jones, Tom Cruise and Lee Pace at the London premiere of The Running Man

Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian story about Ben Richards (Powell), a working-class man desperate to save his sick daughter. Out of options, Ben joins the top-rated show on television called The Running Man – a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. It is a competition that no one has survived. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite – and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall. The movie is directed by Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead) and also stars Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, Lee Pace, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera and William H. Macy.

Watch the newly released final trailer:

At Cinema Con in April, Cruise and Powell also shared a fun moment at the red carpet with Wright, Brolin and Domingo. While posing for photos with the team, Cruise joked, “See, I’m in The Running Man, too.” To which Powell quipped: “I will say that all of my running technique did come straight from Tom.”

Get ready for the hunt to begin when The Running Man opens only in cinemas November 12.

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LG takes Flight with its New Line of Monitors

LG Philippines unveiled its new lineup of monitors and showcased its newest, powerful and most technologically advanced monitors yet, in a Top Gun-themed event hosted by Andrei “Dreister” Felix.

LG PH Managing Director Sungjae 'Airboss' Kim, product director Peter 'Pirate' Uhm, with the country's top gamers, content creators and creatives: Magic Liwanag, LA Tenorio, Myrtle Sarrosa, Gab Valenciano and Eric Tai. The event was hosted by Andrei Felix

According to Sungjae “Airboss” Kim, managing director for LG Philippines, the company remains committed to innovating and enhancing its monitor line-up to adpt to the needs of its consumers. He added, “We’ve made great strides to elevate the user-experience of our monitors–from adapting to flexible workstations and upgrading our systems with new generation gaming standards.”

Meanwhile, the country’s most influential gamers, creatives and content creators attest to the power, image quality and versatility of LG’s latest monitor line-up. Eric "Eruption" Tai, LA "PBA Ironman" Tenorio, Magic Liwanag, Myrtle "MyrtleGail" Sarrosa, and Gab Valenciano are very impressed with the features of the latest monitors and regarded its beautiful performance to their leisure and productive activities.

Eric 'Eruption' Tai with LG Jane Pactoranan, LG's Business Development Manager

LA 'PBA Ironman' Tenorio with Janille Umali, B2B Marketing Communications Officer

Magic Liwanag with Greg De Jesus, Home Entertainment Marketing Communications Officer

Myrtle 'MyrtleGail' Sarrosa with Ryan Nulud, IT Monitor, Sales and Marketing Manager

Gab 'Viper' Valenciano with MyrtleGail and Ryan Nulud

LG Philippines also reaffirmed its commitment to help the community through its products and technologies through a large donation-in-kind of 30 LG UltraGear 32GN500 monitor units to the Naval Air Wing of the Philippine Fleet which they can use in their Operating Squadron Offices and Flight Briefing Stations, Command and Control Center, Operations Center, flight simulation rooms to display lectures, flight deck videos, flight performance briefing and debriefing, active weather information, flight monitoring information to further capacitate them in their performance of duties during Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance, Airborne ISR and Humanitarian and Disaster Response missions.

LG PH Managing Director Sungjae Kim with the members of the Naval Air Wing -- Philippine Fleet

The LG 2022 monitors are now available in your favorite authorized retailers and LG’s official flagship stores in Lazada and Shopee. You may follow LG Philippines’ social media pages or visit their official website at www.lg.com/ph for more updates.

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Tom Cruise talks about creating the sequel to Top Gun

Thirty-six years after portraying Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun, Tom Cruise returns to the iconic role that catapulted him to global superstardom, with the long-awaited sequel, Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick (in Philippine cinemas May 25).

“I’d thought about a sequel to Top Gun for all these years,” says Cruise. “People had asked for a sequel for decades. Decades. And the thing I said to the studio from the beginning was: ‘If I’m ever going to entertain this, we’re shooting everything practically. I’m in that F/A-18, period. So, we’re going to have to develop camera rigs. There’s going to be wind tunnels and engineering. It’s going to take a long, long time for me to figure it out.’ For years, people had said, ‘Can’t you shoot [the movie] with CGI?’ And I always said, ‘No. That’s not the experience.’ I said, ‘I need to find the right story. And we’re going to need the right team. This movie is like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. I’m not playing.’”

On the original movie, although Cruise was filmed in the cockpit of an F-14 Tomcat, his castmates weren’t so successful in their endeavors. “We had other actors up there, flying,” says legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer. “Tom was the only one we had usable flight footage for. We had tons of footage of the other actors in the air with their eyes rolling back in their heads. This time, thanks to Tom, all the actors on Top Gun: Maverick became accustomed to the fundamentals and mechanics of flight and G-forces, because of all the training they did months in advance. Unlike the first film, our actors are actually in the cockpits of the F/A-18s in flight, acting and speaking their lines of dialogue.”

Cruise says there is a “majesty and beauty” in flying an airplane. “It’s both using and defying nature,” he says. “And playing Maverick again, at a different stage of his life, has been an incredible experience for me. Maverick is still Maverick. He still wants to fly Mach 2 with his hair on fire. But you see the transition that Maverick undergoes. The pressure of him losing his best friend, the responsibility he feels about that and how he has carried that with him. This film is about family and it’s about friendship and it’s about sacrifice. It’s about redemption and the cost of mistakes.”

And that emotion hasn’t just been up on screen, but behind the scenes, on a journey that has taken the makers of Top Gun: Maverick both back in time and forward, into new frontiers in filmmaking. “What we have achieved with the aerial sequences is genuinely something that people will never have seen before,” says Cruise. “We’ve trained actors to be able to fly and perform in real F/A-18s. And, to do that, we took the greatest fighter pilots in the world [from the U.S. Navy] and we taught them about movies – the pilot and the actor had to work as a team. This is the sophistication of the aerial sequences. No one’s ever done this, ever.”

It’s not just pride that Cruise feels, though. Top Gun: Maverick isn’t just a movie – it’s a destination. A culmination of everything he has learned in his 40 years in this business (Cruise’s debut, Endless Love, was released on July 17, 1981), this is a story he’s been building towards. A love letter to aviation, for sure. But a love letter to movies too.

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Prepare for take off in Top Gun: Maverick's character posters

Meet the class' best of the best. Check out the character posters of the cast of Top Gun: Maverick lead by Tom Cruise. Coming to theaters and IMAX on May 25.

Top Gun: Maverick is distributed in the Philippines by Paramount Pictures through Columbia Pictures.

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Lady Gaga's "Hold My Hand" is Top Gun: Maverick's Official Soundtrack

After more than 30 years, Tom Cruise produces a sequel for his aviation adventure in Top Gun: Maverick which will be released in Philippine theaters, May 25. With that, Oscar and Grammy winner, Lady Gaga creates a ballad that will be the movie's official soundtrack entitled "Hold My Hand."

Watch the official music video featuring clips from the old and new Top Gun movies. The song Hold My Hand is written and produced by Lady Gaga and BloodPop, with additional production from Benjamin Rice.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris.

The film is written by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, based the characters created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie and David Ellison.

Top Gun: Maverick is distributed in the Philippines by Paramount Pictures through Columbia Pictures.

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Cast of Top Gun: Maverick's intense pilot training

After more than thirty years, the producers of Top Gun: Maverick including Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer felt the need for a sequel. The best aerial movie that inspired a generation is getting a part 2 that will speed to the theaters and IMAX on May 25.

In this behind the scenes featurette of Top Gun: Maverick, cast Tom Cruise (Maverick) suits back up and reviewed his piloting skills together with Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris. Assisted by the US Navy and Air Force, the cast went through gruesome aviation training and even a crash course on cinematography. They had experienced flying on the L39s, F18 Super Hornet to give them a feel of flying an aircraft. Watch the video below.

The film is written by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, based the characters created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie and David Ellison.

Top Gun: Maverick is distributed in the Philippines by Paramount Pictures through Columbia Pictures. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/paramountpicsph/

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