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Cruise Confirms Days of Thunder Sequel
Tom Cruise announced a Days of Thunder sequel with Anne Hathaway in a Saturday video from Daytona International Speedway, posing beside a lime-green NASCAR car tagged for summer 2028. Paramount dated the theatrical IMAX release for June 2, 2028, nearly 40 years after Tony Scott's 1990 original. Cruise returns as Cole Trickle; Hathaway plays a race-team owner and engineer. Jonathan Levine directs from a Will Staples script, with Cruise producing alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper. Variety reports exclusive theater formats including Dolby Cinema and 4DX. Pregnant Hathaway joked filming waits until after the baby; production is eyed for 2027. The project is Cruise's first major IP follow-up after winding down Mission: Impossible, alongside another Top Gun and prestige work, guaranteeing NASCAR-nostalgia and casting discourse across entertainment feeds.
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Dolly’s Wish Mended Cyrus Rift
Dolly Parton died Tuesday, August 25, at 80 after a brief battle with cancer, and a National Examiner source on Yahoo says Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus are mourning while pledging to honor her last wishes—including ending the family fighting that had torn them apart. Billy Ray, 65, befriended Parton after 1990s touring and asked her to be godmother when he and then-girlfriend Tish Cyrus expected Miley; Parton told Howard Stern in 2023 she was “honored” and stayed “very, very close.” The source says Dolly was “a guiding light,” pushed Miley’s sobriety, and gave Billy Ray tough love with understanding. Examiner reports she “played a big part in helping” Billy Ray and Miley, 33, “patch things up” when their relationship hit “rock bottom,” while loving siblings Brandi, Trace, Christopher, Braison, and Noah. Both have promised to live in ways that would make her proud after the “Jolene” singer’s death.
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Cruise Green-Flags Thunder Sequel 2028
Tom Cruise, 64, hopped a row of potted plants onto a Daytona stage Saturday and told 40 Cup drivers he is bringing Cole Trickle back. Paramount dated the Days of Thunder follow-up for June 2, 2028, nearly 40 years after Tony Scott’s 1990 NASCAR film. Anne Hathaway, 43, will play a team owner and engineer. Cruise posted Instagram video from Daytona International Speedway posing with pregnant Hathaway beside a neon-green race car; she told the camera, “I’m gonna have this baby, and then we’re gonna make this movie.” Jonathan Levine directs a Will Staples script. Cruise produces with Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper. Variety reports the film will be shot for IMAX and released exclusively in theaters, including Dolby Cinema and 4DX. Cruise waved a green flag hours before NASCAR’s regular-season finale, then sat the drivers’ meeting. He told the room the sequel is about racing’s community, speed, “and all that danger and stuff.”
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Written-Off Coyote Humiliates Warner At Box
Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes hybrid Warner Bros. killed in 2023 for a tax write-off, opened Friday via indie Ketchup Entertainment and is tracking about $14 million from 3,575 theaters — a record start for the distributor, more than four times its prior high of $3.1 million. It earned an A CinemaScore, 93% positive PostTrak, and a 95% Certified Fresh critics score. Rotten Tomatoes audience is 94% from 500-plus ratings, the best of any Looney Tunes movie in 51 years, ahead of Space Jam and 2025's The Day the Earth Blew Up. Ketchup paid about $50 million for global rights and spent roughly $10 million on P&A. The film still trails Spider-Man: Brand New Day (about $21 million, fifth weekend, nearing $900 million domestic) and is neck-and-neck with The Odyssey. Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars, starring Jacob Elordi, is collapsing toward $8 million with a C+ CinemaScore. Fans are treating Wile E. Coyote's lawsuit comedy as a rescue mission against the studio that tried to bury it.
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Cruise Recruits Hathaway For Thunder Sequel
Paramount locked a Days of Thunder sequel on Saturday, pairing Tom Cruise with Anne Hathaway and setting a June 2, 2028 theatrical date. Cruise posted it himself: the two A-listers leaning on a NASCAR stock car in Daytona. He returns as Cole Trickle from Tony Scott's 1990 racing film; Hathaway plays a team owner and engineer. Plot details stay sealed. Jonathan Levine directs a Will Staples script, a hire that fast-tracked the movie as Cruise's next starring gig after Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger (Oct. 2). Cruise produces with Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper. It will be shot for IMAX and play Dolby Cinema, 4DX, and other premium formats. The original took $82.6 million domestic and $157.9 million worldwide and is the set where Cruise met Nicole Kidman. Hathaway is coming off The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, and The End of Oak Street, with Verity also due Oct. 2. First Cruise-Hathaway pairing, nearly 38 years after Trickle first hit the track.
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Tom Hardy Raps Shakespeare As Bane
Tom Hardy dropped a 15-track rap album Friday under the alias Frankie Pulitzer, a collaboration with underground trio Czarface (7L & Esoteric plus Wu-Tang's Inspectah Deck) titled Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer. Features include Busta Rhymes, Method Man, and EL-P. The verses are stuffed with movie and comic Easter eggs: Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, Doctor Doom, and Dog Day Afternoon on "Raw Forever." On "Mad Technology" he name-checks Cujo and Misery, then delivers an X-rated Kathy Bates line already circulating as the most clipped bar. The sticky moment is "Grim-Visaged War," where he recites Shakespeare's Richard III monologue in the muffled Bane voice from The Dark Knight Rises. Hardy has not spoken publicly as Frankie Pulitzer, but he has appeared on prior Czarface records and recorded an unreleased 1999 mixtape as Tommy No. 1 that leaked in 2018. He told the BBC in 2011 he started rapping at 14 and "wasn't very good."