World News for Students of English

16-04-2021 15:00

Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1980s classic Top Gun starring Tom Cruise, is the latest major blockbuster to skip the summer movie season.

The movie was previously expected to open on July 2, 2021, which itself was a delay from September 23, 2020, and it will now premiere on November 19, 2021. Tom Cruise’s other big franchise play for Paramount Pictures, Mission: Impossible 7, is being delayed all the way to 2022.

A specific reason wasn’t given for the change; however, one of the reasons could be that while the COVID-19 situation is improving in the US, the vaccine rollout hasn’t been so fast in other countries where films like Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible stand to get big box office receipts. Some countries are heading into another lockdown, and Paramount Pictures is waiting until the entire world is ready to surge the box office of Tom Cruise’s two highly anticipated sequels.

Difficult words: blockbuster (a film or book that is a great commercial success), premiere (to have a first public performance), franchise (a series of stories), box office (a place where the tickets to a theatre or cinema are bought, often used to refer to the commercial success of a film or play), surge (to have a lot of people or things come at one time; also when a sickness becomes very widespread.

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