Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise is gearing up to fly back for a third installment of "Top Gun." A script for another iteration of the high-octane aviation movie franchise is in the works at Paramount, an individual close to the project told CNN.

Much-anticipated action film "Top Gun: Maverick" was expected to have a big opening and it did not disappoint, taking in an estimated $151 million in North America for the four-day Memorial Day weekend, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported.

It has been 36 years since Tom Cruise donned his aviators, jumped into a fighter jet and ascended Hollywood's A-list with "Top Gun" and, finally, a sequel is about to land.

"I was a little slow, sometimes I'm a little slow," Cruise joked to AFP at the world premiere of "Top Gun: Maverick," held aboard a retired U.S. aircraft carrier in San Diego on May 4.

Tom Cruise unveiled the world-first screening of "Top Gun: Maverick" at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 28, introducing the long-awaited sequel while balanced atop a flying bi-plane.

The Cannes Film Festival on April 1 confirmed that "Top Gun: Maverick," the long-delayed sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise actioner, will screen as part of Cannes' 75th-anniversary edition, the Hollywood Reporter has reported.

Tom Cruise sealed his reputation for performing his own dangerous stunts as "Mission Impossible" footage of him riding a motorbike off a treacherous cliff stunned movie theater bosses at their annual convention on Aug. 26.

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