Overview
- Channel 4 is broadcasting Top Gun: Maverick tonight at 8 p.m., making the 2022 hit free to watch in the UK without a subscription.
- Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 original.
- The film earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and holds high critic and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Coverage reports a global box office of about £1.185 billion, making it Cruise’s highest-grossing film to date.
- The ensemble includes Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer in what outlets note as his final acting role.