Tom Cruise to Be Feted at Cannes Film Festival

Hollywood star Tom Cruise will be feted at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

The honoring will be held on May 18 and begin with a special tribute to Cruise and his outstanding career.

He will also take part in a conversation with journalist Didier Allouch, followed by the premiere of his highly-anticipated movie “Top Gun: Maverick” in an Official Selection Screening at Cannes.

The honoring comes thirty years after Cruise attended the closing ceremony of the 45th edition of Cannes for Ron Howard’s "Far and Away" on May 18, 1992.

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“Top Gun: Maverick” is the sequel to the 1986’s movie “Top Gun” and sees Cruise and Kilmer reprising their roles.

It also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

Joseph Kosinski directed from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie as well as a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks.

The movie picks up 30 years after the events of the original “Top Gun” and features Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (played by Cruise) now working at the prestigious United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program that he attended in the original.

He is forced to navigate the increasingly complex world of drone warfare as he mentors a new generation of Navy pilots.

“Top Gun: Maverick” hit theaters on May 27.