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top gun maverick youtube new official trailer

A new official trailer has been released for Top Gun: Maverick, with Tom Cruise reprising his role thirty-six years after the original 1986 blockbuster movie was released. The film's release has faced multiple delays but the premiere date has FINALLY been announced.

Cruise is flying back into his role as Pete "Maverick” Mitchell and in this film, after thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s stop aviators, he’s shown moving into a teaching position. Due to the request of Admiral Kazansky (Val Kilmer), Maverick is called to train TOP GUN graduates for a special mission. The film's synopsis explains:

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.'

The film's production began way back in 2010 with offers made for the sequel by Paramount Pictures, and Cruise’s involvement in the film was first announced in January of 2016. Filming officially started in 2018 and was originally scheduled for release in July of 2019 but was held back due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then further delayed with scheduling conflicts with Cruise.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film has Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer reprising their roles from the first film and also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis and Ed Harris.

The film is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18th, 2022 and will be released in cinemas around Australia on Thursday the 26th of May, 2022.

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20220330 aussie mum $5050 money hack viral header

It’s never too late to start saving money, and one Aussie mum has a terrific hack for putting away $5,050 that's going viral!

Tik Tok user beckyturoczi has given us a quick and easy tutorial for her money challenge and it involves one of those giant money box tins.

She writes the numbers 1 to 100 on a sheet of paper and tapes it to the tin.

The goal is to add the dollar amount for each number listed, then mark the number off with a sticker.

When you've marked off all numbers, you'll have $5,050!

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In her video tutorial, she puts a $50 note into the tin, then places a sticker over the number 50.

Too easy, and a great inbuilt goal as you work through the individual dollar amounts either randomly or from 1 to 100.

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There’s some discussion in the comments on whether mixing coins and notes will cause the notes to break down and rip.

But we reckon that depends on how long the money might be sitting in there.

If it's a long-term goal, notes only might be better. 

Given we've gone mostly cashless with covid, it's fun to have a saving goal that requires physical money being put away so you can actually see your savings at the end!

What do you think of this saving method? Got your own hack to share?

Image: Tik Tok/beckyturoczi 

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Tributes are seen by a statue of Shane Warne outside the MCG in Melbourne, Monday, March 28, 2022. More than 42,000 people have booked to attend Shane Warne's state memorial service at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

Tributes are seen by a statue of Shane Warne outside the MCG in Melbourne, Monday, March 28, 2022 (AAP Image/Luis Ascui) 

Shane Warne, one of Melbourne's biggest personalities, will be given one of the grandest farewells the city has ever seen.

Almost four weeks since the cricket legend's death in Thailand, a memorial service at the MCG on Wednesday will be attended by up to 65,000 people.

It will be a celebration like no other as celebrities and the Victorian public pay tribute to a larger-than-life character who transcended sport.

With 50,000 seats already taken, another 10,000-15,000 tickets have been released to ensure it becomes one of the biggest memorial services in Australian history.

An estimated 300,000 mourners turned out for General Sir John Monash's farewell in 1931, while more than 100,000 people lined the streets of Melbourne for long-serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies' funeral in 1978.

But this service will be as unique as Warne himself.

A number of international stars, including Elton John, Chris Martin, Robbie Williams and Ed Sheeran will perform remotely, while Australian rocker Jon Stevens will front a band playing some of Warne's favourite INXS and Noiseworks songs.

Iconic Australians Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Kylie and Dannii Minogue, James Packer, Eric Bana, Greg Norman, as well as American surfing legend Kelly Slater, will also pay tribute to arguably the country's greatest-ever cricketer after Don Bradman.

Great mate Aaron Hamill, who played 98 AFL games for Warne's beloved St Kilda, is confident the send-off will capture the larrikin's spirit.

"He'd be bloody shattered he's missed it," Hamill said.

"I know that - this sort of shindig would be right up his alley, particularly in Melbourne.

"I know he'd be really humbled, he'd be really proud to get the recognition, he never seeked it but he'd certainly be sitting up there, with probably a dart (cigarette) in hand, and very grateful.

"He often used to talk about seizing the moment and the opportunity and there is no fear within. And that's really how he attacked life."

Four out of Australia's five free-to-air TV networks will broadcast the service, while Fox Sports have dedicated four of their channels to broadcast Warne content in the lead-up to the event.

It will also be livestreamed on the Victorian Government website.

Warne's three children - Brooke, Summer and Jackson - his father Keith and brother Jason will also speak while the Shane Warne Stand, formerly known as the Great Southern Stand, will be formally unveiled.

The two-hour event will get underway at 7pm AEDT.

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20220329 will smith apologises

Will Smith has issued an apology for his behaviour at the Oscars (Image: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY/Sipa USA /AAP Image, Instagram/willsmith)

The day after slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards, actor Will Smith has issued an apology to the comedian, saying he was "out of line".

The fallout from Sunday's Oscars continued on Monday as the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences condemned Smith's onstage assault and promised to launch an inquiry.

Later in the day, Smith gave a stronger apology than he did during his best-actor acceptance speech, which notably did not include a mention of Rock.

"Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive," Smith said.

"My behaviour at last night's Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable.

"Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada's medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.

"I would like to publicly apologise to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong.

"I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.

"There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness."

Smith added apologies to the film academy, producers of the telecast, attendees, viewers and the Williams family.

Smith was honoured with the best actor Oscar for his role as Richard Williams, father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena.

"I am a work in progress," Smith said.

Earlier on Monday, the film academy had released a statement condeming Smith's actions.

"We have officially started a formal review around the incident and will explore further action and consequences in accordance with our bylaws, standards of conduct and California law," they said.

Smith shocked the Dolby Theatre crowd and viewers at home when he took to the stage during Rock's presentation, after the comedian made a joke about the hair of Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor's wife.

The joke touched a nerve. Pinkett Smith, whose head is shaved, has spoken publicly about her alopecia diagnosis.

Smith strode on stage and slapped Rock across the face. Back in his seat, Smith twice shouted for Rock to "get my wife's name out your f***ing mouth."

Within an hour, Smith was back on stage to collect the best actor award. During his acceptance speech, he apologised to the academy and his fellow nominees.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it was aware of the incident but not pursuing an investigation because the person involved declined to file a police report.

Whoopi Goldberg, a member of the Academy's board of governors, said on Monday on The View: "We're not going to take that Oscar from him. There will be consequences, I'm sure".

The Screen Actors Guild also weighed in, calling the incident "unacceptable" and said "violence or physical abuse in the workplace is never acceptable".

A sense of disbelief hung in the air at the Dolby Theatre after Smith's assault.

Not only was it a hard-to-fathom break with decorum on live national television - an incident so dramatic, even movie-like, that many initially assumed it was a staged bit - it seemed wildly out of character for one of Hollywood's most relentlessly upbeat stars.

Some questioned whether Smith should have been allowed to continue to sit front and centre after smacking Rock.

Several stars rushed to counsel and calm Smith, including Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper and Tyler Perry. But the timing was also awkward because the best actor category was due up soon after, and Smith had long been considered a lock-in for the award.

"I know we're all still processing, but the way casual violence was normalised tonight by a collective national audience will have consequences that we can't even fathom in the moment," wrote Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, on Twitter.

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