( January 5, 2026, 10:50 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Makers of the 2022 sequel film “Top Gun: Maverick” did not breach a 1983 agreement by not crediting the sequel to the author of an article on which the original 1986 film was based, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel agreed with a California federal judge in a Jan. 2 opinion....