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SUNDAY UPDATE: Deadpool & Wolverine continues to govern the global box office, now with an estimated $824.1M through Sunday. The breakdown here is $395.6M domestic and $428.5M at the international box office. On a worldwide basis, D&W has already topped the cumes of Deadpool ($783M) and Deadpool 2…

Much like the original Twister (1996) film’s adrenaline-fueled rock soundtrack, Twisters boasts a stacked soundtrack full of country heavy hitters like Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Tanner Adell, Lainey Wilson and many more. Other songs were contributed by Benson Boone, Chris Stapleton…

UPDATED MONDAY AM: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin’s Twisters is higher this morning after a $21.57M Sunday, which puts the Lee Isaac Chung-directed, Mark L. Smith-penned tentpole at an opening of $81.2M. That’s close to double what the first movie opened to back in 1996, at $41M. The question now is…

THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FROM TWISTERS. Although Twisters is striking up all kinds of nostalgia for fans of the original, the sequel attempts to do away with the romantic comedy conventions of the ’90s. Director Lee Isaac Chung explained why, although it was filmed, he didn’t end up…

UPDATE: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin's Twisters positively blasted past forecasts domestically this session. While the international box office result is pretty close to where we saw it coming in, there's no denying this is much more of a domestic play.  The global cume, largely boosted by domestic's…

Hollywood whines there’s a lost moviegoing audience in the middle and southern part of the U.S. that the industry doesn’t make movies for. Well, then make movies for them. That’s exactly what Universal, Warner Bros., and Amblin did in rebooting Twisters to a grand stateside start of $80M, an awesome…

As Twisters rips through theaters and updates a nearly 30-year-old franchise, the original movie’s creator is reflecting on how the movie got made. Director Jan de Bont recalled the “goddamned real” effects that went into 1996’s Twister and “ultimately decided whether the movie was made” as the…

Glen Powell is paying tribute to Bill Paxton as Twisters get released in theaters. In a post on social media, Powell remembered the late Twister actor and tipped his hat to his Red Wing co-star. “As we release Twisters into the world today, I just wanted to look up and tip my hat to the legend…

Before Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos, there were Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, who starred in the original high-octane thriller Twister (1996) as storm chasers. Romantic tension similar, but also different, to that between the main characters in Twisters unfolded in the original…

Twisters, a new chapter in the Amblin-produced, Michael Crichton co-written franchise, will hit U.S. and Canada with a force of $50M from Friday-Sunday. That number will easily outstrip the start of the original 1996 movie which posted $41M. Already, Twisters counts $12.5M from 38 international box…

UPDATED: Animation domination continues at the global and international box office with Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 4 leading the pack this frame, and Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 still positively on fire after five sessions. At the same time, we're seeing encouraging numbers for all major…

Although the upcoming sequel to 1996’s Twister is missing some major names from the original, one cameo had a special significance to original leading man Bill Paxton. The late Golden Globe nominee’s son James Paxton said his experience on the set of the upcoming sequel Twisters, which premieres July…