Twisters
Glen Powell and ‘Twisters’ Co-Stars Make Surprise Visit at Luke Combs Concert to Chug Beers Onstage
Twisters stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos got to wet their whistles during a surprise appearance at a Luke Combs concert over the weekend. The performers joined the country singer onstage at his show Friday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. As seen in footage shared to social media, Combs and the castmembers […]
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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Whipping Up Huge Storm With Record $74.6M Domestic Opening
Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is whipping up huge winds at the box office, with forecasters predicting a far better-than-expected domestic opening of $74.6 million. If projections hold, it will become the top opening domestically for a natural disaster film, not adjusted for inflation. (The current crown holder is Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow, which […]
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‘Twisters’ Director Missed Flying Cow in His Own Movie After VFX Team Snuck It In
[This story contains spoilers for Twisters.] Missed the flying cow in Twisters? You’re in good company. Director Lee Isaac Chung said he initially didn’t spot the homage to the original franchise installment himself. “My god, everybody’s been wanting a cow in this movie,” says Chung, who recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter. He was […]
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‘Twisters’ Headed Toward $72M Opening After Whipping Up $10.7M in Previews
A storm has arrived at the box office, with Twisters bringing in $10.7 million in Thursday night previews as it heads to a domestic debut as high as $72 million. That’s far above expectations. Going into the weekend, tracking services projected Twisters could score anywhere from $40 million to $50 million domestically (with some distributors […]
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‘Twisters’ Star Brandon Perea on the Daunting Task of Following Philip Seymour Hoffman and Why ‘The OA’ Isn’t Over to Him Yet
Two years ago, Brandon Perea delivered a breakout big-screen performance in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and now he’s back in Universal’s latest July event film, Twisters. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Perea plays Boone, who’s nearly unrecognizable from his Nope character, Angel Torres. He is the right hand to Glen Powell’s Tyler Owens, as their team […]
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TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe on Stealing Scenes in ‘Twisters’ — and Getting Back to the Recording Booth
With Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and the awesome might of Mother Nature out in front of the marketing for Twisters, many may not know about the additional treats swirling in Lee Isaac Chung’s legacy sequel to the original 1996 hit. Among Powell’s group of YouTube-streaming weather junkies are Brandon Perera, Katy O’Brien, Sasha Lane and, most […]
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Glen Powell Reveals the Bill Paxton Acting Trick He Used in ‘Twisters’
Glen Powell is sharing how he’s kept Bill Paxton’s memory alive throughout his career thus far. While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Twisters star reflected on working with the late actor on a film years ago. “I shot this movie called Red Wing years and years ago and Bill and I […]
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Glen Powell Says His Parents Have Made Cameos in All His Movies — Including ‘Twisters’
Glen Powell’s parents have appeared in all the star’s movies, the actor revealed this week, in a tradition that dates back to Spy Kids 3. The Top Gun: Maverick star shared the tidbit while previewing his new movie, Twisters, during an appearance on The Today Show. “There’s a great sequence midway through a rodeo sequence […]
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‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Talks Steven Spielberg’s Big Assist and How ‘Star Wars’ Helped Him Land the Job
In early 2019, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung had come to terms with the fact his filmmaking career might be over. He’d already recognized the writing on the wall a year earlier and decided to pen a semi-autobiographical script known as Minari, but everything would soon change in February 2019. That’s when Plan B agreed […]
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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Hopes to Whip Up Category 5 Storm in U.S. Debut
Universal Pictures hopes to whip up a Category 5 story at the box office this weekend as Twisters hits the big screen nearly three decades after the original Twister blew away audiences with nearly $500 million in global ticket sales, not adjusted for inflation. The studio has never tried to bill Twisters as a direct […]
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Lee Isaac Chung Says ‘Twisters’ Is a Road Movie… With Tornadoes
Lee Isaac Chung is barely settled in a café chair parked on this South Pasadena sidewalk when he begins our conversation with the question he’s most expecting: “So how did I go from Minari to this?” He laughs about it now, but this late June meeting is on the eve of a global Twisters media […]
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‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t “Preach a Message”
"I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we’re preaching a message, because that’s not what I think cinema should be about."
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