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‘Twisters’ Box Office: How 4DX Screenings and Midwestern Moviegoers Propelled the Sequel to Blockbuster Status
"Twisters" wildly outperformed box office expectations.
The original adventure, starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman, was hugely successful with $496 million globally (which is nearly $1 billion, adjusted for inflation) and remains a touchstone for audiences. The sequel, directed by “Minari” filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, instead introduced an entirely new band of storm chasers, portrayed by Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos, who fight for their lives asmultiple tornadoes converge over central Oklahoma. After a terrible start to summer, the disaster movie is the latest June and July offering to beat expectations and get people to theaters after Disney’s Pixar sequel “Inside Out 2,” Universal and Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4,” Paramount’s nearly silent prequel “A Quiet Place: Day One” and Neon’s horror sleeper hit “Longlegs.” Those films helped to shrink the year-to-date deficit from 21% to 17%, according to Comscore.
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