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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Spinning Ahead of Forecasts With $32.2 Million Opening Day
'Twisters,' starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones, is outperforming its projections after an impressive opening day.
That puts it in competition with fellow Universal release “Despicable Me 4” ($75 million) for the fourth-biggest three-day debut of the year (though that animated sequel opened on a Wednesday and had grosses dispersed across a five-day holiday weekend frame). The original “Twister,” starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, was a special effects landmark and box office smash in its time, becoming the second-highest grossing feature of 1996 and enduring as a cable movie favorite. This legacy sequel, directed by “Minari” Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung and featuring a slew of new characters played by Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos, hopes to replicate its predecessor’s commercial appeal — and justify its own hefty $155 million production budget.
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