It definitely had some similar beats. Like the rodeo/motel scene was like the drive in scene from the first. They had the fish out of water character (Bill Paxton's fiance vs Ben the reporter) but yeah for the most part it did its own thing which was nice.
@griswoldclark6835 There were at least three major scenes (like the visit to a relative's house before the final act) that were call backs and two or three minor one's (like the Dorothy one)
gotta love YT comments C1 - movie had almost nothing to do with OG! C2 - well it had a couple scenes C3 - it had a bit more than that C4 - the whole thing was just a fucking rip off 😂
I work at a movie theater in rural Missouri, Twisters went BEZERK! We could not breath without another person coming in to see it. We sold more tickets for it than any other movie this year so far.
Same here I work at a movie theater in Tennessee. I watched Twisters and enjoyed it. I'm HUGE movie lover/fanatic and aspiring actress. I've already watched 23 new releases in the movie theater this year. Twisters is in my top five favorite movies of the year thus far. ❤❤❤❤❤🎬🎥🎟️🎞️🍿🥤
It was reported that the highest grossing theater for Twisters was the Regal Warren in Moore, OK. Interestingly enough, that same theater was damaged 11 years ago by the last official EF5 tornado on record. (The theater mostly survived because a shift in the tornado's track kept it from a direct hit and put it just on the edge of the damage path.)
Box office has been on fire recently! My local IMAX theater here in Tulsa, Oklahoma didn't have a single empty seat, even in the front row on Saturday night, and nothing made my heart happier.
I work in movie theater in Wisconsin and every show of Twisters is sold out. 4DX is very popular and it is so refreshing see people come out with huge smile on their face
I live in north east Texas, only a couple hours south of Oklahoma, and Twisters was VERY popular here. I went at noon on Friday and it was a decently full IMAX theater. I'd imagine most people here in the south and midwest are going to love it, and maybe even go back for repeat viewings
I hope that we get a very "legs" heavy Charts where Dan goes in depth about what legs are (in regards to box office), the movies with the best legs (in regards to box office) and the top performing movies about legs (in regards to legs).
Ladies and gentlemen if Twisters makes just a little above $500M worldwide then we have a new $1B franchise on our hands and it’s a for movies about tornadoes. Who would have thought that could happen back in 1996 with the original and here now with a new 2024 film? I love it!👏
Unfortunately it won´t happen because the international market will not be there. For the most part, the international markets combined equals or surpasses the US box office of a movie. But sometimes, a blockbuster is really popular in the US but not in the rest of the world as it happened last year with "The little mermaid" and "Ninja Turtles". This year it will be "Twisters". And with a 200 mill budget, unfortunately it will not be considered an all-round success
@@ComoGotasdeAguaCine I feel like you say that a little too convincingly. This movie may not even need the international market as much as the original was equal on both. I have a feeling you might see the domestic take the weight more this time around. For example it could make 300-350 domestically but only 100M internationally. It’s all relative in my mind.
Chung should reunite with Powell and Jones for a Mummy reboot in the vein of Brenden Frasier with some old school horror and adventure vibes. It would hit.
Glad to see many comments on full theaters for Twister. My theater was pretty empty (but I was at the earliest showing for my theater, so that could be part of it). It was overall a pretty entertaining film.
Twisters played really well with the crowd I saw it with. People seemed really happy with it. Might have some good word of mouth to carry it on longer. It got my nostalgia dollars. My siblings and I watched it in theaters as kids. We all went to see this one together again.
Great show as usual. I really liked your point about "middle America" driving the box office for Twisters and will eagerly await your tracking video. Wanted to clarify about the 365 day chart: Godzilla x Kong says $632m. I assume that's just a typo from moving Wonka up to 3, since I'm seeing figures elsewhere that look closer to $570m?
Wow, that was an impressive opening. Happy for Glen Powell. I've been a fan ever since "Everybody Wants Some!!". Interested to see how it holds. Can't wait for next weeks episode to see how D&W does.
Dan, a lot of movie theater chains have started doing "Mystery movies" where you don't know what you're watching until the movie actually starts; for example, AMC showed Sing Sing this week. How does this affect box office earnings when Sing Sing was "officially" only in 4 theaters this weekend, but had a one-day showing as a mystery movie?
I bought IMAX tickets three hours ahead of time for a 6pm showing on friday, there were maybe 10 people in the theater. When we sat down, it was at capacity. Some movies are just inherently targeted towards demographics that don’t pay for their tickets ahead of time.
Honorable mention for highest grossing disaster movies to Armageddon, which was the more successful asteroid-disaster movie of 1998. It only has a smaller opening wknd than Deep Impact bc Armageddon had a 5-day opening.
I saw both LONGLEGS and TWISTERS this weekend, and both are well worth the ticket price. I'm not a big horror guy, but LONGLEGS was just a beautiful film, and TWISTERS was exactly what you expected from it, and that's not at all a bad thing.
Loving the show as usual, but I do have a question. Are you no longer tracking which movies closed? I quite liked seeing the varying longevity of different releases. If it's something you've rotated out of the show then I'm fine with that but I would like to see it return. Keep up the great work!
Seeing Twisters tomorrow (thanks Marcus for keeping $6 tickets and free small popcorn!), looking forward to it. Never would have expected that Back to School would have outgrossed Aliens! And also thanks for breaking out the scientific term for twins from two different fathers…we’ll have to find out which is the Deep Impact/Antz and which is the Armageddon/A Bug’s Life!
Yes to Oddity! I hadn't heard anything about it before watching, and it was awesome! Very tight and immersive horror plot with tension. I think that where Longlegs over-explained a bit too much at the end, Oddity was able to pay off all its setups in an extremely satisfying way without shedding the wonder/mystery built up over its runtime.
32:17 "'Desperate Lies' and the Indian film 'Bad News' are like the 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon' of heteropaternal superfecundation." You had a lot of fun writing that line, didn't you? Lmao
I haven't been to the theater much since Covid: Barbenheimer, Dune, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, and now...Twisters. I *loved* it, bombastic fun with some hometown flair (Midwest born, South now) is exactly what I needed given all the crap going on in the world.
I had a very strong feeling that Twisters was gonna be bigger than people expected when that first big trailer dropped, and it deserves it! Very interested in seeing that video you mentioned working on about tracking.
Really enjoy how you have that middle America man thing going on. I've lived in Texas, Michigan, and also worked in Oklahoma. There is real room for movies to explore the different states of America. Also in OK tornadoes are real dangers. Hoping to see it soon. Keep it up man, love the show
Absolutely insane that Twisters was released only a week before Deadpool! It's been out for a few weeks here in Australia so a little more room to breathe in my local market
Not to add more work for you Dan, but since Deadpool and Wolverine is an MCU film, maybe also do a chart of how it stacks up in the MCU? Thanks for all you do!
Glen Powell proving he is a movie star is great. Even for his smaller role in Top Gun Maverick a few years ago, he’s proven to have the charisma to be an A list star. He’s god the looks, but i think what helps him is he just seems to be having fun making movies, and his passion shows.
To speak on the mammoth release of Deadpool and Wolverine- it is literally the only film I can buy a ticket for Friday and beyond at my 14-screen Regal.
This weekend I went to see 3 films: Twisters, Crossing, and Oddity. I'm not surprised to see that Twisters overperformed; my matinee premium ticket showing was almost fully sold, and they had showtimes every 40 minutes! The movie was some good dumb fun and fortunately loud enough to mostly drown out the guy two seats over who didn't know how to shut up. Crossing was one I don't expect many people will get a chance to see, but it was a solid emotional drama. It reminded me of All About My Mother, if you've seen that. Worth checking out if you have a chance and are interested in foreign film/transgender stories. Oddity was the standout of the weekend. I don't think I've ever screamed in a theater before, at least not that loud. It doesn't do anything too radical with the horror formula, but it's all executed to perfection. Extremely eerie and atmospheric, really well paced to build up maximum tension and pay off the setup with a satisfying scare.
For the fellow cinephiles in Dan's audience: There's an actor in 'Twisters' named Daryl McCormack. When I watched 'Twisters', I was wondering where I've seen that dude before. Turns out it was this small movie on Hulu called 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande'. It's a pandemic-era movie that, in my opinion, takes smart advantage of the fact that people couldn't congregate in crowds, making a very intimate, script-driven, and dialogue-driven movie. Also, Emma Thompson is in it looking quite beautiful (I thought). If you have 90 mins to burn, check it out. 🙂
Could Twisters have underperformed internationally because of Warner Bros? Cause I know Universal handled only the domestic distribution and WB did elsewhere. 16:56
Honestly from a Brit's perspective... I think it has more to do with the fact we don't relate, and the last one was super cheesy, so people probably expect it to have the Independence Day/Jurrasic Park revival mojo rather than Maverick Mojo.
also, whatever the second-week drop-off for twisters ends up being, I guarantee it would've been half as much had they actually shown the leads do **THAT** in the final scene, no matter what Steven Spielberg thought of it 😂
I was at my local theater to see Robot Dreams, FINALLY, last Wednesday, it was a zoo. Most of the traffic was for the advanced screening of Twisters. I honestly expected it to be a bigger film this weekend if it drew those kinds of crowds on a Wednesday advance screening. I was also surprised by the crowd that Oddity drew last night. It was in one of the smaller theaters but it was quite full. I heard there was something of a word of mouth going around social media.
People forget Illinois and Missouri have almost 20 million large population and that drives big for movies like Twisters. I live in the STL area and the original is a huge movie around here because tornadoes are big around here I'm not surprised at all
Question about Sing Sing. AMC and Regal have been doing a Monday mystery movie event for over a year now. They show an unreleased movie a few weeks before the actual release for $5, and this past week Sing Sing was the movie screened. How does that interact with the charts, if at all? Sing Sing is listed with 4 theaters, but Regal's mystery movie event is nationwide. Very curious how these screening impact the box office.
25:17 why french canadian movie are never mentionned in the limited released "Nos Belles-Soeurs" made 480 083$ canadian last week (about 350k US) and 260 085$ this week (around 190k US). The number of screen is around 100.
So I know Dan will cover this is the actuals next week, but I like how the top 5 doesn’t have a single drop above 47% and all made higher than estimated (though marginal). Yay movies!
I'm very pleasantly surprised by Long Legs. I fully expected a slightly off kilter, weird movie like it to drop like a rock, but it's nice to see people are giving a movie that's a bit unconventional a chance. 48% drop for a horror film is honestly super impressive. Also, I think you make a great point re "tracking" and how "coastal" it tends to be. The US is a huge country with a huge population, and naturally, movies don't appeal to all corners and regions of the US the same way.
43:54 not only do you need the X-Men and R-Rated charts, you’re also going to need to bring out the 33 film behemoth that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe chart.
I remember when Aliens came out. Lots of speculations about why it wasn't doing better at the box office. Some articles mentioned movie goers were confused because they thought it was just a re-release rather than a new movie cause of the title and lack of marketing. Others claiming the R-rating kept out its target audience, which was young teens. Though, it did help propel James Cameron as a must see director amongst moviegoers and helped him get the greenlight for T2, which became a cultural phenomenon.
Twisters is a proper spiritual successor. It would have been weird if they pretended the older one did t exists, but they also didn’t make a true sequel completely tied to the previous characters and plot. It’s just a good movie and that’s enough.
Ah, looks like my assumption was proven wrong. That is the fun part about speculating. Though "Twisters" better enjoy this week unopposed, because "Deadpool and Wolverine" is right around the corner....
It's intersting to me that Glen Powell has been anointed as a major new movie star, despite the fact that he's yet to topline a theatrical hit. Meanwhile Daisy Edgar-Jones has now toplined two significant theatrical hits, but isn't being spoken of as being a major movie star in the same way. Which is curious.
