Twisters, Glen Powell’s sequel toTwister, has broken a very important record. After premiering on Peacock 14 days ago, the film has become the streamer’s most-watched film. Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award-winning biographical dramaOppenheimerpreviously held the record, but Powell’s tornado thriller is one of the biggest films of the year and has outperformed the historical biopic on this side of the streaming universe. Premiering in July of this year, the summer movie made over $371 million at the box office from a $155 million production budget. The critical response has been good as well, with critics giving it a 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
PerDeadline,Twistersjoins other successful titles in Peacock’s Pay 1 film catalog, such asDespicable Me 4andThe Fall Guy: The Extended Cut.Twistersis set to remain until March 2025. The Deadline piece reports thatFive Nights at Freddy’sholds the record for a Peacock premiere, but given that the film was a day-and-date release (released simultaneously in theaters and the streaming platform), it doesn’t enter the same ranking asTwisters. Pay 1 refers to the window of time when a theatrical release becomes exclusively available on a streamer.Twisterswill spend its first four months on Peacock, then 10 months on Prime Video, then four months on Peacock again.
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Twistersfollows Powell’s Tyler Owens, a storm influencer who teams up with Kate Carter during tornado season in Oklahoma to try and understand an outbreak of the natural phenomenon, and perhaps do some analysis of their own. The film was directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a script by Mark L. Smith, and it stars Powell alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, Brandon Perea, Anthony Ramos, and Maura Tierney.
While it shares a similar typography and title, and it was sold as a sequel, the film doesn’t fully connect with Jan de Bont’s 1996 natural disaster thriller. Yes, one Dorothy device is seen inTwisters(the container of hundreds of flying detectors inTwister)., but that’s about everything connecting the two films.
‘Twisters’ Is Another Winner for Universal Pictures
Although Warner Bros. distributed the film overseas, Universal Pictures was the sole distributor in North America, a territorywhereTwistersamassed $267.8 million.Oppenheimerwas also a Universal Pictures release, so this means that once again the distributor is cashing in on another record.
For Universal, the other big winners of the year wereDespicable Me 4andKung Fu Panda 4, two animated franchise entries that had to compete with Disney and Warner Bros., two studios that won big bucks with franchise entries this year. This means that, in order to compete in the market, big studios are forced to make everything but original films. It’s not good news for filmmakers with original stories to tell, because they will have to figure out a way to incorporate their personal style in what are basically franchise templates.
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2025 doesn’t look like it will represent a change.Superman,Jurassic World: Rebirth,Lilo & Stitch, andCaptain America: Brave New Worldareall based on previous IPsthat have worked in the past, and which will surely bring in millions. They will also be some of the most successful films of the year, proving that original films are not set to appear in the box office rankings of the year. You can streamTwistersthrough the link below:
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A follow-up to the 1996 original film Twister, Twisters is a sequel set years after the original, said to be fast-tracked by Steven Spielberg and Mark L. Smith, with Frank Marshal as producer. Little details exist about the film, but Helen Hunt is expected to reprise her role as Jo, with the film likely to pay homage to the late Bill Paxton.
