Action Film Twisters is All Set to Crowd Theaters This Summer
The new re-working of the themes from 1996’s box-office hit, Twister, is called Twisters and is poised to give adult-themed action pictures (and the box-office) a much needed lift.
If you needed to know that Glen Powell (Hit Man) is one of the most successful actors working in Hollywood today, that point should become a resounding fact when his latest, Twisters, opens July 19th. While box-office predictions suggest the film will definitely do at least $50 million during its opening weekend, those numbers seem a bit conservative. Most insiders would likely suggest an opening weekend north of $90 million given Glen Powell’s presence as the star of the picture and his tremendous previous successes such as Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone but You and Hit Man.
Though Powell doesn’t like to think Twisters is a reboot, it is one. It’s bringing back to life the memory of a successful action picture from over 28 years ago. Not only that but Twisters looks likely to not only be as good as the first picture but, due to a big budget and modern-day effects, become one of the biggest box-office hits of the year. Powell’s co-star, Daisy Edgar-Jones previously played in 2022’s Where the Crawdads Sing which earned $90 million domestically. Twisters should easily make that all in one weekend, especially with the one-two casting punch of Powell and Edgar-Jones backing up the movie’s tornado-centered visual effects.
Powell has recently emerged as a dark horse contender for a Best Actor Oscar nod and a shoo-in for a Golden Globe nomination for his turn in the Netflix hit dark comedy, Hit Man. He could not be more of an “it” actor at this time and his presence in this upcoming action film is certainly going to make it a major event film as well as the date movie of choice for couples who like summer blockbusters. That’s because Powell got the traditional date movie crowd on his side last Christmas with his box-office juggernaut, Anyone but You.
Even if one hardly remembers the 1996 film, Twister, the new upcoming picture is easily an event movie based on the perfect casting and the probable quality of the special effects alone. Helen Hunt wasn’t the biggest name when she did the 1996 movie and that picture catapulted her to stardom and did a hefty sum at the box-office. Twisters could just wind up with somewhere around north of $800 million worldwide when all is said and done if it’s anywhere as good as the trailers suggest it will be. Spinning crowds into theaters could not be easier than casting Glen Powell in a picture with visual effects that seem Oscar-nomination bound. July 19th, we’ll see what the financial numbers have in store for Twisters.
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