‘Twisters’ Breaking Out With Around $7M In Previews – Box Office Early Look

EXCLUSIVE: Twisters, the reboot of the 1996 Michael Crichton co-scripted Amblin feature, is off to a good start with around $7M in preview money from both last night’s fan Imax/PLF showtimes and previews which began today at 5PM for the Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar Jones movie.

Reviews and audience response is great respectively at 78% certified fresh and 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s better than the original movie which received drab scores at 67% critics, and 58% audience. Forecasts were at a $50M+ opening, but with this movie doing business in the heartland, it would not be shocking to see it raise to $60M.

That Wednesday and Thursday preview number if it sticks by tomorrow AM would be ahead of the $6.6M Wednesday/Thursday preview sales posted by 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes earlier this summer which debuted to a $22.1M Friday and 3-day of $58.4M. The difference here in case of any overperformance? Apes didn’t have heartthrob Powell.

RelishMix measured a social media universe for Twisters of 341M across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined which is 3% above action-adventure pic comps. Social media champs are stars Anthony Ramos at 2.5M, Edgar-Jones at 1.9M and Powell with 1.8M followers.

Warners has overseas on the sequel (the studio first handled domestic on the 1996 title, while Uni took foreign). Through Monday, the Lee Isaac Chung directed title counted close to $13M from 38 markets. Another 38 are opening this week including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and China. The overseas cume is expected to jump to $45M+.