Tag: Twister
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Holy Cow, a ‘Twister’ Reboot Is In the Works with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director
Universal has decided to reboot the classic 1990s disaster movie Twister, although it remains to be seen whether the studio is in it for the money and not the science. Variety reports that Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski will take on the new tornado film. My colleague Tom Reimann described it in much more…
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‘Twister’ Honest Trailer: Welcome to the Exciting World of Wind Science
As if there wasn’t enough to worry about right now, don’t forget that it’s tornado season. And since there aren’t any new blockbusters hitting theaters, there’s no better time to take a look at Twister, one of the biggest hits of 1996. Tornadoes are destructive cyclones that can tear apart entire buildings, but before they…
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How ‘Twister’ Beat ‘Mission: Impossible’ at the 1996 Box Office and Transformed Movie Marketing
Jan de Bont’s 1996 “Twister” (Warner Bros.) is more than a cinematic guilty pleasure. Produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, the tornado-chase thriller shattered box office records at the time. The marketing triumph not only influenced the way future trailers were crafted, but much like Marvel’s “Spider-Man” in 2002, “Twister” showed Hollywood that you could jumpstart…
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Bill Paxton’s Family Files Wrongful-Death Suit Over “Concealed” Risk Of Heart Surgery
The family of Bill Paxton says the Titanic actor’s death a year ago following heart surgery was unnecessary and preventable, and has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the surgeon who operated on him. Paxton, one of Hollywood’s most popular actors with such credits as Twister and Big Love, was 61…