‘Twisters’ Explodes To $10M+ In Previews – Box Office Friday AM Update

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1. This beast of a storm is at $10.7M in preview cast for both Wednesday and Thursday. In terms of total preview cash, that’s more than what Legendary/Warner Bros. Godzilla x King: New Empire did ($10M), though that was made all in one night. Still, a very good tee-off here for Amblin/Universal/Warner Bros’ Twisters. The movie before P&A cost $155M.

   Last night Twisters made $8M off showtimes started at 5PM.

   Another comp here is last summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts which did $8.8M on its Wednesday and Thursday, and went on to do a $25.6M Friday, $61M opening.

   Among regular pics in release, here’s how they shaped up for Thursday and the week:

   1.) Despicable Me 4 (Uni) 4,449 theaters, Thu $5M (-12%), Wk $69.1M, Total $235.6M/Wk 2

   2.) Longlegs (NEO) 2,510 theaters, Thu $2.2M (-7%), Wk $32.9M/Wk 1

   3.) Inside Out 2 (Dis) 3,815 theaters, Thu $2.4M (-11%), Wk $31.7M/Total $583.5M/Wk 5

   4.) A Quiet Place: Day One (Par) 3,378 theaters, Thu $1.1M (-14%), Wk $17M, Total $121.5M/Wk 3

   5.) Fly Me to the Moon (App/Sony) 3,356 theaters, Thu $595K (-25%), Wk $13M/Wk 1

2. You guys it’s so bad. But like, good bad. The writing is so cliche at times it feels as though the actors have a hard time getting the lines out. The audience I saw it with laughed HARD at lines that weren’t intended to be funny and you could hear a pin drop after obvious jokes. I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard in a theater.

   The vfx are great and my hat goes off to Ben Wallfisch who scored this flaming garbage and turned in a score of a quality far exceeding what this deserved. Also my condolences to the whole post production team who have collectively had to watch it thousands of times. They deserve medals.

3. Looks like a Sharknado movie

4. The huge storm in Illinois and the Midwest this past week admittedly does have me curious to check this out. However, it does look bad.