Universal Twisters

Box Office Trends - 7/22

(The Industry was off today, but we put together our weekly Box Office Trends. Paid subscribers can enjoy the full article. The daily editions will resume tomorrow.)

Universal’s Twisters ruled the box office, as it took the number one spot and massively over-performed with $80.5 M domestically and $123.2 M worldwide. It became the highest-grossing domestic disaster film opening of all time. It is already on track to make back its $155 M budget with the top-performing theater in suburban Oklahoma City, e.g., tornado country.

Here’s how it faired against other top performers' opening weekends:

$68 M - The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

• $186.7 M domestic total

• $552.6 M Worldwide

$54.5 M - San Andreas (2015)

• $155 M domestic total

• $474 M worldwide

$20 M - Deepwater Horizon (2016)

• $61 M domestic total

• $121 M worldwide

The original Twister (1996) was the #2 biggest-grossing film (behind Independence Day). Here’s how it opened.

$41 M Twister (1996)

• $241 M domestic total

Here’s the trailer for the original. And the 2024 sequel trailer.

Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10: