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EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Adam Rifkin is set to direct his next feature, the stoner comedy, Toad, which he co-wrote with Bank of Dave scribe Piers Ashworth. Cameras will roll this autumn in New Mexico.

Tom Cruise caused chaos last night (July 8) while attending friend Glen Powell’s Twisters premiere in London.Cruise and Powell starred together in Top Gun Maverick back in 2022 and Cruise made an appearance at Powell’s premiere of Twisters in support of his friend.Cruise was pictured with Powell, popcorn in hand for the premiere, which also stars Normal People actor Daisy Edgar-Jones.The film is a sequel to the original 1996 film Twister, which starred Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour-Hoffman and Bill Paxton.Fans were delighted when Cruise appeared at the premiere. “Fun night with friends, watching a movie!” Cruise later wrote on social media, sharing a picture of him and Powell together.The official Top Gun social media account commented on the post writing, “Our Maverick and Hangman”, referring to their respective characters in Top Gun: Maverick. At the film’s end, Cruise chatted to fans on the way out.

Angelique Jackson The late Bill Paxton was a new dad when he set out for Oklahoma to chase tornadoes for the natural disaster thriller “Twister” in 1995. His son, James, was just over a year old and Bill’s wife Louise brought the baby out for a visit.

Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Wednesday ahead of the sequel’s release.“And so a week or two before, I remember sitting in Oklahoma with ice on my knee and calling my agent and going, ‘Am I going to be able to pull this off?’ ” Hunt recalled. “So, for me, it was just like ‘Run anyway’ because I had no other choice.”Ultimately, Hunt played the lead role in “Twister,” which became the second-highest grossing film of 1996.The movie follows a group of amateur storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.Hunt — who starred alongside Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck and Philip Seymour Hoffman — said that “Twister” was “a very physical movie.”“Looking back, it’s all for the best that there wasn’t the technology to do it all on your laptop.

Selena Kuznikov “Twisters” executive producer Steven Spielberg didn’t want Anthony Ramos to use a Southern accent for his role, according to the actor. Ramos, who plays storm chaser Javi in “Twisters,” said in an Entertainment Weekly interview that he originally thought his character should have a Southern accent. “Then I heard Steven [Spielberg] was like, ‘No, I want him to do it in his dialect,'” Ramos recalled.

Twisters might be all tornadoes wrecking the Earth, but at the heart of it is a good banter romance, and that’s what Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell have got going on in the latest trailer shown Wednesday at CinemaCon.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Glenn Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones have somehow found a way to make relentless natural destruction sexy. The leads of “Twisters,” along with costar Anthony Ramos, showed at the annual movie theater owners convention CinemaCon to show case a first look at the sequel to 1996 adventure film “Twister,” starring Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton.

Twisters,” a follow-up to the 1996 box office hit “Twister.” The disaster film aired its first trailer during the Super Bowl. Starring Glen Powell, who plays a self-described “tornado wrangler,” and Daisy Edgar-Jones as a scientist, the film is set for a July 19 release. Billed as a “new chapter” of the original, the film is directed by Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung, known for his film “Minari,” which shared an agricultural setting and little else with “Twisters.” Along with Powell and Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack and Maura Tierney round out the cast.

A first trailer for Universal‘s anticipated Twisters update has dropped during the Super Bowl. You can check it out above.

Glen Powell has revealed in an interview with Vogue that a new Twister film is coming. It’s not a sequel and not a reboot of the 1996 film starring Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton.

Glen Powell is opening up about his upcoming movie Twisters!

Tom Hanks has revealed what he believes to be the most “stupid” moment of his career.While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, the Oscar-winning actor reflected on his 30-year career before focusing specifically on his experience filming Ron Howard’s space drama Apollo 13.Released in 1995, Apollo 13 tells the true story of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, astronauts who find themselves in life-threatening danger when their journey to the moon goes wrong.It was while filming the movie’s most quoted line – when Hank’s Lovell says: “Houston, we have a problem” – that the actor found himself in an embarrassing situation.Hanks told Norton: “Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton and I were recreating the serious moment right after ‘Houston we have a problem,’ and we’re going up and down on grips making us look weightless.”The Forrest Gump actor said he wouldn’t usually have been embarrassed by this, but that day, the cast and crew happened to receive a visit from Lovell himself.Hanks continued: “We looked ridiculous and when I looked down there was Jim looking up at us,” adding: “I have never felt more stupid in my life.”Apollo 13 was nominated for nine Oscars, winning two in the Editing and Sound categories.Hanks appeared on The Graham Norton Show to promote an exhibition called The Moonwalkers, which he narrates and co-wrote with director Christopher Riley.The installation tells the stories of the Apollo space missions, with the technology in the rooms designed to make audiences feel as if they’re sat alongside the astronauts.Earlier this year, Hanks admitted that he “hates” some of the movies he’s starred in, although he didn’t specify which ones.Speaking with The New Yorker, the actor explained: “Ok, let’s admit this: We all

Bill Paxton feared the Titanic submersible dives. In the wake of the Titanic tourist submersible tragedy, ET is looking back at its interview with the late actor back in 2003, when he admitted that he was nervous about going deep down in the ocean to see the wreckage of the famed ship.The actor, who starred in as Brock Lovett, spoke to ET ahead of the premiere of, the documentary in which director James Cameron discussed his inspiration for the film and took several people, including Paxton, on an unscripted tour of the famous wreckage.«Each dive, I had to kind of look myself in the mirror and go 'OK, are you ready for this?'» Paxton, who died in 2017, told ET at the time.

"Sleepless In Seattle" is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its release. In the movie, newly widowed Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son, who, in an attempt to get his father back into the dating game, calls into a talk-radio show.

tourist submersible on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage, a story of one of filmmaker James Cameron’s most harrowing dives to study the Titanic — and what he would find out after — has come to the surface.The Academy Award-winning movie director behind “Titanic” was inside a submersible vessel nearly 13,000 feet underwater on the fateful date of September 11, 2001.After the 68-year-old director and his crew finished their exploration of the 1912 tragedy that killed about 1,500 people and returned to the main ship, Cameron was told of the nightmare that happened on U.S. land just 12 hours earlier.“What is this thing that’s going on?” Cameron asked actor Bill Paxton, who played treasure hunter Brock Lovett in the film.“The worst terrorist attack in history, Jim,” Paxton told him.Paxton recounted for Cameron the nightmare that took place: planes crashed into the World Trade Centers’ Twin Towers in Manhattan, N.Y.

— the hotly anticipated sequel to the 1996 hit — is in full swing and star Anthony Ramos is having an amazing time riding the storm.The 31-year-old stage and screen star walked the red carpet at the premiere of his new action blockbuster,, at Kings Theatre in New York City on Monday, and he spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi about his other pulse-pounding adventure project, currently in production.«We started, we're shooting in Oklahoma right now, so it's been good,» he said, beaming. «I'm having a lot of fun!»News broke back in October that Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment had begun development on , a sequel to the 1996 blockbuster , which starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton as meteorologists in pursuit of an F5 tornado.Ramos is starring in the project alongside Kiernan Shipka, Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Maura Tierney and Sasha Lane, and he had nothing but love for his cast and crew.«Lee Isaac Chung is an amazing director, Daisy Edgar Jones, one of the best actors I've ever worked with in my entire life.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal and Amblin Entertainment have rounded out their Twisters cast with the addition of Maura Tierney (The Affair), Harry Hadden-Paton (Downton Abbey), Sasha Lane (American Honey), Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men), Nik Dodani (Atypical), David Corenswet (Pearl), Tunde Adebimpe (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and Katy O’Brian (The Mandalorian).

Naman Ramachandran Daryl McCormack is set to feature alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in Universal and Amblin Entertainment’s “Twisters,” a sequel to 1996’s “Twister,” Variety has learned. McCormack will play a supporting role to Daisy Edgar Jones’ character, Variety understands. “Minari” helmer Lee Isaac Chung is directing the film from a script by “The Revenant” writer Mark L. Smith. “Twisters” is set to release on July 19, 2024. McCormack starred with Emma Thompson in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” for which he was nominated for leading actor at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards. He was also nominated for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award. The actor’s credits also include hit series “Bad Sisters,” for which he was nominated in the best actor in a supporting role – drama category at the Irish Film and Television Awards.

Angelique Jackson “Nope” standout Brandon Perea is going from surveying one (alien) storm system to chasing another — with the actor signing on to star in the upcoming “Twister” sequel. Perea joins Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos in “Twisters,” directed by “Minari” helmer Lee Isaac Chung from a script by “The Revenant” writer Mark L. Smith. The film, from Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment, is described as a “new chapter” of the 1996 movie, which followed a team of storm chasers as they hunted down the most powerful tornado in decades. Plot details, including Perea’s role, are being kept under wraps.

Saddle up! Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas has become the No. 1 destination for those hoping to channel their inner cowboys (or cowgirls!). The historic district — the only city in the world that hosts a cattle drive featuring Texas Longhorns twice a day — is the official go-to for Hollywood when searching for an authentic backdrop for Westerns.

On this week’s episode* Rob Lowe tells some seriously juicy stories—of growing up in Malibu, losing his girlfriend to Warren Beatty, and why he was deeply unpopular with the mothers at his son’s school. And that’s just the start…