How Will Into the Storm be Different from Twister?

This week at the multiplex, we've got heroes in a half shell (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” starring Megan Fox and Will Arnett), deadly twisters (“Into The Storm,” starring Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne Callies), dueling restaurateurs (“The

This story first appeared in the Aug. 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. While visual effects budgets on summer's biggest movies can push $100 million, New Line's upcoming tornado pic Into the Storm defied the 

On a purely technical level, Into the Storm delivers. The special effects work is basically flawless, and you absolutely get what you arguably came to see. You want big-screen images of insanely large-scale tornadoes and big-scale devastation and

“Come on, baby,” Pete (Matt Walsh) says, beckoning to the tornadoes headed his way in rural Oklahoma. But going “Into the Storm” means trying to survive the fury of an EF5 tornado with winds of 300 mph along with a freaky fire tornado, skinny rope

A year later, the Warren will be among hundreds of cinemas throughout Tornado Alley carrying Into the Storm, the first movie since 1996's Twister to feature one of Mother Nature's most violent displays of force as its star.