We’re not in Kansas anymore.

“Twisters,” an update of the original 1996 “Twister” movie with Bill Paxton, blew away everything this weekend.

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, “Twisters” smashed expectations with $80.5 mil at the box office.

Glen Powell, star of the year, is the head storm chaser. His non stop PR and marketing campaign helped the movie overturn everything around it.

Powell has already had two hits in 2024 — Richard Linklater’s smart “Hit Man” on Netflix, and the romcom “Anyone But You.” His meteoric rise this season follows his appearance in “Top Gun Maverick.”

For Chung, “Twister” is a huge leap forward after his Oscar nominated, and very different, “Minari,” put him on the map.

The rest of the box office wasn’t even stormy. Holdovers from last week and early this summer had tepid responses. Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” failed to break $28 million after 4 weeks. Sony’s “Fly me to the Moon” is a total bust after 2 weeks with just $16.3 million. Indies “Kinds of Kindness” and “The Bikeriders” have slipped into the abyss.

And so we wait for “Deadpool and Wolverine” to challenge “Twister.” If Ryan Reynolds were really clever, he’d have a video of him and Hugh Jackman playing the game, Twister. (Send a check here.)

The Sundance Film Festival, invented by Robert Redford in 1980, has taken place in Park City, Utah all this time.

But the festival and the city have not always gotten along. Even though Redford has brought more to Park City than they could have ever imagined, the end of the relationship may be near.

Sundance is considering offers to move. The choices are Atlanta, Boulder, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Santa Fe — as well as just staying put.

Moving would be a seachange for Sundance, where pneumonia, the flu, and frostbite make the viewing of indie movies a sniffling affair. It’s always freezing, wet, and snowing. The cabs cost a fortune but there’s not many other ways to get around.

If there’s a move, it would affect the 2027 Festival. The next two — 2025 and 2026– are set for Park City.

A statement says: “Along with members of the selection committee, we will meet with the finalists’ representatives in each of their cities in the coming weeks to further explore the possibilities of the Festival in those locations and the unique opportunities each presents.”

Atlanta, Boulder, Louisville, and Cincinnati all sound fairly generic and lacking much character. Santa Fe would be a welcome weather change. In the end, I think most people would prefer remaining in Park City despite Wahso restaurant having closed.

So stay tuned. These may be the last two winters to buy an oil painting of a bear eating a fish at a Main Street gallery.

“I’ve waited a long time for this team up,” Deadpool says in the new trailer for “Deadpool and Wolverine.”

He stands facing the ruins of the 20th Century Fox logo. Wolverine was part of the X Men, which was made by Fox until they were subsumed into Disney.

Very meta. Very witty. Like all of the Deadpool and Wolverine marketing, coming from Ryan Reynolds. No one is talking about Reynolds’ real genius in marketing movies, vodka, phone companies. He knows what he’s doing.

So don’t think for a minute that Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, mother of his four daughters, isn’t playing Lady Deadpool. Lively doing this is bigger and more meaningful than Taylor Swift.

Wolverine, meantime, encounters his long lost daughter, and does a little imitation of Spider Man casting his webs. All the dialogue is fast talking, very glib, and spot on. I’d like to see this movie with captions!

Deadpool and Wolverine opens next Thursday, and it will break box office records. But real story here is Reynolds. He’s the most interesting person making studio films.