To commemorate 30 years since the franchise's first film, the Iowa State Fair will include butter sculptures of beloved 'Toy Story' characters this summer.

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A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated ...

1996’s Twister is one of the best ... standard for its genre and turned a cow blowing away in the wind into an icon. Point Break is an iconic '90s movie in which Keanu Reeves plays rookie ...

Pictures, and Amblin Entertainment Before I saw Twisters, I wondered what merited a sequel to the 1996 smash hit Twister ... including an iconic flying cow. Perhaps a new angle on the story?

Cow!,'" Marshall said with a chuckle. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "The (first) 'Twister' movie gave us the opportunity to say, 'Could this actually happen? What is the ...

CG was also used to create the objects—trucks, telephone poles, trees, and, of course, a cow—that were ... Just two months after Twister brought the disaster movie back to life, Roland ...

The original “Twister” had something going for it. It was 1996, and we hadn’t seen some of the special effects and graphics in the movie. We had never seen a cow blowing by in a thunderstorm.

Pictures and Amblin Entertainment The scene itself pays homage to Twister by referencing a moment when several of the film's core characters are in the center of a storm, witnessing a flying cow ...

The director initially remarked that he didn’t want the cow to become a cheap gimmick in his movie. “Any time I talk to anyone about that original Twister they would say, ‘Oh yeah ...