With a new film, Twisters, hitting theaters this weekend, we’re checking in with the stars of the original film — see who’s no longer with us, with they look like now and what they’ve been up to since 1996 👀

blew away audiences with nearly $500 million in global ticket sales, not adjusted for inflation.

The studio has never tried to bill Twisters as a direct sequel to the first film, but rather as a new chapter in the story of obsessive storm chasers who want to harness science to better understand these forces of nature.

The disaster action-adventure starsMinari‘s Lee Isaac Chung directed the $155 million movie, which could open anywhere from $40 million to $50 million domestically, according to tracking services (based on advance ticket sales, some exhibitors have it higher).

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by a friend (Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with a charming and reckless social-media superstar (Powell) who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew.

Twisters is from Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. Universal is handling domestic distribution duties, while Warners International has overseas. The pic opened in its first raft of foreign markets last weekend, taking in $11 million.