YouTube Horror Film 'Backrooms' Achieves Box Office Success, Sequel Planned
The horror film 'Backrooms,' originating from YouTube, has achieved significant box office success, with a sequel already in the works. This highlights a growing trend of YouTubers transitioning into mainstream filmmaking and impacting the industry.
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Young YouTubers dominate the box office with 'Backrooms,' 'Obsession'
Young Youtubers Kane Parsons and Curry Barker made a big splash at the box office with their films "Backrooms" and "Obsession," both of which outgrossed "The Mandalorian and Grogu."
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This past weekend marked a tectonic shift in Hollywood that’s sent shock waves across the industry. “Backrooms,” a horror film born out of a 4chan creepypasta and produced for around $10 million, opened to an extraordinary $81 million, smashing records for distributor A24; and “Obsession,” a horror film made on a budget of $750,000, grossed […]
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Moviegoers continued to submerge themselves into the Backrooms on Monday shelling out $7.669M. That’s the best Monday ever for a R-rated horror movie in June, outstripping the $4.3M made by New Line’s The Conjuring 2 on June 13, 2016. As we told you, Backrooms for the 3 Arts repped Kane Parsons, charted the best opening […]
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A sequel to Backrooms is in the works.
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