Backrooms Breaks A24 Opening Weekend Record With $38M Friday

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Backrooms, adapted from the viral YouTube series, is on track to deliver an $85–$90 million domestic opening weekend after grossing $38 million on Friday from 3,442 theaters, shattering A24’s prior opening-weekend record (Civil War’s $25.5M). The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, with producers James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins via Chernin Entertainment.
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