Backrooms Delivers Record Opening for A24 as Box Office Buzz Intensifies
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A24's Backrooms shattered expectations with an $81.4 million opening, its best start ever and a global tally around $118 million, powered by Kane Parsons's directorial debut; Obsession rose to about $26.4 million in its third weekend, becoming Focus Features' highest domestic release and fueling speculation it could finish in the mid-to-high hundreds of millions domestically; The Mandalorian and Grogu dropped 69 percent in its second weekend, while other titles posted smaller gains as the holiday weekend reshapes the box office.
- Weekend Box Office: Backrooms Shatters Expectations with $81.5 Million Debut Rotten Tomatoes
- YouTubers are setting box office records. It could change the future of moviemaking CNN
- Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms The Guardian
- Box Office: ‘Backrooms’ Stuns With $81 Million Debut, ‘Obsession’ Has Another Unprecedented Jump, ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Suffers 70% Drop Variety
- “Backrooms,” “Obsession,” and Hollywood’s Zoomer-Horror Renaissance The New Yorker
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