Backrooms Breaks A24 Opening Weekend Record With $38M Friday
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.