{"id":2631,"date":"2026-05-30T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/30\/backrooms-setting-a24-record-with-80m-plus-opening-focus-obsession-making-box-office-history-in-third-weekend\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:37:00","slug":"backrooms-setting-a24-record-with-80m-plus-opening-focus-obsession-making-box-office-history-in-third-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/30\/backrooms-setting-a24-record-with-80m-plus-opening-focus-obsession-making-box-office-history-in-third-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Setting A24 Record With $80M-Plus Opening, Focus\u2019 \u2018Obsession\u2019 Making Box Office History in Third Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tKane Parsons is the new king of the box office<\/a> with Backrooms<\/a><\/em>. His $10 million adaptation of his viral YouTube short film series is eyeing the biggest opening in A24<\/a> history, with at least $80 million. Rival studios even think the film, co-financed and produced by Chernin Entertainment, could go as high as $90 million.<\/p>\n

\tIt will easily take the No. 1 spot, after landing with around $38 million on Friday, including Thursday previews. It focuses on a failed architect (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who stumbles across an endless series of rooms in the furniture store he manages. Around 86 percent of the audience is younger than 35 and more than half are under 25. \t<\/p>\n

\tThe ascension of Parsons, 20, comes just two weeks after fellow YouTuber Curry Barker became the hottest 20-something filmmaker in Hollywood<\/a> thanks to surprise hit Obsession<\/a><\/em>. The $750,000 feature, now in its third week, is making history as the first film outside of Christmas<\/a> since 1982 to increase in both its second and third weekends. It is expected to be up 19 percent from last weekend, with an estimated $28.5 million. That\u2019s after defying box office gravity last weekend, earning an unheard of 39 percent more in its second outing than its first. It is projected to end the weekend with $106.8 million domestically to become Focus\u2019 top grossing movie of all time in North America.<\/p>\n

\tIn its wake, Barker has been fielding intense attention<\/a> from Hollywood for his next original feature, even as he works on the edit of his already-shot movie, Anything But Ghosts<\/em> and contemplates a Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> reboot<\/a> for A24. \t<\/p>\n

\tIt all feels like a passing of the guard moment, with Parsons\u2019 and Barker\u2019s movies overshadowing the ultimate establishment franchise, Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\tStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a><\/em> is looking to bring in around $24 million in its second weekend, a drop of around 70 percent for a third place finish. It has already grossed $171 million globally, off a relatively trim (for Star Wars<\/em> standards) net budget of $165 million. Disney insiders have maintained that the pinwheel effect the movie has on merch, parks and Disney+ is part of its calculus for the movie beyond box office.<\/p>\n

\tOf new offerings, comic Nate Bargatze\u2019<\/a>s first-ever movie, The Breadwinner<\/a><\/em>, is aiming for a fifth place finish behind Michael<\/a> <\/em>with $7.5 million for the weekend.<\/strong> He stars opposite Mandy Moore as a hapless husband charged with running their household and caring for their children while his wife is away. It failed to clean up with critics, landing a 32 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though audiences have been kinder, granting it an 87 percent as well as an A- cinemascore. Studio Sony hopes that word of mouth will allow it to have legs. <\/p>\n

\tAnd Focus\u2019 World War II drama Pressure<\/a><\/em>, starring Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott, is aiming for $5.4 million for seventh place behind holdover The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logo text Kane Parsons is the new king of the box office with Backrooms. His $10 million adaptation of his viral YouTube short film series is eyeing the biggest opening in A24 history, with at least $80 million. Rival studios even think the film, co-financed and produced by Chernin Entertainment, could go as high as $90 million. It will easily take the No. 1 spot, after landing with around $38 million on Friday, including Thursday previews. It focuses on a failed architect (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who stumbles across an endless series of rooms in the furniture store he manages. Around 86 percent of the audience is younger than 35 and more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,142,83,2,27,60,1082],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a24","category-backrooms","category-box-office","category-hollywood","category-movie-news","category-movies","category-obsession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}