{"id":722056,"date":"2026-06-08T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722056\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:00:09","slug":"box-office-backrooms-is-a24s-highest-ever-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722056\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Backrooms’ Is A24’s Highest Ever At Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSUNDAY UPDATE: A24\u2019s Backrooms<\/a> became the studio\u2019s highest grossing movie ever in ten days of release with a running worldwide cume of $212.6M, unseating Marty Supreme<\/a>\u2018s final global of $191.2M. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kane Parsons feature take of his viral IP ranked third at the global box office with a second frame of $50.1M at 52 territories ($25.9M second domestic weekend, -68%, with another $24.1M from offshore). Total running cume in North America is $135M with international standing at $77.6M. <\/p>\n

\n\tOf note on Backrooms, the pic ranked No. 1 in Spain by a wide margin with $2M. The Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve movie also posted the best opening weekend results for an A24 title in Malaysia and the Philippines ever.On the holdover side, LatAm continues to lead all territories with $24.2M, making Backrooms A24\u2019s highest grossing title ever in the market. In the\u00a0UK, not only was it the highest grossing opening weekend for an A24 title in the territory, but also the best horror opening of the year so far.\u00a0Backrooms continues to play broadly commercial in the UK, bringing in $3M over the weekend and ranking 3rd overall. Total cume stands at $11.6M in the territory.\u00a0In Australia and New Zealand, the pic passed Marty Supreme to become A24\u2019s highest grossing title in the territory with $7.9M to date. South Korea posted an impressive -11% drop from its first weekend, culminating in $5.7M overall, a record for an A24 title in the country.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith $224.6M, Focus Features Obsession from YouTube genre content creator Curry Barker, became the Universal Classic label\u2019s highest grossing pic as well, unseating 2019\u2019s Downton Abbey. <\/p>\n

\n\tSATURDAY AM EXCLUSIVE: In less than a year\u2019s time, A24 has beat its own records twice: Kane Parsons\u2019 viral-born Backrooms will become the New York studio\u2019s highest grossing movie ever this weekend, if not by Monday, overtaking the $191.2M global haul previously racked up by the Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet-starring Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd that\u2019s even with a steep drop this weekend for Backrooms in North America, estimated at -68% with a second frame of $25.7M. Domestic cume by tomorrow is expected to be $134.8M. The running foreign cume as of yesterday stood at $50.3M (with global expected to be north of $185M by EOD Sunday). Again, that steep drop is due to the fact that Backrooms is a very fan-front loaded IP, with 81% of the second weekend audience still under 35. <\/p>\n

\n\tBackrooms accomplishes this record in its first 10 days at the box office (if not 11). It took the Josh Safdie, 9x Oscar nominated Marty Supreme 53 days to unseat A24\u2019s previous longtime top grossing movie, their multi-Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once ($147.9M WW).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you Wednesday, Backrooms became A24\u2019s highest grossing movie at the domestic box office, overtaking Marty Supreme ($96M) in its first six days of release. Again, this is a phenomenal achievement for A24: Backrooms cost under $10M, co-financed with Chernin Entertainment, with a domestic P&A in the teen millions.<\/p>\n

\n\tBackrooms stars Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve and was also produced by Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, 21 Laps and Phobos.<\/p>\n

\n\tLots of champagne popping around town with other studios seeing record results at the box office this summer: Lionsgate\u2019s Michael will cross $888M worldwide this weekend, becoming that studio\u2019s highest grossing title in its history. Also, Focus Features\u2019 Obsession with more than $151M by tomorrow, is already that label\u2019s top grossing stateside, and is bound to outstrip their pure Focus label top global grossing release ever, Downton Abbey which ended its run at $194.6M WW. (Note, Universal\u2019s classic label predecessor, USA Films, counts Traffic as its top grossing movie at $207.5M WW. It would not be shocking if Obsession passes that threshold ultimately). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNDAY UPDATE: A24\u2019s Backrooms became the studio\u2019s highest grossing movie ever in ten days of release with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,283466,134,52396,344],"class_list":["post-722056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-backrooms","tag-entertainment","tag-marty-supreme","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}