{"id":930628,"date":"2026-10-16T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930628\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:00:11","slug":"seth-rogen-says-anything-but-ghosts-is-even-better-than-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930628\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Says ‘Anything But Ghosts’ Is “Even Better” Than ‘Obsession’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor Obsession<\/a> writer-director Curry Barker<\/a>, rolling out a follow-up to the biggest surprise breakout of the year is a pretty daunting task \u2014 especially given Barker cast himself in the film\u2019s lead role. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut Seth Rogen<\/a> says he\u2019s actually seen Barker\u2019s follow-up, Anything But Ghosts<\/a>, which is released next year. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd The Studio creator claims the film is not only better than Obsession, but that Barker crushes his major feature film on-camera debut. <\/p>\n

\n\tWriting for Time magazine\u2019s Time 100 package<\/a>, Rogen described the experience of watching Obsession for the first time in a theater, then added, \u201cI\u2019ve seen Curry\u2019s next film, Anything But Ghosts\u2014and for those of you who, like me, are uncomfortable with this amount of talent in a person so young, I have bad news \u2026 it\u2019s even better, and, to add insult to injury, he\u2019s just as good an actor as he is a director.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnything But Ghosts stars Barker and his producing partner and Obsession co-star Cooper Tomlinson as two fake paranormal investigators hired by a couple (Bryce Dallas Howard and Aaron Paul) who have a real haunted house. The film was written by Barker and Tomlinson and shot before Obsession was released. Like his hit debut, Ghosts will be distributed by Focus Features. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring Barker\u2019s interview for The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s cover story<\/a> on the director\u2019s wild success in June, he was in the middle of editing Ghosts and expressed concern about comparing the film to the rather high bar set by Obsession. \u201cIf I\u2019m worried, it\u2019s comparing it to Obsession that\u2019s hard,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a buddy comedy, but it\u2019s still going to be scary and messed up,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t not have these feelings when your first movie is breaking box office records and you\u2019re in your room editing your next movie thinking, \u2018Oh my god, did I take this beat from Obsession?\u2019 Thank God I have people around me to ground me and tell me that Anything But Ghosts is good and different, and that\u2019s OK. Nobody wants the same movie twice. So people can expect it to be very different than Obsession, but my voice will still be very strong in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGhosts had a production budget of $5 million<\/a> \u2014 which is rather lavish when compared to the famously frugal $750,000 budget of Obsession. Obsession topped $500 million globally, and is in the awards conversation. It stands as the fifth highest-grossing horror movie of all time globally. The film will be released in May, 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Obsession writer-director Curry Barker, rolling out a follow-up to the biggest surprise breakout of the year is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[85610,64,63,82422,134,344,85719,18031],"class_list":["post-930628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anything-but-ghosts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-curry-barker","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-seth-rogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930628","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=930628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}