{"id":704640,"date":"2026-05-30T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:43:12","slug":"backrooms-is-a-certified-blockbuster-with-a-38-million-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704640\/","title":{"rendered":"Backrooms is a certified blockbuster with a $38 million opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Kane Parsons\u2019 film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/938437\/backrooms-youtube-kane-parsons-a12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backrooms<\/a> is expected to earn up to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/box-office-backrooms-breaks-record-a24-kane-parsons-1236763092\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$90 million<\/a> in its opening weekend after pulling down <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-backrooms-1236929953\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$38 million<\/a> on Friday alone. That\u2019s not only above <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/backrooms-box-office-opening-weekend-projections-a24-record-1236759146\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expectations<\/a>, but absolutely obliterates A24\u2019s previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War. It\u2019s also a better opening day than The Mandalorian and Grogu, which only pulled down $33.7 million on its way to a total $81.6 million for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">That also means that Backrooms is an incredibly profitable movie, with an estimated $10 million budget. By comparison, the latest Star Wars disappointment cost $165 million and was considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/news\/ni65191166\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affordable<\/a> compared to other entries in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While Backrooms hasn\u2019t received quite as much universal praise as fellow low-budget horror breakout Obsession, it\u2019s still largely getting positive reviews. It also adds to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/874285\/undertone-trailer-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/874500\/iron-lung-theater-box-office-markiplier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23578425\/talk-to-me-review-sundance-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> creators (including Obsession\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thats_a_bad_idea\/videos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curry Barker<\/a>) who have proven to be successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/trailers\/640692\/brind-her-back-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">box office draws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kane Parsons\u2019 film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,1554,44],"class_list":["post-704640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}