{"id":721364,"date":"2026-06-07T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:17:09","slug":"obsession-crosses-200m-globally-focus-top-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721364\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obsession&#8217; Crosses $200M Globally, Focus&#8217; Top Movie Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe world is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/box-office-scary-movie-masters-universe-obsession-backrooms-1236615518\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obsessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession_1\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a>.<\/a> Curry Barker\u2019s breakout horror hit has crossed $200 million globally, making it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/focus-fea\/\" id=\"auto-tag_focus-fea_1\" data-tag=\"focus-fea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Features<\/a>\u2018 biggest movie of all time. It already was the studio\u2019s biggest movie domestically of all time, where it stands at $151 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe news comes as Obsession dropped just 7 percent in its fourth weekend, with its $25.6 million setting a record for the best fourth weekend hold ever for a horror film, as well as the top fourth weekend ever for horror. The previous record holder on both counts was Blair Witch Project, which was down 9 percent in 1999 and earned $24.2 million in its fourth weekend, after being the first movie since 1982\u2019s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial to increase in weekends two and three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen Focus acquired Obsession out of Toronto International Film Festival for around $15 million, no one could have known it would go on to be the Universal-owned specialty label\u2019s top movie of all time, beating out the continuation of a beloved TV show (2019\u2019s Downton Abbey, $193.3 million globally), a hit from its resident horror auteur Robert Eggers (Nosferatu, $181.8 million globally), a George Clooney\/Brad Pitt Coen Brothers movie (Burn After Reading, $164.3 million globally) or a historical Oscar winner (Darkest Hour, $150.3 million globally).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBarker shot Obsession independently for $750,000 with a cast of unknowns. Before that, he was best known for the horror short The Chair, a found-footage movie Milk &amp; Serial he posted to free for YouTube, as well as his sketch comedy channel That\u2019s a Bad Idea, run with partner Dr Cooper Tomlinson. Obsession has catapulted him into A-list filmmaker territory and made him one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe has already shot his follow-up movie, Anything But Ghosts, and is attached to helm a The Texas Chainsaw movie for A24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world is obsessed with Obsession. Curry Barker\u2019s breakout horror hit has crossed $200 million globally, making it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,12445,337,68813],"class_list":["post-721364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-movies","tag-obsession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721364","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=721364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}