{"id":725804,"date":"2026-06-09T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725804\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:25:10","slug":"endless-rooms-and-records-backrooms-is-a24s-highest-grossing-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725804\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless rooms and records: Backrooms is A24’s highest-grossing movie ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a world of reboots, remakes and sequels, an original story said, “Hold my popcorn.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Backrooms is officially A24\u2019s highest-grossing worldwide release, as well as the studio\u2019s first movie to surpass $200 million US<\/a> in ticket sales.<\/p>\n

In less than two weeks, the breakout horror phenom from YouTuber Kane Parsons generated $212 million globally, including $135 million in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n

\"DirectorIn less than two weeks, the breakout horror phenom from YouTuber Kane Parsons generated $212 million US globally, including $135 million in the U.S. and Canada. (A24 via The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

It took the box-office crown from last year\u2019s Timothy Chalamet-led ping pong awards contender Marty Supreme, which previously held the studio\u2019s top spot, making $191 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But wait, that\u2019s not all. Backrooms set all kinds of records for A24, the studio behind prestige films like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Moonlight and The Drama.<\/p>\n

All this on a tight $10-million budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

YouTube success story<\/p>\n

Before it became a box-office heavy hitter, Backrooms was a laptop passion project using 3D animation software. <\/p>\n

It began as a viral 22-video found-footage YouTube series<\/a> that Parsons started posting in 2022. It has since amassed more than 25 million views and developed a cult following.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old director told The Independent<\/a> that his “world on YouTube, the whole landscape that I’ve grown up with, has necessitated an extreme attention to detail since the beginning.”<\/p>\n

WATCH | Backrooms trailer:<\/p>\n

That attention to detail didn’t go unnoticed, clearly. The YouTube series caught the attention of A24, who hired Parsons to take his concept further and direct the film about liminal spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chris Ferguson, a Vancouver-based producer on\u00a0Backrooms,\u00a0says he knew Parsons’s audience would transition to the big screen with him because “we were always being true to the series.”<\/p>\n

“I think the lesson is to stop underestimating the audience.”<\/p>\n

In case you haven’t already seen it, it follows a furniture story owner, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who finds a secret door in his shop that leads into an endless stretch of empty rooms.\u00a0After he disappears, his therapist, played by Renate Reinsve, heads into the unknown to try and rescue him. <\/p>\n

Alongside A24, the film was produced by Chernin Entertainment, Canadian Shawn Levy\u2019s 21 Laps, and James Wan, who’s behind haunting horrors like The Conjuring and Insidious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-725804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725804","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=725804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}