{"id":630633,"date":"2026-09-20T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630633\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:40:11","slug":"backrooms-surpasses-400-million-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630633\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Backrooms’ Surpasses $400 Million at Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cBackrooms<\/a>\u201d has hit $400 million at the global box office, a remarkable benchmark for the low-budget indie sensation.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter nearly four months on the big screen, \u201cBackrooms\u201d has generated $197.5 million domestically and $202.57 million internationally for a worldwide tally of $400.07 million. Produced for just $10 million, the surprise horror hit has become A24<\/a>\u2018s highest-grossing release of all time as well as one of the most profitable movies of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tYouTuber Kane Parsons<\/a> directed \u201cBackrooms,\u201d which shattered box-office expectations thanks to electric word-of-mouth and enthusiasm among Gen Z audiences. \u201cBackrooms\u201d and \u201cObsession,\u201d another low-budget horror smash from a young YouTube star-turned-director, together upended conventional wisdom that younger crowds weren\u2019t all that into going to the movies. \u201cObsession,\u201d which was made by 26-year-old Curry Barker, has generated an incredible $516 million globally and cost $750,000 to produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tFueled by \u201cBackrooms,\u201d A24 enjoyed its biggest summer ever and managed to beat Warner Bros. and Paramount in terms of market share. It\u2019s one of the rare times an indie distributor has outgrossed a major studio during popcorn season, one of the busiest times of year for moviegoing. A24 ended the summer with $237 million in total and ranked fourth among distributors, ahead of Paramount with $192 million and Warner Bros. with $165 million, and behind Universal with a towering $1.12 billion, Sony with $978.8 million, and Disney with $664 million. (Focus Features, which released \u201cObsession,\u201d is owned by Universal.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong other records, \u201cBackrooms\u201d is by far A24\u2019s highest-grossing movie of all time, towering above the prior high-water mark set by \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d with $192 million. It also delivered the indie studio\u2019s biggest debut with $81 million domestically and $118 million worldwide, more than tripling the domestic record previously held by Alex Garland\u2019s 2024 thriller \u201cCivil War\u201d with $25.5 million. And Parsons, who was 20, became the youngest filmmaker with a No. 1 film at the box office, overtaking the benchmark held by Josh Trank, who was 27 when 2012\u2019s \u201cChronicle\u201d launched in first place with $22 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of the United States and Canada, the highest-grossing territories for \u201cBackrooms\u201d were China with $27.8 million, Mexico with $17.8 million, the United Kingdom with $17.6 million, Australia and New Zealand with $12.3 million and France with $12.2 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBackrooms\u201d is based on Parsons\u2019 popular web series about liminal spaces \u2014 eerie, seemingly endless rooms and structures that originated on 4chan and gained popularity over the years in online forums like Reddit and TikTok. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass star in the movie, which follows a furniture store operator who discovers an endless array of liminal spaces in the store\u2019s basement. Although a sequel hasn\u2019t been confirmed, Parsons has hinted<\/a> he wants to turn \u201cBackrooms\u201d into a film franchise. Meanwhile every other studio is on the hunt to find the next Parsons<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBackrooms\u201d has hit $400 million at the global box office, a remarkable benchmark for the low-budget indie sensation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15608,147231,93,61,60,147232,270],"class_list":["post-630633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a24","tag-backrooms","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kane-parsons","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}