{"id":461104,"date":"2026-06-04T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:37:10","slug":"horror-flicks-from-young-youtubers-are-dominating-the-box-office-what-does-it-say-about-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/461104\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror flicks from young YouTubers are dominating the box office. What does it say about Hollywood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two low-budget horror films topped the box office charts this weekend. \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d have each made around $100 million, surging as Disney blockbuster \u201cStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d slumped.<\/p>\n<p>\nHost Scott Tong discusses the new YouTuber generation that\u2019s beating Hollywood at its own game with NPR movie critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/3813466\/bob-mondello\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bob Mondello<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/06\/04\/youtubers-horror-movies\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two low-budget horror films topped the box office charts this weekend. \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d have each made around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-461104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}