{"id":651658,"date":"2026-06-22T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651658\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:22:15","slug":"obsession-and-backrooms-both-top-300m-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651658\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ Both Top $300M At Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In non-Toy Story 5 weekend box office news, three other new semi-wide releases barely made a peep amid the Pixar sequel\u2019s sky-high opening weekend. Once upon a time, an R-rated Cameron Diaz comedy like Bad Teacher could open with $30 million alongside a $66 million debut for Cars 2, or an Angelina Jolie\/James McAvoy R-rated sci-fi action thriller like Wanted could open with $50 million alongside a $63 million opening for WALL-E. Today, any would-be competitor opening as well as the $14-$17 million likes of\u00a0The Omen 666, Drag Me to Hell, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,\u00a0Tag and Child\u2019s Play against (respectively) Cars, Up, Brave, Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4\u00a0would almost count as aspirational.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2026, Focus Features\u2019 Girls Like Girls ($1.6 million in 504 theaters), A24\u2019s The Death of Robin Hood ($2.6 million in 1,760 theaters) and NEON\u2019s Leviticus ($2.75 million in 1,076 theaters) all opened with under $7 million combined. That\u2019s barely above the $6 million debut of Open Road\u2019s Dope in 2015, alongside the $90 million opening for Inside Out and the $108 million second-weekend gross of Jurassic World. All three of them were, to varying degrees, small movies meant to procure a few bucks while they could. Even Hugh Jackman\u2019s revisionist version of revisionist history cost $20 million, for which A24 spent $4 million on domestic distribution. <\/p>\n

Concurrently, the online rags selling Leviticus, a grim and mournful melodramatic metaphor for gay conversion therapy, as the next <\/a>Obsession<\/a> were frankly doing more harm than good. Moreover, to be fair, a Cars 3 opening of $54 million in 2017 makes it easier for a $24 million opening for the Tupac biopic\u00a0All Eyez on Me,\u00a0the $11 million launch of\u00a047 Meters Down, and the $8 million debut of Rough Night. Nonetheless, in 2016, we still had enough room for\u00a0Finding Dory\u00a0to open with $136 million and\u00a0Central Intelligence\u00a0to debut with $36 million. Most shark movies barely open in theaters, and even most raunchy coms (romantic or otherwise) end up on SVOD platforms.<\/p>\n

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