{"id":671704,"date":"2026-05-29T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:48:09","slug":"box-office-backrooms-amazing-with-9m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671704\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#8216;Backrooms&#8217; Amazing With $9M In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: There\u2019s a lot of cash getting stuffed in those <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/backrooms\/\" id=\"auto-tag_backrooms\" data-tag=\"backrooms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backrooms<\/a>. The A24 Kane Parsons feature take of his digital IP is racking up $9M in previews which began at 4PM. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe told you presales were at a crazy blockbuster level, around Scream 7\u2018s. Well, guess what? The previews here for Backrooms are ahead of Scream 7\u2018s $7.8M, as well as John Wick: Chapter 4 ($8.9M) and not far from Eternals ($9.5M) and Five Night\u2019s at Freddy\u2019s ($10.3M); the latter another fervent fan-driven property. The opening range for those movies are between $63.6M and $80M, and many distribution sources are now giddy that this R-rated genre movie will easily blow past its most recent forecast of $40M-$45M. Again, it\u2019s all about how front-loaded this is. As of tracking this AM, Backrooms was hot with men and women under 25 and not far from the first choice for Final Destination: Bloodlines ($51.6M opening).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuccess has many fathers and those are Atomic Monster-Blumhouse, 21 Laps, Odd Fellow and Chernin Entertainment on Parsons\u2019 feature directorial debut. The latter co-financed this pic for under $10M with A24. From the sounds of it, Backrooms looks to be in the black by the end of the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurrently, critics are outweighing audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, 88% to 74%, for this movie which follows a therapist (Oscar nominee Renate Reinsve) who goes looking for patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in his desolate furniture store. An alter, freakish universe is found within. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MCDOBSE_UC008.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"674\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OBSESSION<\/a>, from left: Michael Johnston, Megan Lawless, Cooper Tomlinson, 2025. \u00a9 Focus Features \/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn another rally for movies from YouTube creators, Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession from Focus Features and Blumhouse\/Atomic Monster beat Disney\/Lucasfilm\u2019s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on Wednesday, $5.6M to $4.1M. Running cume for Obsession stands at $73.5M to Mando and Baby Yoda\u2019s $108.8M. Obsession is now the No. 1 movie for the week in some prolific theaters including AMC Empire in Times Square and Regal Union Square in NYC. The question now is how hard will Mandalorian and Grogu fall with a double feature of Obsession and Backrooms on marquees? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: There\u2019s a lot of cash getting stuffed in those Backrooms. 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