{"id":687818,"date":"2026-06-06T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:21:11","slug":"steven-spielberg-praises-obsession-backrooms-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687818\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Praises &#8216;Obsession&#8217;, &#8216;Backrooms&#8217; Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHollywood\u2019s new cohort of horror filmmakers have earned the praise of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/steven-spielberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_steven-spielberg\" data-tag=\"steven-spielberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> after a successful few weekends at the box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt a recent screening of his new movie Disclosure Day, premiering June 12 in theaters, the 3x Oscar winner expressed his amazement at seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/backrooms\/\" id=\"auto-tag_backrooms\" data-tag=\"backrooms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backrooms<\/a> do so well in theaters after they were made for \u201cvery little money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so happy for them. I think it\u2019s so fantastic,\u201d said Spielberg in a red carpet <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZM5-8LgM4X\/\">interview<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s great that they had basically very little money, especially Obsession had under $1 million, and the other film had maybe 10 or nine, and they\u2019re doing so well, and I just applaud them. I haven\u2019t seen Backrooms; I am going to see it when all this is over. But I have seen Obsession, and I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img 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\/06\/1780744871_22_MCDBACK_EC097.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-backrooms-1236929953\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img 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\/06\/MCDBACK_EC100_7279f7.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPremiering May 15 in theaters, writer\/director Curry Barker\u2019s horror breakout Obsession quickly became Focus Features\u2019 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-backrooms-1236929953\/\">highest grossing stateside release<\/a>, with a current domestic haul of $151.3M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMaking his directorial debut as A24\u2019s youngest ever at 20, Kane Parsons\u2019 Backrooms has already given the indie banner a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-backrooms-1236929953\/\">record opening<\/a> with $81.4M domestic, $118M worldwide. The horror film based on his web series has since become A24\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">highest grossing movie stateside<\/a> and its first to cross $100M domestic.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s new cohort of horror filmmakers have earned the praise of Steven Spielberg after a successful few weekends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[247168,236,88,85043,16827],"class_list":["post-687818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-backrooms","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obsession","tag-steven-spielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}