{"id":2438408,"date":"2026-05-30T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2438408"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:21:41","slug":"backrooms-is-a-certified-blockbuster-with-a-38-million-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/backrooms-is-a-certified-blockbuster-with-a-38-million-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Backrooms is a certified blockbuster with a $38 million opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Kane Parsons\u2019 film <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/938437\/backrooms-youtube-kane-parsons-a12\">Backrooms<\/a><\/em> is expected to earn up to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/box-office-backrooms-breaks-record-a24-kane-parsons-1236763092\/\">$90 million<\/a> in its opening weekend after pulling down <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-backrooms-1236929953\/\">$38 million<\/a> on Friday alone. That\u2019s not only above <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/backrooms-box-office-opening-weekend-projections-a24-record-1236759146\/\">expectations<\/a>, but absolutely obliterates A24\u2019s previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland\u2019s <em>Civil War<\/em>. It\u2019s also a better opening day than <em>The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/em>, which only pulled down $33.7 million on its way to a total $81.6 million for the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">That also means that Backrooms is an incredibly profitable movie, with an estimated $10 million budget. By comparison, the latest Star Wars disappointment cost $165 million and was considered <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/news\/ni65191166\/\">affordable<\/a> compared to other entries in the series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While <em>Backrooms<\/em> hasn\u2019t received quite as much universal praise as fellow low-budget horror breakout <em>Obsession<\/em>, it\u2019s still largely getting positive reviews. It also adds to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/874285\/undertone-trailer-2\">growing<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/874500\/iron-lung-theater-box-office-markiplier\">number<\/a> of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23578425\/talk-to-me-review-sundance-2023\">YouTube<\/a> creators (including <em>Obsession\u2019s<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thats_a_bad_idea\/videos\">Curry Barker<\/a>) who have proven to be successful <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/trailers\/640692\/brind-her-back-release-date\">box office draws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kane Parsons\u2019 film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That\u2019s not only above expectations, but absolutely obliterates A24\u2019s previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War. It\u2019s also a better opening day than The Mandalorian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,21799,21738],"class_list":["post-2438408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Backrooms-is-a-certified-blockbuster-with-a-38-million-opening.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438410,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438408\/revisions\/2438410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}