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This is a historic weekend both for the box office and for horror movies thanks to A24\/Chernin\u2019s \u201cBackrooms\u201d and Focus Features\u2019 \u201cObsession,\u201d both of which are setting records for their respective studios and for Hollywood as a whole. <\/p>\n
With a $118 million global opening, including an $81.4 million domestic launch that matches last weekend\u2019s 3-day opening of Disney\/Lucasfilm\u2019s \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu,\u201d \u201cBackrooms\u201d has not only become the biggest opening ever for A24 by a considerable margin, it has also become the highest opening ever for an original film from a debut director and has made 20-year-old Kane Parsons the youngest filmmaker ever to top the box office charts. <\/p>\n
And like the 2023 video game adaptation \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s,\u201d which opened to a similar $80 million in North America, \u201cBackrooms\u201d is drawing its audience almost entirely from younger audiences as 86% of moviegoers are under the age of 35, with 66% under the age of 25 and an astonishing 44% under the age of 21. For comparison, \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu,\u201d with a near identical opening weekend total, had an under-25 audience share of 27%. <\/p>\n
Even if this heavy skewing towards Gen Z and Gen Alpha, combined with good but not stellar audience scores like a B- on CinemaScore and 74% on Rotten Tomatoes leads to a more frontloaded theatrical run, \u201cBackrooms\u201d has already more than turned a theatrical profit and will easily pass the $191 million global total of \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d in the coming week to become A24\u2019s highest grossing film ever. <\/p>\n
And with a clear sequel hook at the end, \u201cBackrooms\u201d has everything it needs to become A24\u2019s first tentpole franchise in its 13-year history. <\/p>\n
With this strong opening for a horror film, one might think that the other horror title storming theaters right now, \u201cObsession,\u201d would have its momentum undercut. Not so. In its third weekend, Curry Barker\u2019s hit saw its weekend grosses increase yet again<\/em> by 10% to $26.4 million for a running total of $104.7 million domestic, an all-time record for Focus Features, along with $148 million worldwide. <\/p>\n It\u2019s an impressive figure considering that \u201cObsession\u201d didn\u2019t have the significant YouTube hype that \u201cBackrooms\u201d had before its release, as the buzz from its midnight TIFF premiere last year was largely confined to industry insiders and hardcore cinephiles. <\/p>\n But since its release, its disturbing story and Inde Navarrette\u2019s star-making performance have made it a can\u2019t-miss film that keeps finding new moviegoers and has allowed it to perform in a way that has only been seen in recent years by Angel\u2019s 2023 indie hit \u201cSound of Freedom,\u201d which \u201cObsession\u201d is on pace to pass with a $200 million-plus domestic run. <\/p>\n There is also one big thread that connects this weekend\u2019s two big horror hits: Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Jason Blum and James Wan\u2019s merged horror production studio. Atomic Monster was a co-producer on \u201cBackrooms\u201d alongside Shawn Levy\u2019s 21 Laps and Peter Chernin\u2019s North Road Entertainment, while Blumhouse co-produced \u201cObsession,\u201d the lowest-budgeted film to pass $100 million domestically since Blum\u2019s original claim to fame, \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d in 2009. <\/p>\n But with this success, there is a flipside, as \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d has dropped a steep 70% from its opening weekend to a $25 million second weekend, bringing its total to $137.4 million domestic and $246.6 million worldwide. <\/p>\n While families are still turning out for this feature follow-up to the hit \u201cStar Wars\u201d TV series, the general audience success of \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms,\u201d particularly among the under-25 demographic, is clearly making its impact felt. And with the return of the horror parody series \u201cScary Movie\u201d next weekend, that\u2019s not going to change. <\/p>\n At this point, \u201cMandalorian and Grogu\u201d has fallen behind the pace of the 2018 dud \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story,\u201d and it is increasingly likely that it will fail to match that film\u2019s $392 million global total. <\/p>\n More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thewrap.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a historic weekend both for the box office and for horror movies thanks to A24\/Chernin\u2019s \u201cBackrooms\u201d and Focus Features\u2019 \u201cObsession,\u201d both of which are setting records for their respective studios and for Hollywood as a whole. 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