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How ‘Backrooms’ producer Peter Chernin thinks Hollywood needs to change
Over the past week, one conversation has dominated Hollywood executive lunches and studio staff meetings: What's the next "Backrooms"? The industry is scrambling to figure out how to replicate the phenomenon of "Obsession" and "Backrooms," low-budget psychological horror films directed by YouTube creators that have dominated the box office over the past two weeks. But "Backrooms" producer Peter Chernin, whose production company cofinanced the film, said he thinks the rush to sign deals with...
Backrooms is a reminder that the internet is the future of cinema
Backrooms is a reminder that the internet is the future of cinema Kane Parsons joins plenty of other YouTubers who’ve made their way to the big screen. The story behind the Backrooms is almost as trippy as the film itself. Kane Parsons taught himself how to use Adobe After Effects and Blender as a teenager, experimented with online short films, and rose to online fame with his first Backrooms short in 2022 (which now has nearly 80 million views).
Backrooms, based on a YouTube horror series, breaks box office records
Backrooms, based on YouTube horror series, breaks box office records The movie’s massive opening weekend haul is the largest ever for an original horror film. A24’s Backrooms, the big-screen adaptation of a viral YouTube horror series, smashed several box office records with an US$81.5 million (S$104.13 million) North American debut, United States media reported Sunday. Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, who created the Backrooms web series as a teenager, the movie’s massive opening...
Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms
Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box office for his directing debut Backrooms. Parsons, 20, is seven years younger than the previous record holder, Josh Trank, who was 27 when his debut Chronicle recorded a $22m opening in 2011. Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend in North America – which was...
Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms
Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box office for his directing debut Backrooms. Parsons, 20, is seven years younger than the previous record holder, Josh Trank, who was 27 when his debut Chronicle recorded a $22m opening in 2011. Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend in North America – which was...
Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms
Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box office for his directing debut Backrooms. Parsons, 20, is seven years younger than the previous record holder, Josh Trank, who was 27 when his debut Chronicle recorded a $22m opening in 2011. Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend in North America – which was...
Backrooms: The creepy internet phenomenon, explained
Backrooms: The creepy internet phenomenon, explained June 3, 2026In "Backrooms," Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a failed architect who runs a dreary discount furniture-store, drinking himself to sleep in his shop, depressed by his divorce. One day, he discovers a portal to a mysterious labyrinth of corridors with no apparent end. His therapist, Mary, is played by "Sentimental Value" star Renate Reinsve.
Young YouTubers dominate the box office with 'Backrooms,' 'Obsession'
Young YouTubers are making big waves at the box office. Twenty-year-old Kane Parsons became the youngest director to have the No. 1 film at the box office with his new horror flick "Backrooms," which earned a whopping $81 million. "Backrooms" is a big screen adaptation of Parsons' 2022 found footage-style web series inspired from a 2019 image posted on the social platform 4chan.
<em>Backrooms</em>, <em>Obsession </em>Usher in the Era of the YouTube Filmmaker
Los Angeles Special Screening Of A24's "Backrooms" SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - MAY 07: (L-R) Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, director Kane Parsons and actress Renate Reinsve attend the Los Angeles Special Screening of A24's "Backrooms" at the Aero Theatre on May 07, 2026 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images) Photographer: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villainWhen architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds a portal to a mysterious realm of “backrooms” in the basement of his showroom, he struggles to explain it to his therapist, Dr Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve).“I found a place …” Continue reading...