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'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

This weekend was one for the box office history books. Movie theaters across the nation were jamming with Gen Z crowds, who showed up en masse for not one but two buzzy horror films. A24’s “Backrooms” collected a jaw-dropping, record-breaking $81 million from 3,442 North American theaters in its opening weekend.

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‘Scary Movie’ tops box office, slaying ‘Masters of the Universe’

The summer box office is booming — but not because of the usual suspects. After three weeks of indie horror dominance at the box office, the slasher spoof “Scary Movie” topped ticket sales with $55 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, easily besting the far-from-mighty “Masters of the Universe.” A new order has lately come to movie theaters, which have seen Gen Z ticket buyers flock to the horror hits “Obsession” and “Backrooms,” both made by...

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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...

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Why the Public Is Gravitating Toward the Hunter Biden Approach

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Meet Hollywood’s new masters of horror: YouTubers

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007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans

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Bound by blood: new film highlights Jamaica’s outlawed obeah belief system

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Bound by blood: new film highlights Jamaica’s outlawed obeah belief system

Stew Peas focuses on obeah, an enduring African magic practice in Jamaica banned by colonisers in the 1700sA new movie from award-winning Jamaican film-maker Sosiessia Nixon shines a spotlight on Jamaica’s enduring west African-based magic and spiritual healing tradition known as obeah. Nixon’s tense, feature-length suspense, Stew Peas, tells of the story of Jamaican detective Tessa, who is obsessed with an old murder case.

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Shift from a Leader-Follower to a Leader-Leader Approach

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