Moviegoers continued to submerge themselves into the Backrooms on Monday, shelling out $7.669M. That’s the best Monday ever for a R-rated horror movie in June, outstripping the $4.3M made by New Line’s The Conjuring 2 on June 13, 2016. As we told you, Backrooms for the 3 Arts-repped Kane Parsons charted the best opening ever […]

Hugh Jackman has had one of the more interesting careers of any actor working consistently in Hollywood today. Jackman earned an Oscar nomination 13 years ago for his performance in Les Misérables, which co-stars Russell Crowe, but it’s not what he’s become remembered for in the larger scope of his career. Jackman has become synonymous with playing Wolverine, the jaded Marvel mutant whom he first starred as in the Fox X-Men movies before crossing over to the MCU a few years ago in Deadpool & Wolverine. Jackman first played the character more than 25 years ago in the first X-Men movie with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, and he’s expected to continue playing the clawed mutant, at least through Avengers: Secret Wars next year. Jackman has always found time for other roles, though, even between big Marvel blockbusters.

“Backrooms” star Mark Duplass took to X on Tuesday to defend Kane Parsons from rumors that the 20-year-old filmmaker didn’t actually direct the upcoming horror film. Responding to an X user who claimed Parsons “absolutely didn’t direct” A24’s “Backrooms,” Duplass wrote, “Hmmm, with all due respect I don’t remember seeing you on set. When I […]

Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” has already shattered the record for A24’s best opening weekend. Adapted from Parsons’ viral YouTube series, “Backrooms” earned $38 million domestic on Friday from 3,442 theaters, and is projected to gross $85 million to $90 million through the weekend. That’s more than triple the previous record holder, Alex Garland’s thriller “Civil War,” […]

For quite some time, Hollywood has moaned about the lost YouTube generation at the box office: How do we get the Gen Z set in? Sure, they’ll show up for a Marvel movie, but today’s 18-25 demo aren’t attending like they did in the 1980s. Finally, arguably this year, Hollywood has been able to harness […]

Although some of the cast and crew got lost on the set of Backrooms, writer/director Kane Parsons apparently knew where he was going. Mark Duplass, who stars in Parsons’ feature debut based on his 2022 web series, defended the 20-year-old filmmaker against speculation he “absolutely didn’t direct this movie,” which makes him A24’s youngest director […]

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Bourdain’s renegade sushi chef hits screens later this year when Get Jiro bows on Adult Swim. Series creator Alessandro Tanaka dropped by Deadline’s SXSW London Live Studio to tell us what to expect, including Titus Welliver (Bosch), Alison Pill (Scott Pilgrim) and Justin Kirk (Weeds) joining the voice cast alongside the previously-announced Brian […]

Who saw this coming? Kane Parson’s Backrooms is crossing $100 million today at the domestic box office, becoming A24’s first movie ever to do so, and their highest grossing movie stateside, surpassing the Timothée Chalamet period dramedy Marty Supreme ($96M domestic). And Backrooms pulled this off in six days. On a global basis, with north […]

Ari Aster said during a Q&A after an Egyptian Theatre screening of “Hereditary” (via Gold Derby) that he wrote a prequel to his 2018 horror hit, but doesn’t have any plans to shoot it. “I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster said on Sunday night. “It never feels like the right time. It’s a prequel, […]

The half hour or so first act of Michael Sarnoski’s surprising new film The Death of Robin Hood basically makes Game of Thrones look like child’s play. In full widescreen dark hellish color palettes we are taken to the Celtic fringe of 1247 AD, where Sarnoski proceeds to destroy any previous cinematic incarnation of the […]

Born in 2005, the year YouTube launched, Backrooms director Kane Parsons has “always taken that for granted,” having the platform at his disposal. “YouTube, really more than just being a cultural reference for me, has been how I know how to do any of the stuff I do,” he explains while discussing his “weird dream […]

Despite the resounding financial and critical success of Ari Aster’s debut feature Hereditary, the horror auteur has no immediate plans for a followup. Amid the American Cinematheque’s annual Bleak Week — which featured a lineup of his fare, including Midsommar: Director’s Cut, Beau Is Afraid and Eddington — the filmmaker spoke at a Q&A yesterday, revealing he […]