There has been a lot of buzz about A24’s latest entry into the cinematic horror sweepstakes where it seems every weekend a new You Tuber or previously unknown young filmmaker becomes the next big thing. Coming off self-financed You Tuber Mark Fischbach’s $50 million grossing early 2026 success, Iron Lung, and in the last couple […]

As Lukita Maxwell appears in one of the biggest horror movies of the year, she was hesitant to dive into the film’s online lore. The Backrooms actress recently explained why she wanted her character Kat to “have a fresh perspective” in the Kane Parsons-directed A24 film, based on his 2022 web series, resisting the urge […]

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 […]

Backrooms star Mark Duplass sees the overwhelming box office successes of horror entries Obsession and Backrooms as a beacon for a struggling industry. “I just want to take a moment to celebrate the glimmer of hope that Obsession and Backrooms are bringing to our industry,” he said in a video posted to X. “And I […]

While there was no conversation about the elephant in the room– the pending Paramount Warner Bros Discovery merger — at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca’s Produced By panel this afternoon, the studio boss took time to give props to the zeitgeist going on at the weekend box office, read the YouTube creators […]

“Backrooms” director Kane Parsons recently sounded off on AI in filmmaking during a recent interview with The Australian. The 20-year-old filmmaker said that he was “in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” and does not want to see the technology take over Hollywood. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear […]

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 […]

The power of Backrooms extends beyond the global box office and to TV markets in Germany. This week’s Cologne confab Seriencamp, which has become a crucial cog in the international TV calendar machine, was replete with chatter about the new generation of creatives propping up the box office, with Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, Curry Barker’s Obsession […]

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 […]

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 […]

With a record-breaking A24 directorial debut under his belt at age 20, Kane Parsons doesn’t see a place for AI in Hollywood’s future. The Backrooms director recently emphasized the “genuinely harmful consequences” that have already begun unfolding as generative AI becomes more popular in Hollywood and beyond. “I think I’m in the same boat as […]