Joe and Anthony Russo hit the Deadline’s Reality TV Summit UK at SXSW London on Tuesday in the company of AGBO partner Donald Mustard and Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars collaborator. The trio confirmed they are currently in the throes of post-production on Avengers: Doomsday and…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the $118M opening for A24’s Backrooms, yes, of course there will be a sequel. Filmmaker and face of Backrooms Kane Parsons has made no secret on the press tour for the film about his desire to expand into a feature anthology, and that he’s taken the IP as far as possible on…

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 pos…

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…

It's an exciting weekend for indies film with two surprise global juggernauts by first-time directors who jumped from the internet to the big screen followed in droves by young fans. More traditional independent releases were led by a nice opening for Pressure and a solid expansion by…

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…

Backrooms wasn’t just a stateside sensation, rather the top A24 opening in over 30 countries across Latin America, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, South Korea, Middle East, Scandinavia, Taiwan, Israel and Turkey. As we told you, global came in at $118M for the Kane Parsons movie, of which $36M…

SUNDAY AM: A24’s Kane Parsons movie Backrooms is at $81.4M domestic, and $118M WW in what looks to be on a global basis this AM, the No. 1 movie. A24 claims that this is a No. 1 record opening for what is the youngest filmmaker ever, Parsons now 20 years old. The previous youngest filmmaker to have a…

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…

Even as many are in a doom-and-gloom state of mind about entertainment, producers Jason Blum and James Wan have nothing but good things to say, with their horror films Obsession and Backrooms dominating the box office this month. Joining outgoing PGA President Stephanie Allain for a fireside…

UPDATED with Parsons’ response: 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…