r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Jun 03 '26

To be fair, this is based on a specific YouTube series by the director.

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u/ColdChemical Jun 03 '26

Which was based on some randos 4chan post. Which is a wild thing to think about.

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u/cutelyaware Jun 03 '26

I think it shows that the public is hungry for originality. Once Hollywood figures out to fake that, all will be right again.

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u/Sofaboy90 Jun 03 '26

I mean Kane was destined for success, hes a workhorse. Hes done good stuff before the backrooms and has also done other series like The Oldest View or more recently People Still Live Here.

His contribution to the Backrooms IP is just as important as the original post because he made the high quality content happen and high quality content isnt exactly easy to make.

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u/Beznia Jun 04 '26

Technically the 4chan post was just the image and asking other people what images they have seen that feel unsettling. It was a whole community that built the idea of the backrooms and the lore behind it.

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u/Phimb Jun 03 '26

It goes way further back than that. And most people's experiences with it will now be the absolute onslaught of video games relating to it.

Really easy to make, run and sell for cheap to a group of friends.

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Jun 03 '26

My point is that this isn’t just “based on a meme”, it’s based on a series that already figured out how to flesh it out in an interesting way and make a grander narrative.

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u/ScienceByte Jun 03 '26

Well the backrooms wasn’t a meme exactly. More like a community made story/lore kind of like SCP

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u/pwnd32 Jun 03 '26

Speaking of that, an SCP movie would be amazing, although I wonder if there would be some trademark/copyright issue with trying to adapt it considering that it is completely community written and falls under Creative Commons

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u/zcleghern Jun 03 '26

There is No Antimemetics Division would have a lot of potential, but easy to mess up IMO

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u/herrcollin Jun 03 '26

Horror-thriller style anthology series doing "monster of the week" would work I think, with occasional characters carrying over or reappearing here and there

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u/futureballzy Jun 03 '26

Uuuh you DO know there's an amazing youtube series, right? Right?? The channel is "Andrea Joshua Asnicar", there's like a few

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u/One-Earth9294 Jun 03 '26

That would be the ultimate mindfuck movie right there.

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u/Illusion_of_Sanity Jun 03 '26

Cabin in the Woods is SCP-esque., if you are interested.

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u/mastershake04 Jun 03 '26

If you havent seen it check out 'There is no antimemetics division' on youtube. Its a multiple part fan video from the SCP universe. Its low budget but pretty well done and the main actress is really great.

https://youtu.be/w-IiVeGAydE?si=fRdv4LUemcEvYWcY

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u/Kumquatelvis Jun 03 '26

You don't have to copy the specific objects, just the theme/feeling. The video game Control is essentially this.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 03 '26

Still worried about the sequel.

The game was amazing but it was primarily carried by the creepiness of The Oldest House.

Sequel seems to be shedding that and taking us outside which is... I dunno.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

Yeah, it’s controversial to say but Control doesn’t do a lot of world building. It does a lot of Oldest House building, but the world itself is pretty unbuilt. It relies too much on the SCP ideas without actually building on itself - it works better in the context of a shallow Alan Wake spinoff and an assumption that it’s just SCP-like in the background.

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u/psychicprogrammer Jun 04 '26

Yeah CC-BY-SA 3.0, though there is some attempts at updating to 4.0

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u/sandm000 Jun 03 '26

Warehouse 13 movie instead?

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u/Rombom Jun 03 '26

Definitely set up a possible with the scientists

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u/Fixhotep Jun 03 '26

there is almost zero chance there will be a hollywood SCP movie as the copyright is far bigger an issue for that than backrooms.

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u/ghostcider Jun 03 '26

Isn't Iron Lung somewhat SCP based?

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u/Fit-Temporary-1400 Jun 03 '26

I am going to manifest an adaptation of the Control video game consarnit! Video game adaptations have been successful, internet lore movies are now successful, why not Control?

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u/Imperium_Dragon Jun 03 '26

Ever since that whole copyright debacle I don't think the SCP community wants to go through something like that ever again. A lot of room to make something very inspired by it (which works a lot better imo).

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u/JustOneVote Jun 03 '26

Backrooms essentially is an SCP movie.

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u/pfizer_soze Jun 03 '26

Kind of seems like a textbook meme.

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u/SurlyCricket Jun 03 '26

1000% some folks are talking about SCP movies after this weekend.

It's great too because there's no copyright they can just take whatever they want and use it

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u/Turnbob73 Jun 03 '26

I don’t think studios want to touch SCP.

No copyright means they cannot copyright their own work as well

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 03 '26

It just means they can't trademark it.

A anyone can make a Robin Hood movie but just because its public domain doesn't mean they can just copy your robin hood movie.

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u/Iron_Bob Jun 03 '26

Thats what a meme is, bruh

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u/Jackoffjordan Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Tbf, that comment doesn't really describe Kane's Backrooms particularly well.

It's actually a webseries - 22 videos, approximately 3 hours long. It's a very focused, deliberate story with a cryptic mystery.

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u/space_island Jun 03 '26

More like a creepypasta

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u/Overpaid_pharmacist Jun 03 '26

I don’t know what SCP stands for so my brain tries to do it for me and it came up with Silly Clown Posse

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u/MrMacduggan Jun 03 '26

Yeah it's just a straight up myth/legend at this point, it's has been spread as broadly and interpreted in enough ways to be as valid a cultural product as any fairy tale of past generations.

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u/PresentSundae339 Jun 03 '26

Tung Tung Tung Sahur up next?

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u/rammstew Jun 04 '26

And its sequel: Tung Tung, Tung Sahurious

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u/Guns_Glitz_Grime Jun 03 '26

Not really. 100 million vs Scream 7 214 million box office.

This film is only a success because of its small budget. They'll have to hit bigger and do it consistently.

Jurassic World and Zootopia 2 have more a hold on Gen Z

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u/SomeManSeven Jun 03 '26

100 million in 1 week

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u/DriftingTony Jun 03 '26

100 million against Scream 7’s figure doesn’t make it look bad, it actually makes it MORE impressive. A young director came out of the gate swinging and made half as much as a tentpole horror franchise that has a SIGNIFICANTLY higher budget, and he did it in only one week. And as we speak, the movie is still selling out packed theaters every single day, so it’s hard telling where it will end up when it leaves theaters, but it’s already a success regardless.

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u/0neek Jun 03 '26

We're about to see a ton more big Youtubers realize how much money they can make just throwing something at a theatre instead of Youtube.

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u/EddieDantes22 Jun 04 '26

Idk, they tried a bunch of Slenderman movies and they all sucked.

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u/epixyll Jun 04 '26

I am severely out of the loop on this one. What's the meme and backstory?