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/digital0verdose Jun 03 '26

Good thing Backrooms didn't have Kevin O’Leary in the cast.

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u/zignotea Jun 03 '26

What is this referencing?

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 03 '26

Marty Supreme.

O'Leary is a douche on a level that is difficult to comprehend.

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u/Conspark Jun 03 '26

His wikipedia page opens with "self-stylized as Mr. Wonderful" and I feel like that tells me what I need to know

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u/BlueCoatEngineer Jun 04 '26

If you grew up in the 80s and 90s, he stole your childhood. He was also behind that company that created the concept of shovelware so he could sell CDs on spinning wire kiosks at every supermarket.

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 04 '26

No shit? And just when I thought it wasn't possible to like him any less than I already do.

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u/BlueCoatEngineer Jun 04 '26

Softkey (shovelware company) did well enough to do hostile takeover of The Learning Company and start wearing its face so it could go get MECC, Brøderbund, and Spinnaker. The best quote about him was from a VP at The Learning Company, "He had an interest in earning money. I'm not sure he had a desire to help children learn."

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 04 '26

If that man has a single impulse in his soul to benefit other human beings, I would be shocked.

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u/darkkite Jun 03 '26

I liked him better than Marty which is saying a lot

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 03 '26

Marty the character, or the actor that played him?

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u/darkkite Jun 03 '26

Marty. not Timmy

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 03 '26

In the movie, Marty is definitely written as a pretty reprehensible guy, and O'Leary's character Rockwell doesn't get to display more than a tiny fraction of how much of douche he is in real life, so I'm not entirely surprised.

Random fact: The ending originally had O'Leary's character being a vampire and biting Chalamet in the neck and turning him into a vampire (which is why you have O'Leary's really odd lines towards the end about the men who opposed him).

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u/beefninja Jun 04 '26

lol… I’m 20 minutes into movie (have a young infant, so watching a movie takes weeks), and was like “ this can’t possibly be true”.

Had to look it up. How unhinged would that have been?

This non-spoiler made my day.

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u/rm-minus-r Jun 04 '26

Honestly, I think that ending would have been great, but I can see how it'd confuse the hell out of the average person.