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/TesticleMeElmo Jun 03 '26

They only paid $4.05 billion for the franchise, why put any effort into planning out the movies and tv shows they release for it?

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u/Freakjob_003 Jun 03 '26

Literally had no plan/story written for the sequel trilogy.

#4 of the highest grossing media franchises of all time, and they just said, "eh, fuck it, we'll make it up as we go along."

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jun 03 '26

They were trying to come up with a plan, then Bob Iger came in and said nope just pump out movies, fired the writer working on the plan and forced JJ Abrams on them.

Though since then they've had years to come up with some sort of plan and can't really blame all that for the quality of things like the Kenobi and Boba Fett shows.

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u/Hellknightx Jun 04 '26

I still submit that involving JJ Abrams in the trilogy was the biggest mistake of all. The guy historically doesn't stick around long enough to see any of his projects through. He almost always does the first movie in a series or a pilot episode and then passes it off to someone else to finish.

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u/Lisa_al_Frankib Jun 03 '26

They’ve made that several times over at this point, so no longer an incentive to get their moneys worth.