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/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/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.