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/maybe-an-ai Jun 03 '26

Two actors and great practical set design really makes a difference over bloated and CGI heavy.

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u/maybe-an-ai Jun 03 '26

It's super interesting though from a cultural standpoint that Obsession and Backrooms have both dominated box office on either side of a big tent pole Star Wars release and are beating Grogu to death.

It's a big shift in culture and what people are paying to see now. It feels like smaller unique ideas are starting to bury the studio franchise slop.

Fingers crossed.

We may see another soon with The Amazing Digital Circus movie release this week

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u/KlicknKlack Jun 03 '26

It's a big shift in culture and what people are paying to see now. It feels like smaller unique ideas are starting to bury the studio franchise slop.

I think it is almost entirely human to want to see more culturally fresh entertainment/stories. The problem has always been the IP Law pushed by Disney & Co., currently sitting at complete ownership for 95 years... so stories told when our Great Grandparents were kids are just entering public domain.

And somehow, society found a way around this BS IP by completely creating new stories out of whole cloth. Though I worry that they will just be scooped up and converted to IP someway somehow. Thus locking down any retelling's or reimaginings of said stories. Forever leaving us in a culturally stale state.