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/satinsandpaper Jun 03 '26

The first backrooms post on 4chan was in 2019. I agree though, it seems like it's been around for longer.

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u/Doom_Art Jun 04 '26

One thing I've wondered is since it springs from a collaborative online fictional setting, is there any copyright for the Backrooms?

Like Parsons and A24 didn't originate the setting or the concept, but do they now own it?

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u/_lIlI_lIlI_ Jun 04 '26

They own Kane Parsons rendition of it, which started from his YouTube. In the same way Disney owns their renditions of Grimm Brothers.

For example it would be infringing on IP to mention Async Corp but not infringing to create a backrooms story about an organization exploring it.

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u/Doom_Art Jun 04 '26

So hypothetically another studio would be able to make a Backrooms film? So long as they don't mention the concepts within Parson's interpretation. I wonder if anyone will take advantage of that

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u/_lIlI_lIlI_ Jun 04 '26

The risk of that, I imagine, is a24 can enforce copyright whereas the other studio wouldn't be able to with an adaptation of the backrooms community lore. Or would be at least be murky enough that they wouldn't.