A 20-Year-Old Made ‘Backrooms’. Now It’s Making A24 History
The post A 20-Year-Old Made ‘Backrooms’. Now It’s Making A24 History appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. promotional still for kane parson’s ‘backrooms’ imdb Kane Parsons is 20 years old, and as of this weekend he is the director of the biggest opening in A24’s 14-year history. Backrooms, the psychological horror film he adapted from his own viral YouTube series, opened to $81.4 million domestically and $118 million worldwide on its debut weekend of May 29. Against a production budget of $10 million, co-financed by A24 and Chernin Entertainment, the numbers represent one of the most profitable launches of 2026 and the clearest signal yet that the generation of filmmakers who built audiences on YouTube is now dominating theatrical cinema. Forbes‘Backrooms’ Sets A24 Record With $81 Million Opening Weekend—Beating Out ‘Obsession’ And ‘Mandalorian’By Ty Roush What Backrooms Is About Backrooms is rooted in one of the internet’s most enduring pieces of folk horror. The concept originated fr