‘Obsession’ Crosses $200M Globally to Become Focus’ Top Movie of All Time
Curry Barker's horror hit has legs like only the rarest of movies, declining just 7 percent in its fourth weekend.
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Curry Barker's horror hit has legs like only the rarest of movies, declining just 7 percent in its fourth weekend.
'Backrooms’, now A24’s top-grossing title of all time, and Focus stand-out ’Obsession’ take the No. 3 and No. 4 slots with $25.9 million and $25.6 million, respectively.
This weekend, ’Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ are expected to continue record-breaking box office runs.
The 30th edition of South Korea's premier genre festival, running July 2-12, has unveiled a main competition that also includes the Rupert Grint-starring horror 'Nightborn' and 'NIKO,' starring Tiffany Young.
Filmmaker Natalie Erika James and lead Midori Francis unpack why horror is the perfect genre to address the topics of disordered eating, addiction and obsession: “Horror is amazing at externalizing what's internal.”
"This is just a chronic pattern of contempt for the next wave of cultural production," an industry insider tells The Hollywood Reporter about baseless online conspiracies surrounding the horror hits.
Cinemark said it had its biggest-ever domestic box office last month, and AMC Theatres recorded its highest-attended month of May since 2019.
The horror leaders also discussed the state of the genre during a PGA panel, with Blum saying, “There’s almost this feeling of the ’70s, of a new generation of young people making edgy movies that are connecting in theaters in a crazy way,” referring to 'Obsession' director Curry Barker, 26, and 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons, 20.
YouTube filmmakers are ascendant, with 'Obsession' topping the second weekend of 'Mandalorian and Grogu' and becoming the first film in more than 40 years to increase in both its second and third weekend, outside of Christmas.
Tea Shop's James Harris and Mark Lane are the prime movers behind Curry Barker's hit movie, and they pride themselves on taking a chance on newcomers.
It's no wonder that every studio executive in Hollywood would kill to be in business with Curry Barker, the Gen Z auteur who first gained attention on YouTube. His horror film, costing $750,000 to make, has earned north of $68 million in under two weeks at the domestic box office.
The Lucasfilm/Disney title is the first Star Wars movie to play on the big screen in seven long years in what seems like a galaxy far, far away. The other headline at the Memorial Day box office is the extraordinary hold of You Tuber Curry Barker's 'Obsession,' which is up an unheard of 30 percent over its opening frame.