It's an obsession.
The sensation of independent horror cinema, Obsessioncontinues to maintain a good pace on the billboard, week after week.
In its fifth weekend in theaters, the film by the writer and director, Curry Barkerraised others $34.6 million at the global box officereaching a total of $287.2 million dollars worldwide after five weekends completed.
With this new global total, Obsession officially surpassed the total global collection from another independent horror film phenomenonhe found footage from 1999, The Blair Witch Project, and its $248.6 million dollarsand breaks another record: become the highest-grossing film made with a budget of less than a million dollarswhich Blair Witch held for 27 years.
Obsession had a production cost of $750,000 dollars, while Blair Witch It was filmed at a cost between $35,000 and $60,000, although after post-production and technical adjustments for its theatrical release, its budget rose to approximately $200,000 to $750,000.
Also surpassed the total gross of the acclaimed horror thriller Get Out by Jordan Peelewhich accumulated $259.9 million upon its theatrical release in 2017.
And that's not all.
For the fourth consecutive week, Obsession does the unthinkable: record another increase in its box office receiptsdefying the usual trends of the horror genre ($17.1 million in its first weekend, $23.9 million in its second weekend, $26.4 million in its third weekend, and most recently, $25.6 million in its fourth weekend).
Barker's film became the first movie since E.T. (1982) by Steven Spielberg, in increasing ticket sales in its second and third weekends in theatersoutside of the Christmas season, according to information shared by Focus Features.
It continues to hold up incredibly well at the box office, falling 25% in the United States, and 16% in the international market, compared to its previous weekend.
Its best international market continues to be the United Kingdom and Ireland with $17.7 million. It still has to be released in markets such as Germany, Spain, Japan, and South Korea.
Focus acquired the distribution rights to Obsessionfollowing its screening at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, in a deal valued at $15 million. It's officially the studio's highest-grossing film of all time, and the biggest film acquisition of a film festival.
In addition to a highly effective marketing campaignhe Word of mouth has been extremely positive. to Obsession.
The film centers on a hopeless romantic who breaks the mysterious “Wishing Willow” to win the heart of the girl he likes. He soon gets exactly what he asked for, but discovers that his wishes will come at a sinister cost.
The main cast includes Inside Navarrette (Superman and Lois), Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf), Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial), Megan Lawless (The Girl from Plainville), y Andy Richter (Conan).
Producers are James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, and Roman Varis, with Teashop Productions, Under the Shell, Capstone Pictures. Executive producers include Jason Blum of BlumhouseLeonora Darby, Mark Lane, David Haring y Ruzanna Kegeyan.
Barker's next film project, titled Anything But Ghostsis already filming completed. It is another production with a home at Blumhouse and Spooky Pictures, with Cooper Tomlinson repeating as part of the cast, and set in the same universe of Obsession. Likewise, the filmmaker was recently chosen by A24 as director of a reimagining of the horror franchise The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Barker is one of the members of a new generation of filmmakers emerging from YouTube.
Obsessionavailable in theaters.
Source: https://cine3.com/obsession-supera-taquilla-the-blair-witch-project/
