'Backrooms' by Kane Parsons and A24 surpasses $200M at the global box office

A24 has a new number one worldwide.

With ten days of exhibition in movie theaters completed, Backrooms officially becomes the A24 highest grossing movie at the global box officeas well as the studio's first film to surpass $200 million dollars in ticket sales in its fourteen years of history.

The terror proposal of Kane Parsons collect $212 million dollars in the global box officeincluding $135 million domestically, and $77 million at the international box office (57 markets). The previous global record holder for A24 was Marty Supreme (2025) with $191 million dollars.

Latin America leads the international box office with $24.2 million, making Backrooms in A24's highest-grossing film in the region. In Australia and New Zealand, the film outperformed Marty Supreme and became A24's highest grosser with $7.9 million.

In its first week in theaters, Backrooms had already broken the record as A24's highest-grossing film at the national box office, also beating Marty Supreme.

A24's 9 highest-grossing films at the global box office:

1. Backrooms(2026) – $212 MDD
2. Marty Supreme(2025) – $191 MDD
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022) – $147 MDD
4. The Drama (2026) – $128 MDD
5. Civil War(2024) – $127 MDD
6. Materialists (2025) – $107MDD
7. Talk to Me (2022) – $92MDD
8. Hereditary (2018) – $90MDD
9. Lady Bird (2017) – $79MDD

In its theatrical release, Backrooms surpassed all projections for its release, with a domestic box office launch of $81 million, a record number as the best premiere in the history of A24and made Parsons the youngest filmmaker (20 years old) to achieve a number 1 opening at the box office. In the international box office it grossed $37 million, for a global premiere of $118 million.

The project had a production cost of $10 million, undoubtedly projecting to be one of the most profitable films at the box office.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT BACKROOMS?

The film adapts to the cinema the viral Internet creepypasta phenomenon of Parsons himself, who, by the way, debuts as a feature film director, and at barely 20 years old, becomes the youngest director of an A24 project. Parsons is also one of the members of a new generation of filmmakers emerging from YouTube.

With script Will Soodik (Ash vs Evil Dead, Westworld, Homeland), Backrooms It is set in the 90s, and follow Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a divorced man, a failed architect, frustrated and resentful of life, who works as the owner of a cheap furniture store. Clark goes to therapy with Dr. Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), to whom he talks about how his wife kicked him out of the house, and now he lives in the furniture store.

One night, the place experiences a lighting problem that takes Clark to the floor below where he will try to fix the problem, however, on one of the walls he notices a light that makes him approach and when he touches the wall, He finds a strange hidden door that he can pass through, which leads him to another dimension with a chilling atmosphere beyond reality.

Later, Dr. Mary will also enter this dimension in search of Clark, and two other young furniture workers (played by Lukita Maxwell y Find Bennett).

Here you can read our three-star review of Backrooms.

They produce A24, Atomic Monster of James Wan, 21 Laps Entertainment of Shawn Levyy Chernin Entertainment. A24 and Chernin Entertainment are also co-financiers.

James Wan, Michael Clear, and Shawn Levy are producing alongside Robert Patino, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, and Chris Ferguson. Executive producers are Judson Scott, Alayna Glasthal, and Chris White.