In less than ONE WEEK, Backrooms broke the record as the highest grossing film in the history of A24in the national box office.
The audience still cannot resist the horror proposal of Kane Parsons y A24and the movie theaters continue to fill show after show.
the movie surpassed the $100 million dollar mark on Wednesday, June 3, becoming the FIRST A24 production to achieve this, and at the same time, becoming the highest-grossing film in the history of the studio in the national box office, beating Marty Supreme (2025) that reigned with $96 million dollars.
As we mentioned above, Backrooms He achieved it in just 6 days.
A24's 5 highest-grossing films at the domestic box office:
- Backrooms – $100 MDD
- Marty Supreme – $96 MDD
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – $77.2 MDD
- Civil War – $68.7 MDD
- Uncut Gems – $50 MDD
He Global total at the moment is $136 million dollarsa figure that will soon take her to surpass the global total of the Oscar winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once ($148 million), to become A24's second highest-grossing film in the global box office. Marty Supreme currently holds the record as A24's highest-grossing film worldwide, with $191.3 million, although if the pace of Backrooms in theaters, we could have a new number one from the 14-year-old independent film studio.
Last week, 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.
Source: https://cine3.com/backrooms-supera-100mdd-la-mas-taquillera-a24-usa/
