The horror sensation of 2026, Obsessionis ready to debut on streaming.
After becoming one of the biggest box office hits of all time, the film written and directed by Curry Barkerstarring Inside Navarrette y Michael Johnston, coming to Peacock on July 17 (via Peacock).
That means an exhibition window of 63 days from its theatrical release to its streaming release.
Barker's project and Focus Features, exceeds $400 million dollars at the global box officeagainst a micro budget of $750,000 dollarsraising more than 500 times the production cost.
In recent weeks, it was crowned the highest-grossing original horror film in history (beating Sinners), and the highest-grossing horror film of 2026.
In addition, it officially surpassed the total global gross of another independent horror film phenomenon, the iconic 1999 found footage, The Blair Witch Projectwhich collected a global box office of $248.6 million, without adjustments for inflation. We add to that, that, Obsession became the highest-grossing film made with a budget of less than a million dollars, a record that Blair Witch held for 27 years.
The indie project's other impressive achievements include posting consecutive box office increases over its first three weekends ($17.1 million in its first weekend, $23.9 million in its second weekend, $26.4 million in its third weekend).
Obsessionwas acquired by Focus Features for $15 million at last year's Toronto Film Festival, becoming a highly profitable phenomenon. It is the studio's highest-grossing film of all time, and the biggest film acquisition for a film festival.
In addition to a highly effective marketing campaignhe Word of mouth has been extremely positive. to Obsession.
The plot centers on a boy's desperate romantic longing for his platonic love, which triggers a sinister spell with the use of the “Willow of a Wish”, with which Niki (Navarrete) becomes irrationally obsessive until she becomes Bear's (Johnston) shadow. A seemingly harmless fantasy that turns into a disturbing nightmare.
In addition to Navarrete and Johnston, the main cast includes 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.
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Source: https://cine3.com/sensacion-de-terror-obsession-debuta-streaming-julio-peacock/
