{"id":526616,"date":"2026-06-09T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/526616\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:52:14","slug":"box-office-obsession-beats-scary-movie-monday-will-soon-top-blair-witch-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/526616\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Beats ‘Scary Movie’ Monday; Will Soon Top ‘Blair Witch Project’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Obsession<\/a><\/strong> craze continues with Focus Features<\/a>\u2018 highest grossing movie ever leading Monday with $4.2M<\/strong> in its fourth week, ahead of Paramount and Miramax\u2019s No. 1 weekend opener, Scary Movie<\/strong>, which wasn\u2019t far behind with $4.1M<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\n\tObsession\u2018s domestic cume stands at $156.1M<\/strong> with a global haul north of $229.3M<\/strong>. Scary Movie through four days is $58.4M<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s highest grossing movie of all-time, Backrooms,<\/strong> took third yesterday with $3.2M<\/strong> (running cume of $138M) with Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Masters of the Universe <\/strong>in fourth with $2.1M<\/strong> (running cume of $31.6M<\/strong>). <\/p>\n

\n\tWe hear that Game 3 of the NBA finals between the Knicks and the Spurs sank pics\u2019 ticket sales in the NYC market by as much as 60% to 70% for some off their Sunday results. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut back to Obsession, the weekend holds for this horror romance are unprecedented. Focus\u2019 approach with rolling the movie out has been old school, ala theatrical releases in the 1980s. They didn\u2019t go uber wide in weekend one at 4,000 theaters, rather, 2,615 sites during the pic\u2019s opening weekend. There are smaller markets which are still discovering the film, with the current theater count at 2,900. We\u2019re also getting reports of Rocky Horror Picture Show type vibe with the Curry Barker directed movie spurring audiences to shout back at the screen. Currently, Obsession is pacing 16% ahead of Jordan Peele\u2019s Oscar winner Get Out, another Blumhouse production by the way, which ended its domestic run at $176M. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTHE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, Heather Donahue, 1999. \u00a9 Artisan Entertainment\/courtesy Everett Collection (image upgraded to 17.5 x 12 in)<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you, Obsession became Focus Features\u2019 highest grossing pic at the global box office this past weekend, the pic\u2019s cume currently well north of $229.3M<\/strong>. Now, there\u2019s an incorrect narrative out there by some outlets that Obsession is the biggest film festival acquisition ever at the global box office, beating IFC\/Lionsgate\/Miramax\u2019s Fahrenheit 9\/11 ($222.4M). Focus Features picked up Obsession out of TIFF as we first told you for $15M+ (North America and a bulk of foreign). When it comes to uber successful movies at the box office that were picked up at a film festival, that list is rather short (few have seen north of $100M worldwide). However, it\u2019s Blair Witch Project that Obsession has to beat, and that\u2019s definitely within range with that 1999 Artisan acquisition finaling at $248.6M<\/strong> around the globe. That could even happen this week. Artisan acquired Blair Witch Project out of Sundance for north of $1M with reports out that time believing the distributor was out of their mind. <\/a>Fahrenheit 9\/11 when you get down to the nitty gritty wasn\u2019t a bidding war title when it won the Palme D\u2019Or at Cannes in 2004. The Weinsteins (who financed the pic via Miramax) were pressured by Disney to re-acquire the controversial doc and ultimately they distributed it via a partnership with Lionsgate and IFC Films<\/a> (aka the Fellowship Adventure Group), which also handled their Kevin Smith hot potato movie Dogma. Obsession was originally made for $750K completely bankrolled by the Christian Mercuri led Capstone <\/p>\n

\n\tGet excited: Obsession is within close distance of freaking out Disney\/Lucasfilm\u2019s Mandalorian and Grogu, that pic currently with a running North American total of $156.8M. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Obsession craze continues with Focus Features\u2018 highest grossing movie ever leading Monday with $4.2M in its fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,59479,19,17,327,34433],"class_list":["post-526616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-obsession"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116721428012626581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}