{"id":570422,"date":"2026-07-05T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:55:09","slug":"box-office-obsession-surpasses-400-million-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570422\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Surpasses $400 Million Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cObsession<\/a>\u201d has notched another major box office milestone, clearing $400 million in global ticket sales. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter two months in theaters, the indie horror breakout has grossed a remarkable $403 million, including $245 million domestically and $157 million overseas. The twisted romantic fantasy, directed by YouTuber Curry Barker, was produced for a mere $750,000 and acquired by Focus Features for $14 million at last year\u2019s Toronto Film Festival, so \u201cObsession\u201d has become a wildly profitable sensation.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost films would taper off (or leave theaters altogether) after eight weekends of release. Not \u201cObsession,\u201d which remained a draw over the July 4th holiday with $5.3 million domestically and $12 million internationally. It\u2019s inching toward the $250 million mark in North America, a threshold that few films (arthouse or not) achieve in these challenging post-pandemic times.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe low-budget thriller opened in May with $17 million in North America, a very encouraging start for an original film. Then something remarkable happened:\u00a0Ticket sales continued to rise, resulting in four\u00a0consecutive weekends that were larger than\u00a0its\u00a0debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPositive word-of-mouth and enthusiastic Gen Z audiences have fueled the turnout for \u201cObsession,\u201d which follows a hopeless romantic named Bear (Michael Johnston) who makes a Faustian bargain to win the heart of his crush, Nikki (Inde Navarrette). \u201cObsession\u201d and A24\u2019s sleeper success \u201cBackrooms<\/a>,\u201d another buzzy horror film, upended conventional wisdom that younger people weren\u2019t all that interested in the big screen. It turns out, the TikTok generation wants to go to the movies, too. \u201cBackrooms,\u201d directed by YouTuber Kane Parsons, also caught fire at the box office with a stellar $347 million worldwide to date.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a new generation of moviegoers who are declaring a\u00a0very specific taste for horror movies that is quite left-of-center,\u201d Jason Blum, who produced \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d through his company Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, told Variety earlier this summer<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of concern about theatrical, and this is a real new growth area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cObsession\u201d has notched another major box office milestone, clearing $400 million in global ticket sales. After two months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[186311,18,117,19,17,327,34433,216080],"class_list":["post-570422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-backrooms","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-summer-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570422","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=570422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}