{"id":34895,"date":"2026-05-30T20:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/34895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:46:22","slug":"box-office-backrooms-scares-up-38-million-breaks-a24-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/34895\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Backrooms’ Scares Up $38 Million, Breaks A24 Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKane Parsons\u2019 \u201cBackrooms<\/a>\u201d has already shattered the record for A24<\/a>\u2019s best opening weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted from Parsons\u2019 viral YouTube series, \u201cBackrooms\u201d earned $38 million domestic on Friday from 3,442 theaters, and is projected to gross $85 million to $90 million through the weekend. That\u2019s more than triple the previous record holder, Alex Garland\u2019s thriller \u201cCivil War,\u201d which earned $25.5 million in 2024 to claim the title of A24\u2019s best debut.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBackrooms\u201d follows a small-town furniture store owner who discovers a portal to an otherworldly dimension in his showroom. Cast members include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass. James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins serve as producers. Chernin Entertainment was the co-studio and co-financier of \u201cBackrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis weekend\u2019s other newcomers include Nate Bargatze\u2019s family comedy, \u201cThe Breadwinner,\u201d and Focus Features\u2019 war drama, \u201cPressure.\u201d \u201cThe Breadwinner\u201d fared the best of the two, grossing $2.75 million on Friday from 3,525 North American theaters for a fifth-place finish. By Sunday, it should make $7.5 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tTriStar Pictures\u2019 \u201cThe Breadwinner\u201d follows Bargatze as a dad who is forced to take charge of his chaotic household when his wife leaves on a month long buiness trip. Other cast members include Mandy Moore, Stella Grace Fitzgerald, Birdie Borria, Charlotte Ann Tucker, Colin Jost and Zach Cherry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPressure\u201d landed at No. 6 on Friday with $2.46 million domestic from 1,829 screens. It\u2019s expected to pull in $5.4 million by the end of the weekend. The WWII thriller stars Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower, who must decide whether or not to launch D-Day in the face of brutal conditions. Other cast members include Andrew Scott, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis and Tamsin Topolski.<\/p>\n

\n\tFriday\u2019s silver medal went to Curry Barker\u2019s \u201cObsession<\/a>,\u201d which made $8.1 million on its third Friday in theaters. After a stellar $28 million over Memorial Day, the indie horror is expected to make another $28 million by Sunday. That\u2019s a 19% uptick from the $22 million it earned over last weekend\u2019s three-day frame.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d took third with just $6.5 million on its second Friday in North American cinemas, an 70% drop from its opening day. While initial projections saw the Lucasfilm western grossing $40 million by Sunday, that number now looks closer to $25 million, according to rival estimates. That figure would push the film\u2019s domestic total to $136 million through two weekends.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate\u2019s \u201cMichael\u201d finished in fourth, adding $3.5 on Friday. It should collect $12.7 million by Sunday, which would bring its domestic earnings to $340 million in six weekends of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kane Parsons\u2019 \u201cBackrooms\u201d has already shattered the record for A24\u2019s best opening weekend. Adapted from Parsons\u2019 viral YouTube…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[9276,20079,8,9,18151,7],"class_list":["post-34895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-a24","tag-backrooms","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-obsession","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116665488844168542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}