{"id":1016723,"date":"2026-06-10T03:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1016723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:47:19","slug":"a24-releases-200-million-movies-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1016723\/","title":{"rendered":"A24 Releases $200 Million Movies Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the time, it looked like Alex Garland\u2019s \u201cCivil War\u201d would be the face of the new A24<\/a>, the one that didn\u2019t pursue potential sale offers and instead raised a big equity investment<\/a> to make films that were more commercial while still adhering to the distributor\u2019s mark of taste, subversiveness, and quality. <\/p>\n

The boutique studio pursued even grander budgets with \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d and stacked casts with big stars, but it\u2019s a $10 million horror movie from a 20-year-old YouTube<\/a> creator that is now heralding A24\u2019s next phase.<\/p>\n

\u201cBackrooms<\/a>,\u201d Kane Parsons\u2019 breakout indie horror smash, in its second weekend reached $213 million globally. Domestically, it added another $25.9 million to hit $135.3 million domestic, but more significantly an additional $50.5 million internationally, making it a true worldwide hit. It opened at #1 in 42 different international territories, it was the best opening for an A24 film<\/a> ever in the UK and 40 other countries, and it\u2019s the first movie in A24\u2019s history to surpass $200 million worldwide. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d got close with $191.2 million, but that was in its lifetime with a Christmas opening and a whole bunch of awards buzz, and \u201cBackrooms\u201d reached that total in two weekends and still has a long way to go. \u201cBackrooms\u201d actually dropped 68 percent in its second weekend domestic, which would be alarming if you\u2019re \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu,\u201d<\/a> but to have opened as high as it did, we imagine A24 isn\u2019t sweating anything about the film\u2019s long term prospects. Something like \u201cObsession\u201d has gotten to a similar level (now $224.7 million global) over a month by actually going up week over week<\/a>, but these movies will likely both end up in the same ballpark even if \u201cObsession\u201d is a unicorn. <\/p>\n

But, yes, A24 releases $200 million movies now. <\/p>\n

And the fact that the distributor did it with an R-rated horror movie rather than one that starred Zendaya and Robert Pattinson or had the budget of 10 \u201cBackrooms\u201d speaks volumes. It\u2019d be easy to highlight a few other A24 titles like \u201cTony,\u201d which is a biopic on Anthony Bourdain<\/a>, or \u201cPrimetime,\u201d which is about Chris Hansen and \u201cTo Catch a Predator,\u201d<\/a> as ones that speak to the type of movie A24 wants to make moving forward and believes could be a commercial hit. A24 clearly sees Olivia Wilde\u2019s \u201cThe Invite\u201d out of Sundance as a potential breakout, given the bidding war for it.<\/p>\n

But a more likely candidate to be the next to cross that $200 million mark is Garland\u2019s \u201cElden Ring\u201d adaptation<\/a>, which is based on the wildly popular video game and should carry a major budget. That\u2019s big IP that A24 doesn\u2019t normally take on, but then \u201cBackrooms\u201d is IP as well<\/a>, just from an unusual source that Hollywood inexplicably hasn\u2019t fully tapped. The studio must also be thinking \u201cBackrooms\u201d sequel or giving Parsons the same amount of runway it has granted Ari Aster to this point. <\/p>\n

All of this is to say that we\u2019re in a different world than the distributor that released \u201cMoonlight\u201d or \u201cThe Witch\u201d to over $25 million domestic and were considered sleeper success stories. \u201cBackrooms\u201d is already in the top 10 highest-grossing movies of the year domestically and could realistically surpass \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d or \u201cHoppers,\u201d proving that A24 is a company capable of delivering a true blockbuster.<\/p>\n

We feel safe predicting that A24 will reach this high bar again. But, given A24\u2019s pedigree, it\u2019s a little harder to identify what that next breakout will look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time, it looked like Alex Garland\u2019s \u201cCivil War\u201d would be the face of the new A24,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1016724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[21211,228614,11543,77,3063,3943,16,15],"class_list":["post-1016723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a24","tag-backrooms","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116723767786768733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}