{"id":848942,"date":"2026-06-06T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/848942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:32:16","slug":"box-office-backrooms-becoming-a24s-highest-ever-at-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/848942\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#8216;Backrooms&#8217; Becoming A24&#8217;s Highest Ever at Global Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>In less than a year\u2019s time, A24 has beat its own records twice: Kane Parsons\u2019 viral-born <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/backrooms\/\" id=\"auto-tag_backrooms\" data-tag=\"backrooms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backrooms<\/a><\/strong> will become the New York studio\u2019s highest grossing movie ever this weekend, if not by Monday, overtaking the $191.2M global haul previously racked up by the Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marty-supreme\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marty-supreme\" data-tag=\"marty-supreme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Supreme<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnd that\u2019s even with a steep drop this weekend for Backrooms in North America, estimated at -68% with a second frame of <strong>$25.7M<\/strong>. Domestic cume by tomorrow is expected to be <strong>$134.8M<\/strong>. The running foreign cume as of yesterday stood at<strong> $50.3M <\/strong>(with global expected to be north of <strong>$185M <\/strong>by EOD Sunday). Again, that steep drop is due to the fact that Backrooms is a very fan-front loaded IP, with 81% of the second weekend audience still under 35. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBackrooms accomplishes this record in its first ten-days at the box office (if not 11). It took the Josh Safdie, 9x Oscar nominated Marty Supreme 53 days to unseat A24\u2019s previous longtime top grossing movie, their multi-Oscar winning Everything Everywhere All at Once ($147.9M WW).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we told you Wednesday, Backrooms became A24\u2019s highest grossing movie at the domestic box office, overtaking the 9x Oscar nominated, Josh Safdie directed Marty Supreme ($96M) in its first six days of release. Again, this is a phenomenal achievement for A24: Backrooms cost under $10M, co-financed with Chernin Entertainment, with a domestic P&amp;A in the teen millions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBackrooms stars Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve and was also produced by Blumhouse Atomic Monster, 21 Laps and Phobos. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLots of champagne popping around town with other studios seeing record results at the box office this summer: Lionsgate\u2019s Michael will cross $888M worldwide this weekend, becoming that studio\u2019s highest grossing title in its history. Also, Focus Features\u2019 Obsession with more than $151M by tomorrow, is already that label\u2019s top grossing stateside, and is bound to outstrip their pure Focus label top global grossing release ever, Downton Abbey which ended its run at $194.6M WW. (Note, Universal\u2019s classic label predecessor, USA Films, counts Traffic as its top grossing movie at $207.5M WW. It would not be shocking if Obsession passes that threshold ultimately). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In less than a year\u2019s time, A24 has beat its own records twice: Kane Parsons\u2019 viral-born Backrooms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":848943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[310044,171,84736,53,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-848942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-backrooms","tag-entertainment","tag-marty-supreme","tag-movies","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116704362368115351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}