{"id":1512198,"date":"2026-06-03T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=226bce2d6c9c0e3c64c6a8fd8195aa4b"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:20:31","slug":"backrooms-crosses-100-million-becomes-highest-grossing-a24-film-at-domestic-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512198","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Backrooms&#8217; crosses $100 million, becomes highest-grossing A24 film at domestic box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c1b118256474745a3f9bf89490106091.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Chiwetel Ejiofor in 'Backrooms.' (A24)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><em>Backrooms<\/em> is now the highest-grossing A24 film at the domestic box office.<\/p><p>The Kane Parsons-directed film crossed $100 million in the North American box office on Wednesday, A24 confirmed to ABC Audio.<\/p><p>This makes it the studio's first film to reach such an achievement. It surpassed the Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet film <em>Marty Supreme<\/em>'s domestic total of $96 million in only six days.<\/p><p>According to the studio, <em>Backrooms'<\/em> global box office number stands at $144 million as of Wednesday. This means <em>Backrooms<\/em> is close to surpassing the best picture Oscar-winning <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/em>'s worldwide total of $148 million to become A24's second highest grossing movie. <em>Marty Supreme<\/em> is currently A24's highest grossing movie worldwide with a total of $191.3 million.<\/p><p><em>Backrooms<\/em> opened in theaters on May 29. It brought in more than $81 million at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Backrooms-(2026)#box-office\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">domestic box office<\/a> in its opening weekend, off a $10 million budget. This made it the biggest debut in history for an original horror film, as well as the biggest debut for a first-time filmmaker on a non-franchise film. At 20 years old, Parsons is the youngest director to have a #1 film at the box office.<\/p><p>The horror film is based on Parsons\u2019 popular YouTube series. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve as two people who enter a secret doorway into a maze of seemingly endless rooms.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiwetel Ejiofor in &#8216;Backrooms.&#8217; (A24)Backrooms is now the highest-grossing A24 film at the domestic box office.The Kane Parsons-directed film crossed $100 million in the North American box office on Wednesday, A24 confirmed to ABC Audio.This makes it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1512201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c1b118256474745a3f9bf89490106091.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 20:02:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c1b118256474745a3f9bf89490106091.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512202,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512198\/revisions\/1512202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}