{"id":1519059,"date":"2026-06-29T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=cf18dc989bc4f7a1f2353a16ba8b4393"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:39:16","slug":"extended-edition-of-backrooms-headed-to-movie-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519059","title":{"rendered":"Extended edition of &#8216;Backrooms&#8217; headed to movie theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ea8f13be20e4ff35d27549f423492c2b.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Chiwetel Ejiofor in 'Backrooms.' (A24)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><em>Backrooms<\/em> hasn't even left movie theaters yet, but a new version of the film will soon be available to watch on the big screen.<\/p><p>A24 is set to release <em>Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition<\/em> to theaters on July 3. The film, which was directed by Kane Parsons, is the studio's highest-grossing in history. It has already brought in over $330 million worldwide after it was produced for only $10 million.<\/p><p>A spokesperson for A24 did not immediately respond to ABC Audio's request for comment.<\/p><p>AMC Theatres shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amctheatres.com\/movies\/backrooms-everything-must-go-edition-w-bonus-footage-84307\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a listing<\/a> for the new version of the film on Monday. According to the exhibitor, this version of the film \"includes 15 minutes of new, theatrically exclusive post-credit bonus footage from Kane Parsons.\" It runs for two hours and six minutes.<\/p><p><em>Backrooms<\/em> opened in theaters on May 29. It brought in more than $81 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. 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 nonfranchise film. He was 20 years old at the time, making Parsons 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 hasn&#8217;t even left movie theaters yet, but a new version of the film will soon be available to watch on the big screen.A24 is set to release Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition to theaters on July 3. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1519062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ea8f13be20e4ff35d27549f423492c2b.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 15:28:01","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\/ea8f13be20e4ff35d27549f423492c2b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519059","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=1519059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519063,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519059\/revisions\/1519063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}