SUNDAY AM: A24’s Kane Parsons movie Backrooms is at $81.4M domestic, and $118M WW in what looks to be on a global basis this AM, the No. 1 movie. A24 claims that this is a No. 1 record opening for what is the youngest filmmaker ever, Parsons now 20 years old. The previous youngest filmmaker to have a No. 1 opening was Josh Trank at 27 for 2011’s Chronicle ($22M opening) Certainly this is the biggest opening A24 has ever seen in its 14 year history. Big Gen Z audience here for the Chernin Entertainment co-financed/Blumhouse-Atomic Monster/21 Laps/Odd Fellow production
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