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Netflix locks the Holly Jackson adaptation for a third and final four-episode season; Season 3 has wrapped and is set for 2027, with Moonage Pictures co-producing and BBC/ZDFneo handling key territory splits.
Obsession has crossed $224M worldwide and $150M domestic, overtaking Fahrenheit 9/11 as the highest-grossing film ever acquired at a festival. The $1M horror breakout is now one of only a handful of genre titles to clear $200M domestic and still has several overseas markets left to open.
Backrooms has cleared $200 million worldwide after a $25.9 million second frame; the A24 horror breakout opened to $81 million domestic and $118 million global, now the studio’s biggest title ever.
A24’s Backrooms is now the company’s highest-grossing title at $212M worldwide, while Focus’s Obsession crossed $200M on a sub-$1M acquisition; Paramount/Miramax’s Scary Movie reboot opened to $55M domestic and $105M global, reinforcing that late-’90s and early-2000s IP is the current theatrical sweet spot.
WME signs French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček off Infested and Evil Dead Burn; the agency will rep him in all areas as he rides a festival breakout and a July 10 Warner Bros. franchise launch.
Paramount’s 'Scary Movie' reboot opens to £4.1 million in the U.K. and Ireland; A24’s 'Backrooms' climbs to £11.6 million, Universal’s 'Obsession' to £13.8 million, and Spielberg’s 'Disclosure Day' is set for a 300-plus-location launch.
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