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Backrooms is now A24’s first $200M-plus release worldwide, hitting $212M in just 10 days and turning a roughly $10M horror feature into a runaway profit machine. The film has already reset A24’s box-office ceiling in North America and across more than 50 international territories.
$225M worldwide on a $750K budget; Focus Features paid $15M plus P&A for Curry Barker’s breakout, and sequel talk has not formally started despite Barker’s packed slate, including Anything But Ghosts in post and A24’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre in development.
Blumhouse locks Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity for 2027, with Dylan Clark set to direct Blair Witch and Ian Tuason steering Paranormal Activity; original creators and key cast are EPing to keep both franchises aligned with their roots.
Curry Barker’s Obsession crossed $200M worldwide and is now Focus Features’ biggest title of all time; the horror breakout dropped just 7% in its fourth weekend after Focus bought it out of TIFF for about $15M. Barker shot the film for $750K and is already attached to A24’s Texas Chainsaw reboot.
Netflix’s Scooby-Doo: Origins is in production in Atlanta for a 2027 launch; the live-action reboot puts a real Great Dane at the center of a supernatural murder mystery. Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg run the series for Warner Bros. Television, with Paul Walter Hauser in a secret role and Greg Berlanti among the EPs.
$55M domestic and $105M worldwide gives Scary Movie the biggest opening in franchise history, topping the series' prior $45M record and marking the Wayans brothers' return to the brand.
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