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Backrooms hits $160.2 million domestic after three weekends, passing A Quiet Place Part Two to become North America’s 13th highest-grossing horror film; A24 and Chernin co-financed it for roughly $10 million.
Four-year Paramount pact spins up its first film as Matt and Ross Duffer set an untitled wide theatrical release for Nov. 3, 2028 through Upside Down Pictures; the studio is banking on the brothers for large-scale theatrical work after Netflix.
Sony boards international theatrical distribution for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia origin story; Netflix keeps North American rights and lands the film on streaming after its Feb. 12, 2027 Imax/theatrical run. The split rollout underscores Netflix’s continuing hybrid-release strategy on prestige tentpoles.
Neon paid A$7.1m at Sundance for Leviticus, Adrian Chiarella's gay-exorcism horror pic; the US release lands the day after its Australian bow, with Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen and Mia Wasikowska starring.
Black Harbor launches in Vancouver as a full-service production banner built to court U.S. and international shoots into British Columbia. The team is leveraging BC tax credits and local crews off the back of Backrooms, the $10 million Kane Parsons adaptation that has already pulled in more than $260 million worldwide.
A24 taps Curry Barker for a Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot after Obsession's breakout; sequel chatter around Obsession 2 remains informal while Barker lines up Anything But Ghosts.
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