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$100M worldwide opening and the biggest original-horror debut on record push Backrooms into breakout territory; Kane Parsons’ A24 title is already resetting the ceiling for genre box office.
Netflix has locked Devil May Cry for a third and final season, closing out Adi Shankar’s planned trilogy structure; the Capcom adaptation has already logged 21.7 million views for season one and remains one of the streamer’s stronger genre titles.
$100 million domestic in week one makes Backrooms A24’s biggest release; Kane Parsons says he wants to stick with originals even as sequel chatter builds around the web-series-turned-hit.
Fortunate Jack boards FilmNation’s development of the spec; deal drew competitive interest; writer Gabe Delahaye previously sold 'Uncle Wick' to Amazon after a bidding war and has placed originals at Amazon and Apple; repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone and Gregg Gellman.
Anonymous Content signs Markian Tarasiuk after his breakout found-footage horror Hunting Matthew Nichols, a $275K indie that played more than 900 domestic screens, turned a profit before release and generated 30M impressions through an immersive ARG; Tarasiuk is already developing a sequel.
Peacock has ordered The Break-In, a home-invasion mystery adapted from Katherine Faulkner’s novel; Megan Gallagher and Carnival Films reunite after All Her Fault, with Lisa Katz positioning it as another premium character-driven play for the streamer.
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