Entities/Title/Backrooms

Backrooms

Title
last seen in coverage 2 days ago
77
Wire items · since Feb 25
7
Deal items
5
Tracked projects
6
Months active
20
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 7 tracked deal items

57% of tracked dealflow (4/7) is book adaptation; 100% of classified deal mediums are film; 71% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
book adaptation 4
public domain adaptation 1
option 1
Reported stage
in development 3
in production 2
greenlit 1
optioned 1
Medium
film 7

Slate · 5 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

In development 2
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Mandalorian And Grogu
Curry Barker · Kane Parsons · Michael Clear
5 Jun 8 ↗
Star Wars
Curry Barker · Kane Parsons
3 Jun 4 ↗
Seeking distribution 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Exit 8
Kane Parsons
completed seeking distribution 3 May 29 ↗
Released & tracking 2
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Obsession
Kane Parsons · Curry Barker · Inde Navarrette
completed seeking distribution 29 Jul 25 ↗
Mandalorian
Curry Barker · Kane Parsons · Michael Clear
8 Jun 26 ↗

Key people · from coveragenames as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design

Kane Parsons
Talent attached
45 items · 5 deals · in 58% of all Backrooms coverage
Curry Barker
Talent attached
16 items · 1 deals · in 21% of all Backrooms coverage
Chiwetel EjioforTalent attached11i · 3d
Renate ReinsveTalent attached10i · 2d
Mark DuplassNamed in coverage7i · 2d
James WanNamed in coverage5i · 1d
Osgood PerkinsNamed in coverage5i · 3d
Shawn LevyNamed in coverage4i · 1d
Finn BennettNamed in coverage3i · 2d
Zach CreggerTalent attached3i · 1d
Will SoodikNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Lukita MaxwellNamed in coverage2i · 2d
Peter CherninNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Inde NavarretteNamed in coverage2i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL BACKROOMS COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 4 tracked titlesgrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

Disclosure Day
latest: “$93M global debut” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Leviticus
latest: “$4.3 million worldwide” (domestic) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

2
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5
APR
25
MAY
29
JUN
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WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 25click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
A24 556
▸ shared record
Kane Parsons 455
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Obsession 362
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Curry Barker 161
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Chiwetel Ejiofor 103
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Blumhouse Productions 100
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Renate Reinsve 92
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Atomic Monster 91
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Deal record · 7 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jul 2 After Backrooms, Hollywood Goes All-In On Siren Head
option @ optioned “low seven figures”
with Warner Bros., Trevor Henderson, Zach Cregger, Brian Duffield, Roy Lee
Cosmic Book News+5 src A+
Jun 28 Exclusive: Backrooms VFX Supervisor Edward J. Douglas on Visualising Kane Parsons' Liminal Horror
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Kane Parsons, Edward J. Douglas, Chiwetel Ejiofor, A24, Osgood Perkins
Phantasmagoria B
Jun 14 ‘Open Door’ YouTube Short to Get Feature Adaptation After ‘Obsession,’ ‘Backrooms’ Success
deal · articleType @ in-development
with Kevin Cate, Rick Kearney, Clinging Vine Films, Unbearable Christmas, Obsession
The Wrap B
May 20 Backrooms: how a horror meme became the architecture of contemporary anxiety
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Kane Parsons, A24, Neon
Domus Web A
May 13 New Teaser For Backrooms Arrives
book-adaptation @ greenlit
with A24, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
SciFiNow A+
May 10 Did You Know Osgood Perkins Produced ‘Backrooms’ and Mentored Kane Parsons?
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Osgood Perkins, Kane Parsons, A24, Atomic Monster, Toronto International Film Festival
Dread Central A
Apr 5 Chiwetel Ejiofor gets stuck in a furniture store's basement in A24's next anticipated horror Backrooms
public-domain-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
Google News (A24)+1 src A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 70

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 77 wire items (Feb 25 → Jul 25) matching Backrooms, deduplicated by URL (4 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.7% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. Amber “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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