Entities/Person/Kane Parsons

Kane Parsons

Person
last seen in coverage Aug 16
98
Wire items · since Feb 24
22
Deal items
2
Tracked projects
7
Months active
37
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 22 tracked deal items

32% of tracked dealflow (7/22) is book adaptation; 86% of classified deal mediums are film; 63% 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 7
public domain adaptation 6
greenlight 5
option 2
short story adaptation 1
Reported stage
greenlit 7
in production 5
in development 5
completed seeking distribution 2
Medium
film 19
industry 2
tv limited series 1

Slate · 2 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

Released & tracking 2
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Backrooms
Chiwetel Ejiofor · Renate Reinsve · Mark Duplass
 greenlight short story adaptation completed seeking distribution 84 Aug 14
Obsession
Curry Barker · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Renate Reinsve
 greenlight completed seeking distribution 21 Aug 14

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

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Talent attached
44 items · 16 deals · in 45% of all Kane Parsons coverage
Renate Reinsve
Talent attached
43 items · 15 deals · in 44% of all Kane Parsons coverage
Mark Duplass
Named in coverage
25 items · 9 deals · in 26% of all Kane Parsons coverage
Curry Barker
Talent attached
25 items · 3 deals · in 26% of all Kane Parsons coverage
Finn Bennett
Named in coverage
15 items · 7 deals · in 15% of all Kane Parsons coverage
James WanTalent attached14i · 8d
Lukita MaxwellNamed in coverage13i · 7d
Will SoodikTalent attached12i · 7d
Osgood PerkinsTalent attached10i · 5d
Shawn LevyTalent attached8i · 3d
MarkiplierNamed in coverage7i · 2d
Avan JogiaNamed in coverage5i · 4d
Michael ClearNamed in coverage4i · 2d
Peter CherninTalent attached3i · 1d
Roberto PatinoNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Danny PhilippouNamed in coverage2i · 1d
Michael PhilippouNamed in coverage2i · 1d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL KANE PARSONS COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 3 tracked titlesgrosses as reported — amber badge = released by another studio

Backrooms
“$212.6M worldwide”Jun 14 · worldwide→“$160.2 million”Jun 16 · domestic→“$81.4M domestic / $118M worldwide”Jun 19 · domestic→“$175.2 million domestic”Jun 22 · domestic→“more than $307 million worldwide”Jun 28 · worldwide→“$330 million worldwide”Jun 29 · worldwide→“approximately $357 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide→“more than $212 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide→“$357 million worldwide”Jul 8 · worldwide→“well over $375M worldwide”Jul 15 · worldwide
latest: “well over $375M worldwide” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Obsession
“$260 million worldwide”Jun 17 · worldwide→“approximately $403 million globally”Jul 6 · worldwide
latest: “approximately $403 million globally” (worldwide) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure
Leviticus
“$4.3 million worldwide”Jun 26 · domestic
latest: “$4.3 million worldwide” (domestic) as reported in tracked coverage — not a comparable figure

Activity · by month

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APR
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MAY
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JUN
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JUL
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WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 24click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
A24CO 8322
▸ shared record
BackroomsTITLE 465
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Chiwetel EjioforPERSON 4416
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Renate ReinsvePERSON 4315
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Mark DuplassPERSON 259
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Curry BarkerPERSON 253
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ObsessionTITLE 200
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BlumhouseCO 160
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Deal record · 22 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Jul 17 21-Year-Old 'Backrooms' Director Reportedly Being Eyed for A24 Deal Worth $65 Million
SELLER Deal “$65 million”
with A24, Warner Bros., NBCUniversal Entertainment +4
 Complex+2 src A+
Jul 15 ‘Backrooms’ & ‘Longlegs’ Producer Chris Ferguson & His Oddfellows Ink First Look Deal With Warner Bros.
Deal
with Warner Bros., Oddfellows, Chris Ferguson +5
 Deadline+3 src A
Jun 28 Exclusive: Backrooms VFX Supervisor Edward J. Douglas on Visualising Kane Parsons' Liminal Horror
TALENT book-adaptation @ in-production
with Edward J. Douglas, Chiwetel Ejiofor, A24 +5
 Phantasmagoria B
May 20 Backrooms: how a horror meme became the architecture of contemporary anxiety
book-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Backrooms, Neon
 Domus Web A
May 15 Kane Parsons is 20. Here's how he made A24’s biggest summer movie, the spooky 'Backrooms'
book-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +1
 Atomic Monster A
May 15 How ‘Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker Became Hollywood’s Next Horror Sweetheart
greenlight @ in-development
with Curry Barker, Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette +5
 The Wrap A
May 13 New Teaser For Backrooms Arrives
book-adaptation @ greenlit
with A24, Backrooms, Chiwetel Ejiofor +5
 SciFiNow A+
May 12 Your Next Favorite Horror Director Just Might Be a YouTuber
option @ in-development
with Kyle Edward Ball, Markiplier, Danny Philippou +5
 Dread Central A
May 10 Did You Know Osgood Perkins Produced ‘Backrooms’ and Mentored Kane Parsons?
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Osgood Perkins, A24, Atomic Monster +2
 Dread Central A
May 7 5 Things Kane Parsons Learned Making 'Backrooms' for A24
greenlight @ greenlit
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +1
 No Film School A
May 7 Horror! A24’s Youngest Director Ever Started on YouTube
greenlight / book-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Atomic Monster, James Wan +5
 The Ankler A+
Apr 25 Backrooms Has Officially Wrapped According To A24
public-domain-adaptation @ completed-seeking-distribution
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +3
 Bleeding Cool+1 src A+
Apr 8 Olivia Wilde’s ‘The Invite’ gets an awkward, funny trailer
public-domain-adaptation @ greenlit
with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass +5
 Google News (A24)+3 src 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, Backrooms, Chiwetel Ejiofor +4
 Google News (A24)+1 src A+
Apr 4 Backrooms Trailer Breakdown: A24 Turns Internet Horror Into Cinema
public-domain-adaptation
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +1
 Google News (A24)+1 src A+
Apr 2 ‘Backrooms’ Already Looks Like the Surprise Hit of the Summer
greenlight @ in-production
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +5
 Google News (A24)+2 src A+
Mar 31 The landscape of horror is redefined in ominous teaser for A24’s Backrooms
public-domain-adaptation @ in-production
with A24, Will Soodik, James Wan +3
 Google News (A24)+1 src A+
Mar 7 A24 Horror Movie ‘Backrooms,’ Adapting Kane Parsons’ YouTube Series, Gets Ominous First Trailer
option @ greenlit
with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass +5
 Atomic Monster+1 src A+
Mar 5 A24 Releases Teaser For Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms”
book-adaptation @ greenlit
with A24, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve +5
 Google News (A24)+5 src A+
Mar 5 So…What Exactly Are the Backrooms?: An Explainer
public-domain-adaptation @ greenlit
with Will Soodik, A24, tjxz_z +2
 Dread Central+1 src A+
Feb 25 A24’s Backrooms Translates Internet Liminal Horror to Cinema
short-story-adaptation @ in-production
with A24, Renate Reinsve, Chiwetel Ejiofor
 Google News (A24)+32 src A+
Feb 24 ‘Backrooms’ Movie Teaser Trailer – A24 Horror Film in Theaters May 2026
greenlight @ greenlit
with A24, James Wan, Atomic Monster +5
 Bloody Disgusting+14 src A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 76

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 98 wire items (Feb 24 → Aug 16) matching Kane Parsons, deduplicated by URL (5 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.9% 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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