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A24’s 'Backrooms' is tracking to a $40 million to $50 million opening on a $10 million budget, which would make it the studio’s biggest debut; the wide theatrical launch in 3,400 North American venues keeps horror’s box-office leverage intact.
Season 3 gets the greenlight for cult dark-fantasy anime Dorohedoro; Toho brings back MAPPA and Yuichiro Hayashi after the title’s expanded multi-platform rollout across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu/Disney+ and Viki.
Toho has put 'Dorohedoro' season 3 into production with MAPPA and director Hayashi Yuichiro returning; the dark-fantasy anime’s second season just wrapped in April, with no release window set.
$75M global on a $1M budget after a 39% second-weekend jump; Focus Features and Blumhouse now have a horror breakout in Obsession, with Jason Blum touting the scale and Curry Barker cashing in on a short-film-to-theatrical pipeline.
$17M domestic bow turned into a $24M second weekend for Obsession, a 39% surge that pushes Curry Barker's horror breakout into rare box-office territory and strengthens the case for creator-led micro-budget horror.
Blumhouse is stretching Obsession’s theatrical run after the horror breakout surged to $75M worldwide on a sub-$1M budget, pushing VOD and Peacock out as the title clears the company’s $50M window-extension threshold. Focus Features paid north of $15M for rights after the film’s Fantastic Fest bow, turning a microbudget acquisition into a rare profit machine.
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