A24's Backrooms Opens to $38 Million Friday, Tracking Toward $90 Million Weekend
Kane Parsons' feature debut doesn't just beat A24's opening weekend record — it laps it. Here's what the numbers actually mean for the distributor's business model.
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Kane Parsons' feature debut doesn't just beat A24's opening weekend record — it laps it. Here's what the numbers actually mean for the distributor's business model.
A24 shatters its own opening record while 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' craters 70% in its second weekend — a box office weekend that rewrites the franchise playbook.
TV advertising has more signal than it knows what to do with. The problem isn't the data — it's where the data sits when it's time to actually buy.
Zineuskadi's Talentuaren Gunea returned May 29 with a slate that signals a generation of Basque filmmakers building toward series, genre IP, and international co-production — not graduation-reel glory.
As TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube rewire feeds around entertainment logic, marketers are abandoning the interruption model and building content operations that look a lot like studios.
The actor's warning that 'there are no emergency brakes' isn't just a tease — it's a signal about where prestige satire is placing its bets in a crowded streaming landscape.
The A24/Chernin horror film delivers the highest opening weekend ever for an original debut-director film. The internet-born IP just became a theatrical business case study.
The theatrical debut of Disney's flagship Star Wars property carries cinematic DNA from John Woo and William Friedkin — and that's a deliberate business signal, not just a creative flex.
Kane Parsons becomes the youngest filmmaker to open a No. 1 movie globally as A24 posts its biggest debut ever — and Focus Features quietly has a monster weekend of its own.
Amazon MGM hosted 2,500 attendees for the conference's most ambitious edition yet. The enthusiasm was real. So was the unresolved tension over jobs, rights, and who actually benefits.
Three films at very different budget tiers are rewriting expectations for what theatrical can still do in 2026.
The A24 horror star explains why she avoided Kane Parsons's original web series. The decision reveals something real about how IP travels from internet subculture to studio release.