3 Box Office Records A24’s Backrooms Could Break, Including Steven Spielberg’s Feat

A24’s Backrooms is projected to set multiple records at the box office, including a rare feat once held by Steven Spielberg.

Set to release on May 29, Backrooms is an upcoming horror movie based on director Kane Parsons‘ YouTube series and the “Backrooms” creepypasta. The cast includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. “After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him,” the logline reads.

What records will be broken by A24’s Backrooms?

Directed by Parsons, Backrooms could become the breakout hit of the summer. Made on an estimated budget of $10 million, Backrooms is projected to open between $25 million and $33 million at the domestic box office. However, it could exceed those projections and get over $40 million based on strong presales. The likely number is probably $31 million, and if that holds, it will break a few box office records.

A24’s domestic opening weekend record

Even if Backrooms opens on the lower side at $26 million, it would still break A24‘s domestic box office record for a three-day opening weekend. Alex Garland’s Civil War has the record at $25.5 million, followed by Marty Supreme ($17.7 million), The Drama ($14.4 million), Hereditary ($13.5 million), and Materialists ($11.3 million).

Marty Supreme, which opened over the Christmas holiday, recorded a four-day total of $28.3 million. Backrooms is poised to exceed that number despite having one less day to do so.

Youngest filmmaker to ever top the domestic box office for an opening weekend

Parsons is certainly going to make history this weekend, barring an unforeseen change. If Backrooms is the No. 1 movie in America after its opening weekend, Parsons will be the youngest director ever to achieve that feat.

Parsons, 20, would break the record previously held by a then 27-year-old Josh Trank, whose Chronicle opened to No. 1 with $22 million in February 2012. Before Trank, 28-year-old Spielberg held the record for 40 years with his landmark blockbuster Jaws, which opened in June 1975.

A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time

Backrooms could become A24’s highest-grossing movie of all time. Marty Supreme currently holds that title, with box office earnings of $96 million domestic and $191 million worldwide. This record is not guaranteed because we don’t know how Backrooms will perform for the rest of the summer.

Worldwide is always harder to break, but the domestic record is well within reach, especially if Backrooms can open between $30 million and $50 million. If Backrooms opens to more than $35 million, it already has a spot in A24’s top 10 highest grossing domestically.

Source: Comingsoon.net