Backrooms, a film based on 20-year-old Kane Parsons’s popular YouTube series of the same name, debuted to $81.4 million at the US and Canada box office this weekend, setting a record for independent distributor
The performance of the $10 million science fiction horror movie — about the discovery of endless, interdimensional maze-like spaces — is roughly on par with the opening of the latest Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu, on Memorial Day weekend.
It’s also the third straight box office success this year from filmmakers who got their start on