{"id":730592,"date":"2026-05-31T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-weekends-two-biggest-movies-were-both-directed-by-youtubers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:40:16","slug":"this-weekends-two-biggest-movies-were-both-directed-by-youtubers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-weekends-two-biggest-movies-were-both-directed-by-youtubers\/","title":{"rendered":"This weekend\u2019s two biggest movies were both directed by YouTubers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The YouTube<\/a>-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong this weekend.<\/p>\n

Taking the number one spot at the box office is \u201cBackrooms,\u201d a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons\u2019 series of YouTube videos<\/a> featuring eerie found footage of a mysterious office space (drawn from a 4chan thread<\/a>) that defies physics.<\/p>\n

Directed by Parsons, \u201cBackrooms\u201d made $38 million on Friday, and is expected to bring in a total of $80 million to $90 million<\/a> at the domestic box office over this weekend alone. For indie studio A24, that\u2019s its biggest opening by far \u2014 the previous record was held by \u201cCivil War,\u201d which made $25.7 in its first weekend of release.<\/p>\n

The number two film, \u201cObsession,\u201d is pulling off something that\u2019s arguably even more impressive. True, it made a mere $8 million on Friday, with an estimated weekend haul of $28.5 million \u2014 but the movie (about a romantic wish gone nightmarishly wrong) already made more money in its second weekend than its first, and now its third weekend is set to grow another 19 percent.<\/p>\n

For context, most wide release films normally fall between 50 to 70 percent in their second weekend; last year\u2019s \u201cSinners\u201d was considered an extraordinary word-of-mouth success<\/a> because it fell less than 5 percent. Outside of Christmas releases (which have more staying power, thanks to the holidays), growing from weekend to weekend is unheard of \u2014 according to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201cObsession\u201d is the first film since 1982 to grow on both its second and third weekends.<\/p>\n

And like \u201cBackrooms,\u201d \u201cObsession\u201d is a horror movie directed by filmmaker who first made his name on YouTube \u2014 Curry Barker<\/a>, who released the hourlong found footage horror film \u201cMilk & Serial\u201d <\/a>on YouTube in 2024. Barker has already shot his next film and is set to direct a new remake of \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre.<\/p>\n

The two releases follow the surprise success of \u201cIron Lung,\u201d<\/a> a video game<\/a> adaptation released earlier this year. Directed by Mark Fischbach \u2014 better known under his YouTube account name Markiplier \u2014 \u201cIron Lung\u201d grossed nearly $41 million domestically.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times article <\/a>about the recent \u201cYouTube-to-filmmaker boomlet,\u201d Rutgers CInema general<\/a> manager Mark DelVecchio noted that \u201clots of YouTubers have tried to make the leap to mainstream movies<\/a> and come up short.\u201d What sets Parsons, Barker, and Fischbach apart? DelVecchio said that despite their youth (Parsons is 20, Barker is 26), they all have \u201clongevity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, some of them have been making videos for a very long time, and that\u2019s how you develop a loyal audience that will follow you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

By the way, while I haven\u2019t seen \u201cBackrooms\u201d yet (fingers crossed for tomorrow), I have<\/em> seen \u201cObsession.\u201d So I can confirm that it absolutely does not disapp<\/a>oint \u2014 I watched most of the second half with my fingers over my eyes, and I may even have screamed a few times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong this weekend. Taking the number one spot at the box office is \u201cBackrooms,\u201d a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons\u2019 series of YouTube videos featuring eerie found footage of a mysterious office space (drawn from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Directed by Parsons, \u201cBackrooms\u201d made $38 million…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/backrooms.jpeg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161839,158554,161840,151443,117415,49],"class_list":["post-730592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-backrooms","tag-curry-barker","tag-kane-parsons","tag-media-entertainment","tag-obsession","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}