Steven Spielberg Praises ‘Obsession’, ‘Backrooms’ Box Office Success: “I Just Applaud Them”

Hollywood’s caller cohort of scary filmmakers person earned nan praise of Steven Spielberg aft a successful fewer weekends astatine nan container office.

At a caller screening of his caller movie Disclosure Day, premiering June 12 successful theaters, nan 3x Oscar victor expressed his amazement astatine seeing Obsession and Backrooms do truthful good successful theaters aft they were made for “very small money.”

“I’m truthful happy for them. I deliberation it’s truthful fantastic,” said Spielberg successful a reddish carpet interview. “I deliberation it’s awesome that they had fundamentally very small money, particularly Obsession had nether $1 million, and nan different movie had possibly 10 aliases nine, and they’re doing truthful well, and I conscionable applaud them. I haven’t seen Backrooms; I americium going to spot it erstwhile each this is over. But I person seen Obsession, and I loved it.”

Premiering May 15 successful theaters, writer/director Curry Barker’s scary breakout Obsession quickly became Focus Features’ highest grossing stateside release, pinch a existent home haul of $151.3M.

Making his directorial debut arsenic A24’s youngest ever astatine 20, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms has already fixed nan indie banner a record opening pinch $81.4M domestic, $118M worldwide. The scary movie based connected his web bid has since go A24’s highest grossing movie stateside and its first to transverse $100M domestic.

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