“A Meme Became A Movie?” - YouTube Creator's 'Backrooms' CRUSHES Disney’s Star Wars Reboot
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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A meme‑born YouTube horror short called “Backrooms” becomes a full‑blown theatrical hit, as 20‑year‑old creator Kane Parsons turns his viral liminal‑space series into a $10 million indie that crushes Disney’s pricey Star Wars reboot at the box office and signals a power shift toward internet‑raised storytellers.
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.0 | Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion |
| 0:07.7 | dollar swings. |
| 0:08.9 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:11.4 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:13.5 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:18.0 | A meme becomes a movie? |
| 0:20.2 | You mean to tell me a meme and a guy makes a video get 7.9 million |
| 0:24.7 | views with doors and what is it called? It's called back. Back rooms. Back rooms. And this thing |
| 0:29.9 | becomes a movie a 20 year old. Directs the movie. Small little budget. And how much did it do opening weekend, Vinnie? |
| 0:37.9 | So, Pat, so obsession. Okay, I'm sorry. Backrooms was made for $10 million. It made, |
| 0:43.7 | I don't have the number. I'm sorry. |
| 0:46.8 | $117 million opening weekend. Opening weekend. That's crazy. Good for him. |
| 0:52.7 | So this weekend, a moody horror movie based on an |
| 0:55.7 | internet meme looks like it could bring in astonishing $60 million at the box office, which |
| 0:59.8 | means it could be Disney's Mandalorian Star Wars. Director Kane Parsons has made stuff on |
| 1:07.0 | YouTube for years, but this was a film for theaters, which made sense. He is 20 years old, the follows of Successive Obsession, which has grossed $74 million |
| 1:14.2 | last two weeks. |
| 1:15.3 | It was made by a 26-year-old Curry Barker, another YouTube veteran making his theatrical debut. |
| 1:20.7 | Those films come after Mark Fishback, better known for his 38 million YouTube fans as Markiplier brought out his Iron Long movie, which he made for a reported 3 million. Okay. So I haven't seen it yet. I was supposed to go watch it with you, but I want to watch a different movie yesterday. What did you guys watch? Okay, so let me tell you what movie we watched. Because Brooklyn came out of the movie. She jumped in my arms and then she was trying to tell me, you heard her character breakdown and the movie breakdown was hilarious. I would gladly tell you. Originally, I wasn't going to say this, but we watched a movie called Sheep Detectives. I'm actually not kidding with you. We watch Sheep Detectives. And yes, I'm proud that I watch this movie. Sheep detectives, that? It's a phenomenal. Starring Elton John, apparently. Phenomenal movie. Believe it or not, it's a phenomenal movie. But what was this the back, back, what is it called? Back rooms? Back rooms. It's so, I'm not giving anything away. No spoiler. I'm not that guy, but it was basically, no. |
| 2:20.0 | Thriller, horror, right? |
| 2:20.9 | The horror, horror film. |
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