Backrooms: Has YouTube Just Saved Hollywood?
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A great satisfaction not having to tell your story for new every single time, which I think most major celebrities also feel. Hello and welcome to this episode of The Rest Is Entertainment with me, Marina Hyde.
And me, Richard Osman. Good day to everybody. Good day, Marina.
Hello, Richard. How are you?
I'm not too bad. We're going to be talking to Steven Spielberg this week, so we're still looking for questions. If you want to send your questions to therestisentertainment at goalhanger.com, we would love to hear them. We'll put them to Spielberg. But how's your week been?
Not too bad, you. I mean, you know, it's ups and downs.
Too hot. Too hot. I'm going to come out and say it. But... I wish people would tell the truth.
We both saw a brilliant film.
Yes, we did.
And that is one of the things we're going to be talking about in a sort of wider... We are.
We're going to be talking about backrooms and obsession for a number of reasons. We're also going to be talking about what I would say for our podcast and our listeners might be quite a fun story, which is the story of Mobland.
Has Tom Hardy been fired or not fired from mob land?
Cliffhanger.
And we're also going to be talking about the Bell Burden memoir of her marriage breakdown, Strangers, is like an absolutely monster hit. And like all monster hits, it has now got a backlash. We're going to be digging into why.
Yes. Is it salt path or is it more than sea salt path? Essentially that. But now. Back Rooms is a horror movie. It came out this weekend. And we talk a lot about tracking on this show. Hollywood tends to be able to predict how a movie is going to open, what it's going to do. And it's a very cheap movie, this, $10 million. And the tracking first came out and said, this movie is going to make $25 million. And everyone's like, what? Whoa, this is crazy.
On its opening weekend.
And then about two weeks after that, they said, oh, no, hold on. It's not going to make $25 million. We reckon it's going to make $45 million. This super cheap movie, which we're going to talk about, we think it's going to make $45 million. It opened this weekend. It did not make $25 million. It did not make $45 million. It made $81 million, the third biggest opening of the year behind Mario and Michael Jackson. Where has this movie come from?
Who is Kane Parsons and why is he significant in Hollywood?
Why has it been so successful? And what does that mean?
Okay, well, this is an A24 movie. It's actually A24's biggest opening now of all time.
It's going to be their biggest movie by a long time.
Yeah, it's the second biggest horror opening of all time, only after Stephen King's It. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renata Reincevain. It's directed and created by a guy called Kane Parsons. And this is where it gets interesting. This is where it gets interesting. By the way, he's 20. He is not only the youngest director ever to have been given a studio film, so beating people like Brian De Palma or Sam Wells, he is the youngest director ever to have a number one film. He is an unbelievable YouTube native and he was called Kane Pixels on YouTube and he made lots and lots of interesting things, including music.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:58
2
Who is Kane Parsons and why is he significant in Hollywood?
2:58–5:51
3
What controversies surround Tom Hardy's role in Mobland?
5:51–6:44
4
What backlash is Belle Burden facing for her memoir Strangers?
6:44–9:21
5
How did Backrooms achieve box office success against expectations?
9:21–27:42
6
What impact do Gen-Z filmmakers have on the film industry?
27:42–30:45
7
What are the implications of the YouTube-to-cinema pipeline?
30:45–48:11