{"id":4057,"date":"2026-06-01T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/mark-dyuplass-govorit-chto-kassovye-sbory-filmov-oderzhimost-i-zakulise-vselyayut-problesk-nadezhdy-v-raskolotuyu-industriyu\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:10:44","slug":"mark-duplass-says-the-box-office-success-of-obsession-and-behind-the-scenes-films-offers-a-glimmer-of-hope-in-a-fractured-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/mark-dyuplass-govorit-chto-kassovye-sbory-filmov-oderzhimost-i-zakulise-vselyayut-problesk-nadezhdy-v-raskolotuyu-industriyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Duplass says the box office success of Whiplash and Behind the Scenes offers a &quot;glimmer of hope&quot; in a &quot;fractured&quot; industry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star <em>film &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;\u00ab<\/em> Mark Duplass believes the stunning box office success of horror films <em>\u00abObsession\u00bb<\/em> \u0438 <em>\u00abBehind the Scenes\u00bb<\/em> a call to action for the struggling industry.<\/p>\n<p> \u00abI just want to take a moment to acknowledge the glimmer of hope that <em>Obsession<\/em> \u0438 <em>Backrooms<\/em> &quot;They bring to our industry,&quot; he said in a video posted on X. &quot;And I don&#039;t want to exaggerate. I know how difficult and hopeless the circumstances can be. But it&#039;s great.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>More news from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> How Behind the Scenes made a splash at the box office, grossing $118 million in its opening weekend\u2014the best in A24 history.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> World War II drama &quot;Pressure&quot; got off to a strong start, while &quot;Tuner&quot; saw a healthy box office boost amid a strong weekend of independent films \u2014 Specialty Box Office<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Behind the Scenes star Lukita Maxwell has stepped away from the web series Rabbit Hole to give her character a &quot;fresh perspective.&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The Emmy-winning actor continued, &quot;We now know we have democratic access to technology. We were wondering where to put these things because the distribution system is so fragmented. But we have a model of creators honing their craft, putting their work online, building an audience, and now the people with the money will probably notice a little sooner because they see what can be achieved at the box office with these two films, which are performing above expectations.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;So it&#039;s helpful to reiterate what I&#039;ve always believed: we should hone our craft at home with friends,&quot; Duplass concluded. &quot;We should use the tools available to us\u2014our iPhones and Blender\u2014and wield the sword, create something of our own, and when it&#039;s truly good, start publishing it. And there is a way.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> 20-year-old Kane Parsons and 26-year-old Karri Barker, film directors <em>\u00abBehind the Scenes\u00bb<\/em> \u0438 <em>\u00ab&quot;Obsession&quot;\u00bb<\/em> respectively, both began their careers on YouTube, using available tools like the free and open-source 3D computer graphics software Blender to bring their projects to life. (Blender was used in the making of the film <em>\u00ab&quot;Flow&quot;\u00bb<\/em> , who won an Oscar in 2024.)<\/p>\n<p> Since then, he&#039;s broken several records for A24, becoming the company&#039;s youngest director and delivering the biggest opening weekend in the independent distributor\/production company&#039;s history, grossing $118 million worldwide. <em>\u00abObsession\u00bb<\/em> , In its third week of release, Focus Features&#039; highest-grossing film in the U.S., with $104.7 million, is one of the company&#039;s highest-grossing films, with $148 million worldwide. In a rare box office achievement, the film, made for less than $1 million, also saw a 39% increase in box office receipts in its second weekend.<\/p>\n<p> These two films currently hold the top spots at the box office this weekend, ahead of big-budget films like <em>\u00ab&quot;The Mandalorian&quot; from Disney and<\/em> <em>\u00ab&quot;Michael&quot;\u00bb<\/em> from Grogu and Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p> Duplass&#039;s comments came after the actor defended Parsons against false claims and rumors that the film was &quot;ghost-directed&quot; by a more experienced director. For his part, the young director joked, &quot;Actually, it&#039;s all true. They don&#039;t tell you this, but 96% of all the films released in North America and Europe are actually directed by the same person. They call him &#039;The Older Gentleman.&#039; He&#039;s had Hollywood in his grip for decades. When you come into the industry, they force you to sign over all your intellectual property, life rights, and genetic information to him. He loves movies.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> As the industry continues to rage over the continued dominance of the horror genre in cinemas, renowned producers James Wan (producer of the film) <em>\u00ab&quot;Behind the Scenes<\/em> \u00bb&quot;) and Jason Blum (the film&#039;s executive producer) <em>\u00ab&quot;Obsession<\/em> \u00bb) weighed in on the success of these films earlier this weekend during a panel at the Produced by conference. Bloom expressed confidence that we&#039;re in a &quot;pretty damn exciting&quot; moment for cinema, adding that both projects are &quot;bold, weird, and fucking crazy, and to me, they have a &#039;70s feel to them, a new generation of young people making daring films that resonate in theaters in incredible ways.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Warner Bros. Motion Picture co-chairman Michael De Luca also weighed in during his panel yesterday, praising the filmmakers for capturing the zeitgeist. &quot;They&#039;re honing their craft on the internet. Kane worked on <em>Backrooms<\/em> &quot;Five years. These filmmakers engage in dialogue with their audience from the very beginning. Their subscribers are directly involved in every stage of these projects.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinswe and Avan Jogia. <em>\u00abBackrooms\u00bb<\/em> \u2014 is a project based on a creepypasta story about a liminal space that went viral after Reddit and 4chan users began creating myths about an infinite complex with impossibly large, empty rooms. In early 2022, Parsons published a web series of found-footage short films based on this concept, using it as a starting point for a new film adaptation, in which a furniture store owner and his therapist discover a dimension of infinite spaces accessed through a basement.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, <em>the film &quot;Obsession&quot;\u00ab<\/em> , written by Barker, explores the disturbing consequences of Bear&#039;s (Michael Johnston) misguided desire to make his lover (Nikki, played by Inde Navarrete) love him more than anyone else in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Premiere dates for new and returning series on broadcast, streaming, and cable channels in 2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> The Good Girl&#039;s Guide to Murder Soundtrack: All the Songs You&#039;ll Hear in Both Seasons.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films of All Time at the World Box Office<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Subscribe to the Deadline newsletter. 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