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Another $34.1M global frame lifts Focus Features/Blumhouse's Obsession to a $286.5M worldwide cume; the $750K TIFF Midnight pickup now stands as the highest-grossing festival buy ever, ahead of Blair Witch Project.
Limonero Films has picked up worldwide rights to the Finnish true-crime docuseries and will launch sales at Sunny Side of the Doc ahead of the July 27 premiere on YLE. Pre-sales are already in place at NRK, SVT and DR, giving the cult-and-conspiracy series immediate Nordic reach.
Netflix has pulled the plug on The Boroughs after one season despite a 5.6M-view opening weekend and 9.5M first-week lift; the sci-fi series had a season 2 writers room open before audience drop-off and VFX cost concerns ended the run.
Francis Galluppi’s Evil Dead Wrath has wrapped production; the prequel is set in 1972 and lands in theaters April 7, 2028. It’s one of two new Evil Dead films in the pipeline, following Evil Dead Burn from Sébastien Vaniček.
Warner Bros. locks a 15-part dystopian sci-fi thriller property for franchise development, extending the studio's YA IP push into a long-tail adaptation play. The project is in development with no writer or director attached yet.
Backrooms opened to $82 million in North America, with 86% of buyers under 35, reinforcing internet-born horror as a breakout theatrical pipeline. The analysis also folds in Blumhouse’s abandoned Jeff the Killer play, Slender Man’s fading franchise power, and the rise of YouTube-born filmmakers like Jane Schoenbrun and Kyle Edward Ball.
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