Entities/Title/Backrooms

Backrooms

Title
last seen in coverage Oct 13
114
Wire items · since Feb 25
9
Deal items
6
Tracked projects
9
Months active
32
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 9 tracked deal items

33% of tracked dealflow (3/9) is book adaptation; 100% of classified deal mediums are film; 78% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
book adaptation 3
public domain adaptation 1
option 1
Reported stage
in development 5
in production 2
greenlit 1
optioned 1
Medium
film 9

Slate · 6 projects from coverage

Grouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred.

Seeking distribution 1
Exit 8Kane Parsons 3 itemsMay 29
Released & tracking 5
ObsessionKane Parsons · Curry Barker · James Wan @ completed seeking distribution50 itemsOct 13 Scary MovieSteven Spielberg · Eli Roth · Kane Parsons 5 itemsJun 14 MandalorianCurry Barker · Kane Parsons 4 itemsJun 26 MastersCurry Barker · Kane Parsons · Steven Spielberg 3 itemsJun 14 Other MommyRob Savage · Jason Blum · James Wan 3 itemsOct 8

Key people · from coverage

Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.

Kane Parsons
Talent attached
54 items · 4 deals · in 47% of all Backrooms coverage
Curry BarkerTalent attached17i · 1d
Chiwetel EjioforTalent attached14i · 3d
James WanNamed in coverage12i · 1d
Renate ReinsveTalent attached12i · 2d
Mark DuplassNamed in coverage7i · 2d
Jason BlumNamed in coverage7i · 1d
Osgood PerkinsNamed in coverage6i · 3d
Zach CreggerTalent attached6i · 3d
Shawn LevyNamed in coverage4i · 1d
Finn BennettNamed in coverage3i · 2d
MarkiplierNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Steven SpielbergNamed in coverage3i · 1d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL BACKROOMS COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Box office in coverage orbit · 4 tracked titles

Grosses as reported — “via” badge = released by another studio.

Backrooms
6 reported figures — view track
“$212.6M worldwide”Jun 14 · worldwide→“$175.2 million domestic”Jun 22 · domestic→“$85 million to $90 million through the w”Jun 28 · domestic→“$330 million worldwide”Jul 2 · worldwide→“$400 million-plus worldwide”Sep 24 · worldwide→“$364 million worldwide”Sep 26 · worldwide
latest: “$364 million worldwide” (worldwide) as reported — not a comparable figure
Obsession
5 reported figures — view track
“$260 million worldwide”Jun 17 · worldwide→“$305.1 million worldwide”Jun 22 · worldwide→“$300M WW”Jun 26 · worldwide→“approximately $403 million globally”Jul 6 · worldwide→“$520M global”Sep 27 · U.S.
latest: “$520M global” (U.S.) as reported — not a comparable figure
Disclosure Day
“$93M global debut”Jun 14 · worldwide
latest: “$93M global debut” (worldwide) as reported — not a comparable figure
Leviticus
“$4.3 million worldwide”Jun 26 · domestic
latest: “$4.3 million worldwide” (domestic) as reported — not a comparable figure

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Works with · top 8 of 24

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CounterpartyItemsDeals
A24CO 777
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ObsessionTITLE 582
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Kane ParsonsPERSON 544
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UniversalCO 182
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Focus FeaturesCO 170
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Curry BarkerPERSON 161
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Chiwetel EjioforPERSON 133
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James WanPERSON 121
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Deal record · 9 entries

Amounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps.

Oct 13 Zach Cregger's Mysterious New Sci-Fi Thriller Officially Gets a Promising Update
Deal @ in-development
with Warner Bros. Pictures, Zach Cregger, Brian Duffield +3
 Polygon.com+1 src B
Sep 13 A24 to Follow 'Backrooms' with 'V/H/S: SCP' Creepypasta Adaptation
Deal @ in-development
with A24, Image Nation Studios, Spooky Pictures +5
 Phantasmagoria+2 src A+
Aug 12 ‘Jeff the Killer’ the Next Creepypasta to Come to Life
Deal @ in-development
with Tongal, Savanah Moss, Jeff the Killer +3
 Dread Central+5 src A+
Jul 2 After Backrooms, Hollywood Goes All-In On Siren Head
option @ optioned “low seven figures”
with Warner Bros., Trevor Henderson, Zach Cregger +5
 Cosmic Book News+5 src A+
Jun 28 Exclusive: Backrooms VFX Supervisor Edward J. Douglas on Visualising Kane Parsons' Liminal Horror
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Kane Parsons, Edward J. Douglas, Chiwetel Ejiofor +5
 Phantasmagoria B
Jun 14 ‘Open Door’ YouTube Short to Get Feature Adaptation After ‘Obsession,’ ‘Backrooms’ Success
Deal @ in-development
with Kevin Cate, Rick Kearney, Clinging Vine Films +2
 The Wrap B
May 13 New Teaser For Backrooms Arrives
book-adaptation @ greenlit
with A24, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor +5
 SciFiNow A+
May 10 Did You Know Osgood Perkins Produced ‘Backrooms’ and Mentored Kane Parsons?
book-adaptation @ in-production
with Osgood Perkins, Kane Parsons, A24 +2
 Dread Central A
Apr 5 Chiwetel Ejiofor gets stuck in a furniture store's basement in A24's next anticipated horror Backrooms
public-domain-adaptation @ in-development
with A24, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor +4
 Google News (A24)+1 src A+

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Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 114 wire items (Feb 25 → Oct 13) matching Backrooms, deduplicated by URL (7 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 1.8% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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