Bailey Spore

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

A24 SPENT 13 YEARS BUILDING PRESTIGE.

A 20-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBER JUST BROKE ITS BIGGEST RECORD IN 5 DAYS.

- Opened to $81.4M domestic - more than 3x the studio's previous record (Civil War)
- Made for ~$10M, based on a free YouTube creepypasta
- Directed by Kane Parsons, age 20
- 86% of the audience under 35
- Over half the crowd said the main reason they came was simply that it was an A24 film

The logo now sells tickets better than stars or trailers.

13 years of Oscar-winning cinema, and the all-time domestic record belongs to a 20-year-old who started making horror shorts on YouTube as a teenager.

The gatekeepers built the gate. The internet just walked through it.

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@AbattoirRecord Deadass one of two photos I’ve ever seen of him lmao

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

I also assumed it was a nepo baby situation, but in fact, it's actually a case of a creative young guy spending years creating an enormously popular YouTube series about the Backrooms and then getting invited by A24 to direct the film, which is very cool.

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

Aura like this at 20 is unreal

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

This BACKROOMS on-set photo goes hard.

[Variety @Variety]

#Backrooms producer James Wans says director Kane Parsons was only 16 years old when they first met about the film. (Parsons brought his dad to the meeting).

“We didn’t realize until we reached out that Kane was still in high school,” Wan admits.

Parsons, now 20, is the youngest filmmaker in history to have a film top box office charts.

https://t.co/mVxz18wvJm

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@_Brnda Deadass wemby if the spurs lose

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@jackm0429 @BNONews 😭😭😭

[Future Masi Assassinator @seenseener44]

Look at the way this lap is shot. We’ve regressed so much in the cinematography of this sport

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@Mikk_MV33 How did this age my guy

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@CL16_inside @Nolan_0108 VISUALLY? Mf wants Lewis to turn the car invisible 😭

Every car starting in front of Charles tmrw is impeding him visually and should be penalized

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@BellicIV You think mfs going to work on gta 6 drop day???

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@Pamaj Better call Saul, sopranos, Andor, succession, snowfall, bojack horseman, last airbender, tons of anime. You’re right tho, unfortunately lots of mainstream popular series get so caught up in money and forget all about the story they were telling

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@HossMatch He ain’t even scorch the block fr

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@_m1k333 It’s not AWFUL, but it is incredibly mid

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@Marvel_chavez @Rocketqt For literally a pointless conversation, they could’ve cut the scene fr it wouldn’t have made a difference (no shade to her, great actress)

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@Rocketqt 😭😭😭

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@ajdillon7 Wym bro literally nothing happened

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@espnmma @danawhite This shit not happenin😭

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@freemaowtf Nah this is Verstappen’s car actually

[Bailey Spore @BaileySpore]

@freak_content @mattreevesLA Paper boi