a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made.
Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history.
now look at what the industry spent that same money on:
- Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline.
- Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month.
- The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession.
Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill.
the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.
Students at Towson University in Maryland who confronted an Israeli soldier speaking at their campus:
“You’re a terrorist, bro. Get off my campus!”
“We’re not paying $30,000 a year in tuition to have a terrorist here.”
Brendan Fraser publicly revealed that he was sexually groped and assaulted in 2003 by Philip Berk, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Philip Berk is a ✡️
L’HORREUR ABSOLUE.
À Gaza des enfants palestiniens sont déchiquetés par les forces d’occupation israéliennes.
Ne cessez jamais de parler de la Palestine !
One of the hardest moments I am living through right now is seeing bodies burning before my eyes — infants, children, and women — while I am unable to do anything.
I am helpless… completely helpless.
Gaza is being annihilated before the eyes of the world.