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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.
🇺🇸 Hollywood spent 20 years trying to figure out what Gen Z wants.
Two YouTubers just answered for them.
Kane Parsons made a horror film for $10 million. It pulled $81.5 million in three days and beat Star Wars at the box office in its second weekend.
Curry Barker is 26. His film cost less than $1 million to produce. It made $26.4 million this weekend.
The studios with their $200M budgets, their focus groups, their IP franchises. outdrawn by 2 guys who learned filmmaking on YouTube.
Gen Z doesn't have a short attention span. They just have zero patience for content that insults their intelligence.
Source: NBC News
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