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From YouTube to box office history: The Gen Z director rewriting the rules of cinema

On this week's film show, critic Emma Jones joins Eve Jackson to review the latest cinema releases. They discuss "Backrooms", the record-breaking horror hit from 20-year-old director Kane Parsons, now the youngest filmmaker ever to top the US box office. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, the film is shaking…

France 24

Move over, Hollywood; build a digital community and they will come

Comment from Auckland University: NZ can use scale to its advantage by positioning itself as a community-first digital economy, says Kenny Ching

Newsroom.co.nz

From YouTube to Hollywood: Digital creators are remaking the movie business

Some of the most promising young filmmakers in the movie business are arriving in Hollywood already experts at entertaining audiences and going viral

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Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'

PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.

PC Gamer

Love The Advice Steven Spielberg Has For Backrooms And Obsession’s Young Directors As They Start Out

Not bad advice.

Cinemablend

‘Backrooms’: Internet ‘creepypasta’ is year’s most unsettling horror film

The innovative studio A24 has not disappointed again. Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (2026) might be one of the most unique horror films we have seen lately. Based on a 2019 creepypasta (horror Internet myth), it frightens viewers not with jump scares but with a continuous eerie liminal atmosphere, where something deeply…

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Steven Spielberg has word of warning for young Obsession and Backrooms directors

Steven Spielberg directed Jaws in his 20s, so he knows what Curry Barker and Kane Parsons are going through.

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A Beloved Sci-Fi Game Could Get The 'Backrooms' Treatment

Hot off the success of 'Backrooms,' Kane Parsons has expressed interest in directing an adaptation of the beloved 'Portal' games.

Inverse

Backrooms director's dad returns to old Facebook post asking for career help for his son as the movie hits #1 worldwide: 'Thanks for the help. He figured it out!'

Everyone deserves a victory lap.

PC Gamer

Ditch the lightsabers and spandex. These are 2026’s new box office champions

A fresh crop of filmmakers are changing the metrics upon which success is measured

The Independent UK

YouTubers are taking over Hollywood, but can they really save cinema?

From Backrooms to Obsession, young creators are reviving the box office with low-budget gems... for now.

Creative Bloq

New A24 film set to nab studio record from Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme

The psychological horror has been playing in US theaters for only nine days

The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg Has Some Thoughts About Obsession And Backrooms As His Own Tentpole Release Heads To Theaters

Be right back, I'm going to get tickets.

Cinemablend

Horror’s Hollywood takeover is an exciting moment – but won’t someone think of the squeamish?

The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession has made stars of their creators. For the good of cinema, however, they’d do well to look beyond the genre going forward

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Cinemablend

Why Backrooms' Big Box Office Win Feels ‘Cathartic’ In Some Hollywood Circles

It can't be understated just how huge this is.

PC Gamer

These are the 5 games you need to check out after watching A24's Backrooms film

Backrooms is a state of mind.

The Mary Sue

Is Shawn Levy Really Trying to Do a Mash-Up Movie with Star Wars and a New Horror Fave?

If Levy has his way, we might just see these two worlds collide sooner than we think.

Euronews

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Backrooms' - Liminal space horror you'll want to get lost in

Released last week in the US and UK, this year’s breakout horror hit finally heads to European cinemas. It was worth the wait.

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Total Film

Backrooms director Kane Parsons is seemingly considering a Portal movie “with a lot of caution and a lot of curiosity”

The Backrooms director is thinking with portals

Total Film

Backrooms director says Valve is an inspiration: "Don't make it if there's not a meaningful reason motivating it"

"They take it to such an extreme"

Euronews

R-AI-ging Bull: Backlash against Martin Scorsese after director endorses 'creatively freeing' AI

Martin Scorsese is at the heart of the ever-growing debate regarding the rise of AI in Hollywood. The director of 'Taxi Driver' and 'Wolf of Wall Street' has endorsed an AI tool which he has described as "creatively freeing" in the pre-production process.

Total Film

Director of one of 2026's biggest surprise horror hits slams GenAI: "If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would"

Kane Parsons is not a fan of generative AI

Creative Bloq

The original Backrooms films on YouTube are even creepier than the blockbuster movie

The low-budget shorts made using Blender still pack a punch.

The Mary Sue

‘Backrooms,’ ‘Obsession’: Independent Horror Reigns at the Box Office

For the first time in…ever, really, the box office is currently being dominated by two independent horror films made by YouTubers in their twenties. Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, and Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, have stayed in the public discussion for weeks after their respective releases. Both films are…

Inverse

What Is Async? Backrooms' Mysterious Research Institute, Explained

One of the most interesting and esoteric aspects of 'Backrooms' is the mysterious Async Institute, and Kane Parsons' YouTube works provide a few answers.

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