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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Obsession Is No Longer the Biggest Sleeper Hit of All Time. So What Movie Just Stole the Title? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The horror flick Obsession has been declared the undisputed sleeper
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  Speaker 2: hit of all time, costing only $ 800, 000 and raking in
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  Speaker 2: nearly $ 500 million. But it's now not even the most
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  Speaker 2: profitable movie of this summer when you consider return on
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  Speaker 2: investment because the latest breakout hit was produced for somewhere
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  Speaker 2: between $ 45 and $ 200 million. Yeah, that's in dollars, not millions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an animated Chinese movie about a young cow
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  Speaker 3: titled Neoli. And it's closing in on $ 7 million at
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  Speaker 3: China's box office. But it's not exactly because of it
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  Speaker 3: being an incredibly creative accomplishment.
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  Speaker 4: People are kind of comparing it to the viral movie
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  Speaker 4: The Room, which kind of became famous for being so
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  Speaker 4: bad that it's actually so good.
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  Speaker 2: This was made by a Chinese mother and son who
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  Speaker 2: literally had zero experience and no budget. And it might
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  Speaker 2: kind of show a little bit. It hit theaters there
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  Speaker 2: earlier this month and its first 10 days of release,
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  Speaker 2: it earned a little more than $ 1, 100 not per screen total.
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  Speaker 3: Which is only like 300 tickets, but out of those
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  Speaker 3: 300 moviegoers, some memes snuck out of theaters. Word got out,
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  Speaker 3: and Neoli absolutely exploded in popularity.
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  Speaker 2: For some perspective, Obsession has made about 600 times its
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  Speaker 2: budget wildly impressive. In fact, that was the greatest return
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  Speaker 2: on investment in movie history, but no longer. Neoli, by
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  Speaker 2: extremely conservative estimates, it's earned 20,000 times its budget.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.