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Backrooms, Obsession, and the Creator Movie Moment: What It Means for Kids and Teens Media
A hosts' hangout with Andy and Jo, prompted by a conversation that has been running hot across LinkedIn all week: creator-made films are pulling audiences into cinemas in a way that Hollywood studios haven't managed for years. Backrooms — made by 20-year-old Kane Parsons who taught himself Blender during Covid — and Obsession, made by Cory Barker for under a million dollars, are both seeing successive weeks of audience growth in theatres. The last film to do that was E.T.
The conversation goes beyond the hot takes to ask what's actually driving it. Andy and Jo's argument is that this isn't…
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