Michael De Luca on Why 'Backrooms', 'Obsession' Are Working at Box Office

While there was no conversation about the elephant in the room–the pending Paramount Warner Bros Discovery merger-at Warner Bros Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca ‘s Produced By panel this afternoon, the studio boss took time to give props to the zeitgeist going on at the weekend box office, read the YouTube creators Kane Parsons and Curry Barker who are setting fire respectively with A24’s Backrooms and Focus Features’ Obsession .

Michael De Luca on Why 'Backrooms', 'Obsession' Are Working at Box Office. While there was no conversation about the elephant in the room–the pending Paramount Warner Bros Discovery merger-at Warner Bros Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca ‘s Produced By panel this afternoon, the studio boss took time to give props to the zeitgeist going on at the weekend box office, read the YouTube creators Kane Parsons and Curry Barker who are setting fire respectively with A24’s Backrooms and Focus Features’ Obsession . Why do these guys work at the box office with Parsons delivering A24’s biggest opening ever at the North American B.O. with $85M-$88M and Barker with Focus Features record stateside hit, Obsession clearing $106M this weekend? “They hone their craft online. Kane worked on Backrooms for five years,” said De Luca, “These filmmakers ar...