498 - Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster

**Tim Dillon** (0:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Tim Dillon Show. I directed Backrooms. That kid's a fraud. That kid's full of shit. He's a fraud. I directed that movie. It was my fucking idea. And that money's mine, and we're coming for your throat. That is my fucking money. $100 million in the opening weekend. Backrooms, someone got lost in a store. That's my money. I directed that. Why did they bring in opening weekend Backrooms? $118 million globally, $118 million globally of my money stolen from me by the Hollywood system, by a child, and that other guy, Curry Barker, Obsession. I directed that. I also directed Obsession. How much did that bring in? Opening weekend.
This is how Hollywood is gonna repair itself, by the way. We're gonna have young people with inspiring stories.
But, so first weekend was $17 million, second weekend, $23 million, third weekend, $26 million. Global growth surpassed $166 million worldwide, and it had a tiny budget of roughly $750,000 to $1 million. Now, these are undeniably Hollywood success stories, and many of you are out there going, and does that mean I'm going to have a similar experience? No!
Do not read too much into this. This is not the beginning of a trend. This is not the beginning of a wave in which you will catch. This is not that. These are lovable flukes. They're flukes. That's what it means. And there's nothing, they are good movies, and they're talented people. But it does not apply to you. It does not apply to you eating cat food in your living room on the floor. Well, I just, well, I bet I'll make a hundred million. Shut up!
You're not, this doesn't affect, you know how many losers I have had tell me that they feel inspired by this? I hate that. I hate that. They should do the reverse. It should make you feel that it is less impossible now than ever because they've already done it.
But people, people need hope and I get it and I understand that and I don't begrudge anyone that. I'm just saying I am getting calls from, I mean, zeros. It's unbelievable. The people that have my number somehow, somehow, someway have ways to contact me telling me, well, Hollywood be damned. These young fox made a lot of money. And now, by the way, you would think, are these young people, Tim, calling you? Are they young people? No. Are they filmmakers even? Absolutely not. These are, these are people in their middle age who are out of their minds. Many of them are on drugs and they're calling me and they're going, it all seems possible now. Finally, a movie did well at the box office, a horror movie, and it was made for a low budget. So I am going to replicate that. You will not, you are not going to do that.
And by the way, if you do, great, great. An egg on my face, but you will not be able to do that. So I just put these things in their perspective. Can anyone put anything in perspective? Can anyone just be happy for these gentlemen and put it in perspective? It does not mean that there is going to be a whirlwind of successful projects that will now involve you. It is quite rare that a movie at that budget makes that amount of money. Well, you know, I can prove it's rare because it's such a big fucking story.
Like everyone like, Spencer Pratt is going to be the new Trump, and then there's going to be all these people. It's not going to happen. Nothing is changing. Here is the message for today. And it is a message actually of hope. Nothing is changing. Nothing is happening. Nothing is happening. Nothing is changing. Nothing is happening. The idea that things are happening is a mirage. It is not water in the desert. It is more desert. It looks like water. And if you feel like it's good, oh, look, I have water now. We're going to get honey.
Tell the donkey to just trudge on a little while longer. There's water over there. There is not. There is not. Nothing is happening. Karen Bass is winning again in LA. Whether you like it or not. I'm not commenting on whether you like it or not. I don't care what you think about it. It's going to happen. Nithya Raman will probably surpass him when the mail-in votes come in. They're all going to come in. She's already gaining on him. She's at 23.4. He's at 29.4. Bass is at 35 Listen, if things stay where they are, he had a second place finish. It's a little impressive. But Karen Bass will get almost all, if not all, of Nithya Raman's votes and will breeze into the election. Spencer Pratt is excited because he can spend the next five months shooting his reality show. Does it mean that I hate Spencer Pratt or that all of his ideas are bad or whatever? Here's what it simply means. Nothing is happening. Nothing is happening. Don't think it is. There's no shake up. It's not happening. So you're gonna, you're reading too much into things. Now, all of these people that I talked to, the main problem I have with a lot of what they're saying is because everyone's so desperate and hopeless now, everybody is reading so much into every single thing that happens. And they're like, well, if this is, this is a ground breaking Hollywood taking notice.