“A Meme Became A Movie?” - YouTube Creator's 'Backrooms' CRUSHES Disney’s Star Wars Reboot

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
So you're saying with Hilton Honors, I can use points for a free night stay anywhere? Anywhere.
What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris? Yeah, Hilton Honors, baby. Or relaxing sanctuaries like the Conrad and Tulum?

**Pat** (0:13)
Hilton Honors, baby.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:15)
What about the five-star Waldorf Astoria in the Maldives? Are you gonna do this for all 9,000 properties?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:22)
When you want points that can take you anywhere, anytime, it matters where you stay. Hilton for the stay.

**Pat** (0:28)
A meme becomes a movie? You mean to tell me a meme, and a guy makes a video that gets 7.9 million views with doors and what is it called? It's called Back what?

**Vinny** (0:37)
Backrooms.

**Pat** (0:38)
Backrooms. And this thing becomes a movie? A 20-year-old directs the movie.
Small little budget. And how much did it do opening weekend, Vinny?

**Vinny** (0:47)
So Pat, so Obsession, okay, I'm sorry. Backrooms was made for 10 million. It made, I don't have the number, oh, I'm sorry.

**Pat** (0:56)
117 million opening weekend.

**Vinny** (0:58)
117 million dollars.

**Pat** (0:59)
Opening weekend. That's crazy.

**Vinny** (1:01)
Good for him.

**Pat** (1:02)
So this weekend, a moody horror movie based on an internet meme looks like it could bring in astonishing 60 million dollars at the box office, which means it could be Disney's Mandalorian, Star Wars director Kane Parsons has made stuff on YouTube for years, but this was a film for theaters, which made sense.
He is 20 years old, the followers of Successive Obsession, which has grossed 74 million dollars the last two weeks. It was made by 26-year-old Curry Barker, another YouTube veteran making his theatrical debut. Those films come after Mark Fischbach, better known for his 38 million YouTube fans as Markiplier, brought out his Iron Lung movie, which he made for a reported 3 million. Okay, so I haven't seen it yet. I was supposed to go watch it with you, but I went to watch a different movie yesterday.

**Vinny** (1:48)
What did you guys watch?

**Pat** (1:49)
So let me tell you what movie we watched.

**Vinny** (1:50)
Because Brooklyn came out of the movie, she jumped on my arms, and then she was trying to tell me, you heard her character break down, and the movie break down was hilarious.

**Pat** (1:58)
I will gladly tell you, originally I wasn't going to say this, but we watched a movie called Sheep Detectives.
I'm actually not kidding with you. We watched Sheep Detectives, and yes, I'm proud that I watched this movie.

**Vinny** (2:11)
Sheep Detectives, that?

**Pat** (2:13)
It's a phenomenal, Starring Elton John, apparently. Phenomenal movie, believe it or not, it's a phenomenal movie. But what was this, the back, back, what is it called?

**Vinny** (2:22)
Backrooms? Backrooms, it's, so, I'm not giving anything away, no spoiler, I'm not that guy, but it was basically, no.

**Tico** (2:29)
Thriller horror, right?

**Vinny** (2:30)
The horror, horror film, but-

**Pat** (2:32)
Were you ever scared like shivers?

**Vinny** (2:34)
Oh, absolutely, oh, I, by the way, I screamed. By the way, Tico's holding his ears, by the music, the soundtrack, all amazing, all amazing. This guy who owns a furniture store finds this part of a wall that goes into another dimension. I'm not going to give it away, but guys, it was weird. It felt like a mix of like, what's the movie with Inception, with the mix of like, I don't even know, like Matrix. It was, it was great, but bad. This is it. This is the biggest opening ever for an original film. Like you said, 20 year old Kane Parsons, he started on YouTube, but here's what's happening. Disney spent $165 million and seven years trying to revive Star Wars. Okay. Obsession came out, Pat, which I already texted Tico this morning.
It was made for 750,000. Okay. Both directed, by the way, by 20 year old YouTubers. Disney's sitting at number three. Think about that, guys. Okay. Not only did Star Wars lose the weekday numbers to obsession last week, but in the weekend too, it collapsed 69.4 percent, the worst second week drop in Star Wars history, worse than Solo, which everybody considered a disaster. Then it gets even more embarrassing. Obsession, in its third week, went up 19 percent past Star Wars again. Then Backrooms showed up and steamrolls everybody. Okay. And my thing is, this is what happens when Hollywood, we've seen it for the past, what, eight years, Pat, maybe a little bit more, they forgot about storytelling and they making content that feels corporate, sanitized, woke, DEI nonsense, preachy, and just manufactured committees. But these ones...

**Tico** (4:13)
In other words, Hollywood.