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

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00:00:30.000 A meme becomes a movie?

00:00:31.820 You mean to tell me a meme and a guy makes a video, gets 7.9 million views with doors

00:00:37.280 and what is it called?

00:00:37.980 It's called back what?

00:00:38.880 Back rooms.

00:00:39.720 Back rooms.

00:00:40.840 And this thing becomes a movie.

00:00:42.700 A 20-year-old directs the movie.

00:00:46.060 Small little budget.

00:00:47.860 And how much did it do opening weekend, Vinny?

00:00:49.520 So, Pat, so Obsession.

00:00:51.820 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:00:52.280 Back rooms was made for $10 million.

00:00:54.120 It made, I don't have the number.

00:00:56.900 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:00:58.420 $117 million opening weekend.

00:00:59.920 $17 million.

00:01:01.380 Opening weekend.

00:01:02.380 That's crazy.

00:01:03.520 Good for him.

00:01:04.380 So this weekend, a moody horror movie based on an internet meme

00:01:07.880 looks like it could bring in astonishing $60 million at the box office,

00:01:11.200 which means it could be Disney's Mandalorian, Star Wars.

00:01:15.880 Director Kane Parsons has made stuff on YouTube for years,

00:01:19.520 but this was a film for theaters, which made sense.

00:01:22.240 He is 20 years old.

00:01:23.260 The followers of Success of Obsession, which has grossed $74 million last two weeks.

00:01:26.860 It was made by 26-year-old Curry Barker.

00:01:29.660 Another YouTube veteran making his theatrical debut.

00:01:32.240 Those films come after Mark Fischbach, better known for his 38 million YouTube fans as Markiplier,

00:01:41.120 brought out his Iron Lung movie, which he made for a reported $3 million.

00:01:45.300 Okay, so I haven't seen it yet.

00:01:47.200 I was supposed to go watch it with you, but I went and watched a different movie yesterday.

00:01:50.300 What did you guys watch?

00:01:51.060 Okay, so let me tell you what movie we watched.

00:01:52.620 Because Brooklyn came out of the movie, she jumped in my arms, and then she was trying to tell me.

00:01:57.080 You heard her character breakdown, and the movie breakdown was hilarious.

00:01:59.880 I will gladly tell you.

00:02:01.060 Originally, I wasn't going to say this, but we watched a movie called Sheep Detectives. 0.89

00:02:07.060 I'm actually not kidding with you.

00:02:08.800 We watched Sheep Detectives.

00:02:10.240 And, yes, I'm proud that I watched this movie. 0.51

00:02:13.520 Let me tell you. 0.98

00:02:14.320 Sheep Detectives, Matt?

00:02:15.000 It's a phenomenal, phenomenal movie.

00:02:19.560 Believe it or not, it's a phenomenal movie.

00:02:21.400 But what was this?

00:02:22.920 What is it called?

00:02:23.820 Backrooms.

00:02:24.260 Back rooms, it's so – I'm not giving anything away.

00:02:27.800 No spoiler alert.

00:02:28.620 I'm not that guy.

00:02:29.520 But it was basically –

00:02:31.060 Thriller, horror, right?

00:02:32.460 Horror, horror film.

00:02:34.540 Were you ever scared like shivers?

00:02:36.060 Oh, absolutely.

00:02:37.080 By the way, I screamed.

00:02:39.800 By the way, Tico's holding his ears.

00:02:41.060 By the way, the music, the soundtrack, all amazing, all amazing.

00:02:44.460 This guy owns a furniture store,

00:02:46.640 finds this part of a wall that goes into another dimension.

00:02:51.100 I'm not going to give it away.

00:02:52.060 but guys it was weird it felt like a mix of like uh what's the movie with inception with the mix

00:03:00.560 of like i don't even know what like matrix it was it was great but bad this is it this is the biggest

00:03:06.060 opening ever for an original film like you said 20 year old kane parsons he started on youtube

00:03:12.140 but here's what's happening disney spent 165 million dollars and seven years trying to revive

00:03:18.540 star wars okay obsession came out pat which i already texted tico this morning uh it was made

00:03:24.100 for 750 000 okay both directed by the way by 20 year old uh youtubers disney's sitting at number

00:03:31.120 three think about that guys okay not only did star wars lose uh the weekday numbers to obsession last

00:03:36.820 week but uh in the weekend too it collapsed 69.4 percent the worst second week drop in star wars

00:03:43.160 history worse than solo uh which everybody considered it a disaster then it gets even

00:03:47.960 more embarrassing obsession and his third week went up 19 past star wars again then backroom

00:03:53.640 showed up and steamrolls everybody okay and my thing is this is what happens when holly hollywood

00:03:59.660 we've seen it for the past got what eight years pat maybe a little bit more they forgot about

00:04:04.040 storytelling and they making content that feels corporate sanitized woke dei nonsense preachy

00:04:11.940 and just manufactured committees.

00:04:14.860 In other words, Hollywood.

00:04:15.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:04:16.700 But these younger creators, they grew up understanding the internet culture,

00:04:21.020 what people like, this suspense, the pacing.

00:04:23.960 Guys, I told Tico, the way that it's shot, you feel like you're there.

00:04:27.580 And when you're getting those jump scares, you actually feel like it's scary. 0.90

00:04:30.420 Not like the nonsense that these freaking big studios are making.

00:04:35.620 And then like this, actually you're entertaining people 0.95

00:04:37.720 and not lecturing them every freaking five minutes.

00:04:40.100 This is the guy.

00:04:41.140 This video right here, you won't believe how many views it got.

00:04:43.360 So he produced this.

00:04:44.240 This was a meme.

00:04:45.060 He produced this four years ago, five years ago, this video.

00:04:47.700 Yeah.

00:04:48.060 Guess how many views this video has with nine minutes and 13 seconds?

00:04:52.320 How much?

00:04:52.860 How many views do you think this thing's got?

00:04:54.200 Can you fast forward a little bit?

00:04:55.880 Okay, so it starts like that, and then it's just a bunch of—

00:04:59.140 This is it.

00:04:59.560 By the way, this is the oh, my God.

00:05:00.680 You know how many views this thing's got from four years ago, Rob?

00:05:02.580 Can you pull it out so they can see that sound of bad?

00:05:04.700 Can you just pull the—

00:05:05.780 81 million.

00:05:06.420 81 million views is what it's got.

00:05:08.800 Good for him.

00:05:09.420 Four years ago.

00:05:10.260 Good for him.

00:05:10.840 And it's the same guy that ends up doing the movie.

00:05:13.080 Yeah.

00:05:13.420 And then, Pat, check that out, though.

00:05:14.480 See that 3.19 million?

00:05:16.680 Those people, he grew the fans by himself.

00:05:19.140 They know exactly who he is.

00:05:20.180 They know he knows how to shoot.

00:05:21.680 They're the ones going and supporting.

00:05:23.360 And they're going to watch it.

00:05:25.180 By the way, I had no idea who he was until Tico showed me this guy.

00:05:28.440 This guy before the movie.

00:05:29.760 Tico was showing me this guy.

00:05:30.540 The game is changing, man, with kids.

00:05:32.600 The game is changing with movies, 20-year-old directors making a movie

00:05:35.820 that does $118 million worldwide opening weekend.

00:05:38.860 Truly scary.

00:05:39.400 And hold on.

00:05:40.140 and truly scaring people.

00:05:42.080 Because that's the thing.

00:05:42.860 That's the thing.

00:05:43.220 You're going to go watch it because you want to get scared.

00:05:45.020 Pat, Obsession and The Mandalorian and Guru,

00:05:47.860 they're both tracking to make $300 million.

00:05:49.780 Let's just be, okay.

00:05:51.160 Even though the indie horror costs $750 million,

00:05:53.880 the reboot for Star Wars costs $165 million

00:05:57.420 with another $200 million on marketing.

00:06:01.100 Guess what Kane's marketing is?

00:06:02.640 My YouTube channel.

00:06:04.140 Check out my YouTube channel and doing what we're doing.

00:06:06.180 So kudos to him, Pat, and all these young indie people

00:06:09.140 that are beyond making a dent. 1.00

00:06:11.080 They're knocking down the damn building. 0.99

00:06:13.660 You know what's really crazy about this 1.00

00:06:15.120 that you bring this up? You know what was the most successful

00:06:17.480 independent, one of

00:06:19.400 the two most successful independent

00:06:21.320 movies? I guess. Horror?

00:06:23.340 Blair Witch Project. And then

00:06:24.960 Paranormal. 1999.

00:06:27.000 And it cost $60,000 to make, which is

00:06:29.020 $150,000 today. And it did

00:06:31.220 a 248 box office.

00:06:32.980 Then there was The Room,

00:06:35.380 also 2003.

00:06:37.460 And then you have

00:06:38.620 El Mariachi 1992

00:06:40.860 and then Iron Lung that was

00:06:42.900 built this year and

00:06:44.800 Obsession this year. So you have

00:06:46.880 two of the top seven

00:06:49.080 independent movies of all time

00:06:51.040 small budget self-funded

00:06:52.660 happened just this year.

00:06:54.520 And what Pat just said, the game

00:06:56.540 is changing.

00:06:58.320 Do you remember

00:07:00.300 Big Fat Greek Wedding?

00:07:02.040 That was a small

00:07:03.900 studio fund. They said, look,

00:07:06.580 we'll do a $5 million

00:07:08.300 dollar budget this is 2002 2003 that's your ceiling you gotta you gotta make it work for that

00:07:14.600 and so that would be 9.7 million today and they went out and did 368 million dollars which is 650

00:07:22.140 today so you know what's really funny it's what you're talking about it's it's storytelling and

00:07:28.220 the projects that get through the filter um there was uh do you remember project green light of

00:07:34.240 Of course, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

00:07:36.220 Right.

00:07:36.660 It's them telling the story of how hard it is to take good storytelling,

00:07:40.600 and you've got to get people to believe in it.

00:07:43.040 Ben freaking Affleck took, I believe it was, 11 years to get studio distribution.

00:07:49.160 He had the money, but he needed to get studio distribution support for Argo. 0.94

00:07:54.140 Argo, yeah, which was a freaking hit.

00:07:55.980 Argo, phenomenal movie.

00:07:57.360 But he had the money, but it took 11 years to get a studio behind it

00:08:00.920 to give him a release date so he could get it.

00:08:03.200 God bless you.

00:08:04.900 That stuff could have done damage.

00:08:06.660 To you independent creators out there, follow it, man.

00:08:09.620 The audience is out there.

00:08:10.640 I love this for kids.

00:08:11.720 I love this for kids because you're talking to Tico.

00:08:13.960 You're like, how about we do a horror movie again?

00:08:15.060 I love this for kids.

00:08:17.180 You know, he's writing stuff right now.

00:08:18.600 Of course he is.

00:08:19.380 Did he tell you or not?

00:08:20.380 He didn't tell me what, but I did.

00:08:21.780 Oh, no, he's not telling anybody until he's done,

00:08:23.280 but he's writing characters.

00:08:24.300 I got him the book about how to write the book proper way

00:08:27.740 by a guy named Jim Scott Bell that Tom introduced me to 15 years ago.

00:08:31.720 And Jim Scott Bell.

00:08:32.560 Rob, if you pull him up, James Scott Bell, he wrote the best book on how to get the right plot for a book.

00:08:38.280 The first one right there, plot and structure right there, yeah.

00:08:40.480 I saw him reading this.

00:08:41.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:41.920 That's the book.

00:08:42.660 So this book gives you, you know, how to properly write a fiction book.

00:08:47.820 So he's kind of going through it right now.

00:08:49.140 He's deep into it, by the way.

00:08:50.160 I love it.

00:08:50.800 He's deep into it.

00:08:51.540 So who knows?

00:08:52.160 Maybe we're going to be, you know what I'm saying?

00:08:53.160 I want to act.

00:08:53.720 I'm going to act.

00:08:54.420 I better not die in the first eight seconds of the movie.

00:08:56.420 He will intentionally do something like that.

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Valuetainment - June 03, 2026

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

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