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A meme becomes a movie. You mean to tell me a meme and a guy makes a video gets 7.9 million views with doors and what is it called? It's called back what? Back rooms. And this thing becomes a movie. A 20 yearear-old year old directs the movie. Small little budget. And how much did it do opening weekend, Vinnie? So Pat, so obsession. Okay. I'm sorry. Back rooms was made for 10 million. It made um I don't have the Oh, I'm sorry. Uh 117 million opening weekend. $17 million opening weekend. That's crazy.
Good for him. So this weekend a moody horror movie based on internet meme looks like it could bring in astonishing $60 million at the box office which means it could be Disney's Mandalorian Star Wars director Kain Parsons has made stuff on YouTube for years, but this was a film for theaters which made sense. He is 20 years old. The follows of success of Obsession which has grossed $74 million last two weeks. It was made by 26-y old Curry Barker, another YouTube veteran, making his theatrical debut. These those films come after Mark Fishbach, 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 and watched a different movie yesterday. What' you guys watch? Okay, so let me tell you what movie we watched cuz Brooklyn tried. Brooklyn came out of the movie. She jumped in my arms and then she was trying to tell me. You heard her character breakdown or the movie breakdown was hilarious. I sadly tell you originally I wasn't gonna 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 watch this movie. Let me tell you a phenomenal starring Elton phenomenal movie. Believe it or not it's a phenomenal movie. But what was this? The back what
is it called? Back rooms. It's It's so I'm not giving anything away. No spoiler alert. I'm not that guy. But it was basically thriller. Horror, right? Horror film. Were you ever scared? Like shiver? Oh, absolutely. Oh, I By the way, I screamed. By the way, Tico's holding his ears, brother. The music, the soundtrack. 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 uh what's the movie with Inception with a mix of like I
don't even know like Matrix. 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. Uh, it was made for 750,000. Okay. Both directed, by the way, by 20-year-old uh YouTubers. Disney's sitting at number three. Think about that, guys. Okay. Not only did Star Wars lose uh the weekday numbers to Obsession last week, but uh in the weekend too, it collapsed 69.4%.
The worst second week drop in Star Wars history. Worse than Solo. Uh which everybody considered a disaster. Then it gets even more embarrassing. obsession in his third week went up 19% past Star Wars again. Then backroom showed up and steamrolls everybody. Okay. And my thing is this is what happens when Holly Hollywood we've seen it for the past got 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 uh committees. But these in other words Hollywood. Yeah. Exactly. But these younger creators, they grew up understanding like the internet culture, what people like, this suspense, the pacing. Guys, I
told Tico, the way that it's shot, you feel like you're there. And when you're getting those jump scares, you actually feel like it's scary. Not like the nonsense that these freaking big studios are making. And then like this actually, you're entertaining people and not lecturing them every freaking five minutes. This is the guy, this video right here. You won't believe how many views it got. So, he produced this. This was a meme. He produced this four years ago, 5 years ago, this video. Yeah. Guess how many views this video has with 9 minutes and 13 seconds.
How much How many views you think this thing's got? Can you fast forward a little bit? Okay, so it starts like that and then it's just This is it. By the way, this is the You know how many views this thing's got from four years ago? Rob, can you pull it out so they can see? That sounded bad. Can you just pull the 81? 81 million views is what it's got. Good for him. Four years ago. Good for him. And it's the same guy that ends up doing the movie. Yeah. And then Pat, check that out though. See that 3.19 million. Those people, he grew the fans by himself. They know exactly who he is.
They know he knows how to shoot. They're the ones going and supporting and they're going and to watch it. I had, by the way, I had no idea who he was till Tico showed me this guy. This guy before the movie. Tico was showing me this. The game is changing, man. With kids. The game is changing with movies. 20-year-old directors making a movie that does $118 million worldwide opening weekend. Truly scare and hold on. And truly scaring people like cuz that's the thing. You're going to go watch it cuz you want to get scared.
Pat, Obsession and The Mandalorian and Guru, they're both tracking to make $300 million. Let's let's just be okay. Even though the indie horror cost 750, the reboot for Star Wars costs 165 million with another 200 million on marketing. Guess what Kane's marketing is? My YouTube channel. Check out my YouTube channel and doing what we're doing. So, kudos to him, Pat, and all these young indie people that are beyond making a dent. They're they're knocking down the damn building. You know what's really you know what's really crazy about this that you bring this up. You know what was the most successful independent one of the one of the two most successful independent movies?
Uh Blair Witch Project 1999 and it cost 60,000 to make which is 150,000 today and it did a 248 box office. Then there was the room also 2003 and then you have um El Mariachi 1992 and then Iron Lung that was built this year and Obsession this year. So you have two of the top seven independent movies of all time small budget self-funded happened just this year. And what Patcha said the game is changing the um do you remember um Big Fat Greek Wedding? Of course, that was a small uh studio fund. They said, "Look, we'll we'll do a $5 million budget." This is 2002 2003. That's your ceiling. You got to make it work for that. And so that would be 9.7 million today. And they went out and did $368 million, which is 650 today. So, you
know what's really funny? It's what you're talking about. It's it's storytelling and the projects that get through the filter. Um, there was, do you remember Project Greenlight? Of course. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, right? It's them telling the story of how hard it is to take good storytelling and you got to get people to believe in it. Ben freaking Affleck took, I believe it was 11 years to get studio distrib. He had the money, but he needed to get studio distribution support for Argo. Yeah. Which was a freaking hit. Phenomenal movie. But he had the money, but he it took 11 years to get a studio behind it to give him a release date so he could get it.
God bless you. I could have done. Damn it. To you independent creators out there, follow it, man. The audience is I love this for kids. I love this for kids because you're talking to Tico. You're like, "How about we do a horror movie?" I love this for kids. You know, he's writing stuff right now. I of course he is. Did he tell you or No, he's writing. Did he tell me what? But I Oh, no. He's not telling anybody till he's done, but he's writing characters.
I got him the book about how to write the book proper way by a guy named Jim Scott Bell that Tom introduced me to 15 years ago and Jim Scott Bell of Rob if you pull him up James Scott Bell he wrote the best book on how to get the right plot for a book that the first one right there plot and structure right there. Yeah, I saw him reading this. Yeah. That's the book. So this book gives you know how to properly write a fiction book. So he's kind of going through it right now. He's deep into it by the way. I love he's deep into it. So, who knows? Maybe we're going to be, you know, I want to act. I told I want to act. I better not die in the first 8 seconds of the movie.
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