The New Hollywood is Here

If you felt the ground shift this weekend in Hollywood, you're not alone. Big, huge records were broken, and these are not one-off anomalies. This is a bellwether of what's to come. I'm Tisha Morris, entertainment attorney, and the films Backrooms and Obsession, both horror films, beat out Star Wars this weekend. It was— Backrooms was A24's biggest opening ever. Directed by a 20-year-old. And what these two films have in common is they're both from YouTubers, okay? And so the audience that Backroom brought were partly because it was A24 and partly because the director was a known YouTube with an existing audience, okay? So these— while these are horror— horror is doing great right now, uh, they're easier to produce, potentially Anomalies. But I'm calling that this is a trend to see. Uh, Hollywood is forever changing, and celebrity culture