Obsession it probably needed to make about $30 million to break even. An indie horror film It was budgeted at around $750,000 and after the premiere Toronto International Film Festival last year, Focus Features paid $14 million for the rights to distribute it. Then, you calculate that double the cost of the film is used to sell it. So, very rude, once Obsession about 30 million dollars, it was a success.
This happened on the fourth day.
Since then, Curry Barker’s diabolical horror film Obsession went on a box office run for centuries. While most films make most of their money on their opening weekend, Obsession he saw his income actually increase over a few weekends, something that hasn’t happened for widespread broadcast in decades. And in the weeks since, it’s held up incredibly well against not only other independent horror films. Back roomsbut as a massive Hollywood production Toy story 5, super girland Disclosure day.
This success continued as the film crossed another milestone this weekend. During the highly competitive 4th of July holiday weekend in the US, Obsession It ranked 6th with an income of 5.3 million dollars. And that figure was enough to push the film past $400 million worldwide, earning $245 million domestically and $157 million internationally.
When you get into the hundreds of millions of dollars like this, the success of a movie, especially a horror movie, becomes an eye-popping historical film. Because while Hollywood often makes movies so expensive they feel like failures for $400 million, it’s another thing for a horror movie to win. Especially for less than a million dollars to do it once.
In a broader context, depending on how you classify what is or isn’t a horror film, Obsession now it’s either in the top 15 highest grossing horror movies of all time (if you go This is the Wikipedia list) or in the top 10, if you’re a little more selective (Is Beetlejuice 2 is it really a horror movie? Come on.) And, regardless of where they specifically rank, undeniably most hitters are above—This is The Sixth Sense, World War Zetc.—all cost considerably more to produce and market. This means that Obsession Of course, it might just be the highest-grossing horror movie of all time, not factoring in inflation. (Like anything, because inflation changes things Jawsfor example, it cost about $10 million and made about $500 million 50 years ago. That’s over a billion today.)
can Obsession Skip the next stage though? Can it reach half a billion dollars? With the movie recently arrived on VOD and is set for a physical release on July 14th, which is highly unlikely. Still, it only needed about $30 million to be successful, and it flew by months ago. The world is obsessed, and rightfully so.
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