Summary

Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend. It wasn’t for the big budget “Star Wars” movie , “The Mandalorian and Grogu, ” which fell sharply in its second weekend , however, but for a small budget horror from a 20-year-old first-time filmmaker that began on the internet. “Backrooms,” released by A24 in 3,442 locations in the U.S. and Canada, made an astonishing $81.5 million in its first three days in theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

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