A pair of YouTuber-helmed horror films scored big at the box office, and others could follow as Hollywood turns to creators.

Two young YouTube filmmakers achieved a historic milestone, surpassing Star Wars in a major box office weekend, signaling a transformative shift in the entertainment industry.

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Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences want

The horror films, both from filmmakers with origins on YouTube, could mark the start of a new era.

"This is just a chronic pattern of contempt for the next wave of cultural production," an industry insider tells The Hollywood Reporter about baseless online conspiracies…

The multi-million-dollar openings of indie horror flicks "Obsession" and "Backrooms" have Hollywood buzzing about the 20-something YouTuber directors who are driving Generation Z…

The films are both made by 20-something YouTubers turned filmmakers.

Variety spoke with Hollywood producers, filmmakers, distributors and YouTube execs about the horror films shaking up the industry.

What made the box office debuts of both "Obsession" and "Backrooms" so surprising is how well they fared against major studio releases.

After ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ made history, here are the talents on deck to make the jump from YouTube views to theatrical grosses.

A pair of YouTuber-helmed horror films scored big at the box office, and others could follow as Hollywood turns to creators.

Horror films by Kane Parsons, the Philippou brothers, Curry Barker and other YouTubers show Hollywood’s fastest path now runs through millions of followers, not film school or…

A wave of YouTuber-turned box-office-record-breaking horror auteurs have Hollywood nervous and rethinking the filmmaking playbook

Les succès d’«Obsession» et de «Backrooms» pourraient signaler le début d’un nouveau cycle hollywoodien.

Meet YouTube creators who transitioned into filmmaking

The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession has made stars of their creators. For the good of cinema, however, they’d do well to look beyond the genre going forward

Curry Barker's 'Obsession' and Kane Parsons' 'Backrooms' Prove That Viral Talent and Word of Mouth Can Still Make Low-budget Horror Into Box-office Success