Posted on 05/30/2026 9:17:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Disney's newest Star Wars movie, 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' just opened in theaters. It cost millions upon millions to make the film and it is absolutely getting its butt kicked by a small, independent horror movie called 'Obsession' which was made for a paltry $750,000.
Of course, $750K is a lot of money, but not by the standards of a Hollywood movie. That's chump change.
Even so, people are flocking to theaters to see 'Obsession' instead of Disney's newest expensive flick.
Star Wars fans have just been burned too many times. Disney basically broke the franchise by using it to push DEI and other woke concepts.
FOX News reports:
Low-budget horror flick 'Obsession' shatters box office expectations as new Star Wars film comes up short
A low-budget horror flick is defying gravity at the box office while the latest big-budget "Star Wars" movie had a rough launch compared to its predecessors.
Focus Features' "Obsession" was made with a microbudget of under $1 million. Initial projections showed it making less than $10 million in its opening weekend. It ended up making over $17 million.
This past weekend, it made roughly $24 million — $30 million when including Memorial Day — a whopping 30% increase from its opening weekend, outpacing much bigger films like "The Devil Wears Prada 2" and the Michael Jackson biopic "Michael." It even outgrossed "The Mandalorian and Grogu" on Wednesday.
Such a bump for a film in its second weekend is nearly unheard of. It has already grossed over $70 million worldwide and is now projected to make more than $100 million during its theatrical run, making it one of the most profitable films of the year.
What’s remarkable about the success of “Obsession” is that it proves that Hollywood star power isn’t always needed to get butts in seats. The director is a 26-year-old content creator named Curry Barker, who is part of the sketch comedy duo “That’s a Bad Idea,” which has over 1 million followers on YouTube and TikTok. Jason Blum, creator of BlumHouse Productions and producer of horror hits like “Get Out,” “Paranormal Activity” and “M3GAN,” only boarded “Obsession” as an executive producer after the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
John Nolte of Breitbart News is a longtime critic of Disney. Here’s what he had to say about this:
To be fair, because I don’t want to take anything away from Obsession, that movie is a legitimate phenomenon, the rarest of rarities where word-of-mouth is driving it to increase its box office over time, and is doing so after launching wide. This has only happened a handful of times in the 50-year-old history of wide releases. Obsession is making box office history, and that accomplishment deserves to be recognized and not plowed under as we gloat over the failure of the groomers at Disney.
Nevertheless, Obsession’s astonishing success is its own thing, as is The Mandalorian and Grogu’s deeply satisfying failure.
If the man-hating bigots at Disney hadn’t alienated, insulted, and dismissed Star Wars fans, the piece you are reading right now could’ve been about how both movies are breaking the bank.
Disney just burned too many bridges with movie audiences. They’re reaping what they’ve sown.
Mandalorian
Sounds like a cross between a mandarin orange and a DeLorean automobile
I watched the first two or three Star War films , that was so long ago, seems like it was in another galaxy, far far away.
Obsession showtime in my area theatre is 7:15 tonight. Planning on date night with my her.
I’ve NEVER seen a Star Wars movie.
I’ll take a bit of pride in saying that.
I think we are just a few years away from ordinary people making films in their garage with AI that are more successful than big movies from Sony or Paramount or Disney. The DIY stuff I see on YouTube is more heartfelt than anything the big studios are doing.
It’s a ‘Space Western’ per Wiki................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian
I’ve not seen any Star Wars films except the first one in 1977.................
I am not the target audience for Grogu, and certainly not for Obsession.
Still, I did go see Project Hail Mary and enjoyed it.
May Disney die. And I loved that the called them groomers.
$112,368,604 - Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu $78,357,650 - Obsession
Embarrassing for Disney, but a good article would include the actual numbers.
I well remember the indie, low-budget horror flick “The Blair Witch Project.” What a stinker that was! One of the worst films ever made. And it had all the same hype. It was so bad I still remember it 27 years later!
After that was another horrible indie dystopian stinker, “The Road,” which was ten years after stinker “Blair Witch.”
I tend to remember stinkers more than good films, maybe because I resent falling for the hype and wasting my money and time.
I saw the first one in 1977 and none after that................
A good example, to your point, is the “Backrooms” movie which is out in the theaters right now (and I am going to see this afternoon). A24 hired Kane Pixels as a Director to do a theatrical release based on his independent series of liminal space videos on YouTube, which were fantastic.
“The Road” was too sad of an ending..................
A cheap horror movie that makes a lot of money may help studios get back to real story telling, even if they use the medium of superheroes and Star Wars and other pop culture to tell that story.
There is no reason that good stories can’t be told.
I thought a real good Marvel story to make is where a Skrull, which are shape changers, and can assume the identity of anybody and the Avengers have to figure out which one of them might be the Skrull.
I’ll stick with Cowboy Bebop.
The trailer of Obession gives a sort of cautionary dating an AWFUL vibe.
One of the movies that DC cancelled, which should not have been cancelled, was the Aquaman offshoot, The Trench. It might have been a great horror type story line showing how they went from being Atlanteans to the horror monsters that live in the Trench.
The Fantastic Four comics, issues #89 through #93, the FF visit Kroll, the Skrull’s home planet after Ben Grimm, (Thing) is captured and forced to fight as a gladiator.
This all takes place in a 1930’s America Gangster land setting.
Probably one of the best FF story lines.
What Disney did to Star Wars is just disappointing.
In a few weeks Disney’s Toy Story franchise hits the theaters.
Have zero clue what it’s competing against, but if that doesn’t lead at the Box Office, that would be a shock.
They may have killed their Star Wars franchise, but some of those fans are probably also Toy Story fans so they’ll get them then.
And apparently they have something called Bluey in their stable that apparently is widely popular with little ones on TV so that’s a potential to milk it at movie theaters in the future.
Your neighbor with a uterus?
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