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35x and 537x. Those are the budget multipliers for the current worldwide box office numbers for Backrooms and Obsession, respectively. Both films are low budget (Obsession especially so at $750K to Backrooms‘ $10MM) and yet dominated the box office through early summer, pulling in $350MM and $403MM globally, breezing past behemoth major studio releases like…
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READINGS: Film Noir: An Introduction by Mark Bould VIEWINGS: Double Indemnity (1944), Detour (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Vertigo (1958) We’re back baby! This go-round we’re looking at Film Noir. The reading in this case actually helped me understand why the idea of Film Noir had always been somewhat elusive to me. Mark Bould proposes that,…
Loosely Scripted 