- be Curry Barker - grow up making YouTube videos - nobody in Hollywood knows your name - write, direct, and edit a horror film called Obsession - budget: $750,000 - premiere it at TIFF's Midnight Madness section in September 2025 - Focus Features beats out A24 and Neon to buy it for $15 million - they paid 20x your entire budget just for the rights - release it May 15 2026 - open to $17.2 million modest - weekend two: jump. biggest second weekend spike in horror history. - weekend three: grow again - weekend four: -7% drop. biggest fourth weekend ever for a horror film. - pass Get Out, Us, The Conjuring: Last Rites in a single weekend - become Focus Features' highest grossing film ever domestically and worldwide - beat Downton Abbey's $194.7M. beat Five Nights At Freddy's $291.6M worldwide. - cross $300 million worldwide - 400x your production budget - CinemaScore: A- - Rotten Tomatoes: 94% - still in theaters Curry Barker made a $750,000 horror film and Hollywood spent $300 million to watch it. That's not a box office story. That's a mandate.

@skumWgmi A mandate? What the hell does that even mean? Sounds like AI slip to me