How ‘Backrooms’ Producers Helped 20-Year-Old YouTuber Kane Parsons Create the Summer’s Most Surprising Box Office Smash

How ‘Backrooms’ Producers Helped 20-Year-Old YouTuber Kane Parsons Create the Summer’s Most Surprising Box Office Smash

When James Wan, the filmmaker behind “Insidious” and “Saw,” had his first Zoom meeting with Kane Parsons, the creator of the online phenom “Backrooms,” they were joined not by the YouTuber’s manager or agent, but by his dad. “We didn’t realize until we reached out that Kane was still in high school,” Wan admits. Parsons […]

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