Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Director of Backrooms Just Became the Youngest Director Ever to Have a #1 Movie

A rising filmmaker...just become the youngest director ever...to have a #1 movie...at the global box office. So, just how young is he?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Siciny, Tanya, when you were twenty years old? And what
were you doing on your weekends?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
On my weekends, I was probably a board opp being
because that was an intern.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So you're running the controls at a radio station.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I was, yes, twenty years old.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, let me tell you about Caine Parsons. Caine Parsons
just spent his past weekend writing himself in the cinematic history.
He became the youngest filmmaker ever, just shive twenty one
years old to open a number one movie thanks to
the Smash back Rooms.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
And not only did his horror movie take the top spot,
it was an absolute beast, raking in one hundred and
eighteen million globally, which is A twenty four's biggest opening
weekend of all time.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
And they actually made it for only ten million dollars,
so it's already made almost twelve times what it cost
in one weekend. And despite all that, he's still committed
to making youtubes.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Which is where he posted his short that became the
basis of this movie.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Another case of a YouTuber successfully jump into the big screen,
but nobody has done it to this degree, and no
filmmaker ever has had a number one movie this young
until Kane Tarson's back Rooms is now playing.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's direct from Hollywood.