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Dementia Turns to Horror In the Russo Brothers-Produced ‘Relic’
The Russo brothers’ (directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier) AGBO is to finance and handle international sales on Relic, a horror drama with Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island) set to start shooting in Victoria, Australia next week, reports ScreenDaily.
The film is about three generations of women who are haunted by a manifestation of aged dementia that takes over their family home.
Natalie Erika James, who won the Australian Writers Guild’s Awgie Award for her 2017 short Creswick, makes her feature debut. Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote are co-starring.
James and Christian White wrote the script.
The feature is being produced by Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Melbourne’s Carver Films and Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker of New York-based Nine Stories.
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo and Mike Larocca are executive producers and AGBO is financing with Screen Australia and Film Victoria. Australian distribution will be handled by Umbrella Entertainment.
Curry Barker’s Obsession has been on a generational run at the box office these last several weeks, with the incredible word-of-mouth driving the box office totals higher and higher and higher with each passing week. After a debut weekend of $17 million, Obsession made a whopping $23 million in its second weekend, and then scared up $26.4 million in its third weekend. In its fourth weekend, Obsession just scared up another $25.6 million in the U.S.!
Deadline notes in a report this morning, “Obsession reps the biggest fourth weekend ever for a horror movie ahead of 1999’s Blair Witch Project which did $24.3M.”
Worldwide, Obsession is now the highest grossing movie in history for Focus Features. The current worldwide total is $224.7 million, while the domestic total is $152.1 million.
That also makes Obsession the highest grossing horror movie of 2026, far exceeding the $207.9 million worldwide total ($121.9 million domestically) of Scream 7 earlier this year!
Yes, the highest grossing horror movie of 2026 is an ORIGINAL HORROR MOVIE!
The best part? The production budget for Obsession was just $750,000, with Focus Features acquiring the film for a reported $15 million. Even when you factor in the marketing spend and the fact that theaters get their own sizable cut, this one is a MASSIVE win for Focus.
From A24 and director Kane Parsons, Backrooms is already nipping at the heels of that record after just a couple weeks in release. The current domestic total of Backrooms is $135 million, while the worldwide total is now sitting at a very healthy $212.6 million. That means Backrooms has also already surpassed Scream 7, and may soon pass Obsession as well.
In Curry Barker’s theatrical debut Obsession, after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Inde Navarrette (“Superman & Lois”) and Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”) star.
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