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Shop of Horrors: How Talent Representation Firm Verve Became Hollywood’s Home for Successful Scares

When the box office grosses started rolling in this summer from Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” social media wags predicted what Hollywood would do next: raid every Reddit thread and low-budget YouTube channel for the next big digital creator turned auteur. In rapid succession, the major studio players greenlit splashy genre projects based […]

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When the box office grosses started rolling in this summer from Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” social media wags predicted what Hollywood would do next: raid every Reddit thread and low-budget YouTube channel for the next big digital creator turned auteur. In rapid succession, the major studio players greenlit splashy genre projects based […]

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According to Variety’s source item, Shop of Horrors: How Talent Representation Firm Verve Became Hollywood’s Home for Successful Scares, When the box office grosses started rolling in this summer from Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” social media wags predicted what Hollywood would do next: raid every Reddit thread and low-budget YouTube channel for the next big digital creator turned auteur. In rapid succession, the major studio players greenlit splashy genre projects based […]

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