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Courtesy of Verve 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 on internet lore and the fables that kept Gen Z awake at night as kids. The leadership at Verve, a talent and literary firm that has given its three-letter rivals a run for their money for almost 20 years, couldn’t help laughing.
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