{"id":247181,"date":"2026-06-18T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/backrooms-sends-hollywood-running-to-reddit-for-new-ideas\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:06:45","slug":"backrooms-sends-hollywood-running-to-reddit-for-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/backrooms-sends-hollywood-running-to-reddit-for-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/17z5dWbjmh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/17z5dWbjmh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/THR\/status\/2067253681800577218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the success of \u2018The Backrooms\u2019, studio executives are are looking at sites like Reddit and YouTube for movie ideas. One agency veteran says that assistants at their agency have identified \u201ca bunch\u201d of subreddits and short stories that they think could lead to compelling ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost a real-time IP incubator of sorts, with moderators and communities that are cultivating these spaces where stories and fandoms can grow organically,\u201d says Jim Squires, chief marketing officer of Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>One of those stories on Reddit is being developed as a feature film produced by and starring Sydney Sweeney called I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/THR\/status\/2067253681800577218?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132489290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas https:\/\/t.co\/17z5dWbjmh \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 17, 2026 After the success of \u2018The Backrooms\u2019, studio executives are are looking at sites like Reddit and YouTube for movie ideas. One agency veteran says that assistants at their agency have identified \u201ca bunch\u201d of subreddits and short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}