"Backrooms" in its second week in theaters reached $213 million worldwide and is A24's highest-grossing movie ever in what could be a new phase for the distributor. At the time, it looked like Alex Garland’s “Civil War” would be the face of the new A24 , the one that didn’t pursue potential sale offers and instead raised a big equity investment to make films that were more commercial while still adhering to the distributor’s mark of taste, subversiveness, and quality. The boutique studio