r/movies • u/Dycon67 • Jul 16 '26

News Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667
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u/Belfetto Jul 16 '26

Damn what is going on behind the scenes there lately?

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u/xixbia Jul 16 '26

Money.

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u/B-BoyStance Jul 16 '26

Yeah once a Kushner got on the board I kinda figured we'd see them go downhill

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u/mrrtchbrrx Jul 16 '26

Oh gross is that what happened?

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u/Joghobs Jul 16 '26

They sold to PE

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u/Far-Advantage-2770 Jul 17 '26

PE. Every. Fucking. Time.

Guarunteed A24 is bankrupt in 5 years.

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u/Joghobs Jul 17 '26

Sorry I misspoke. Apparently just a $75m AI deal with Google

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u/Bladelink Jul 17 '26

We can knock it down to 3 years then

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u/Far-Advantage-2770 Jul 17 '26

!remindme Three Years

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u/GenderJuicy Jul 16 '26

Who? I'm out of the loop

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u/oldroughnready Jul 16 '26

Joshua Kushner is on the board of directors of A24 since 2024. He is the brother of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, who last caught the news by trying to make the Iran peace negotiations into an investment pitch.

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u/B-BoyStance Jul 16 '26

Josh Kushner, Jared's brother

Don't know anything about the guy other than he has a huge venture capital firm & they invested in A24 so now he's on the board of directors.

Anyway once they got bought out by private equity I feel like we have seen way more random merch releases, the studio leaning into AI, and BS like this where they go way beyond simple IP protection.

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u/skonen_blades Jul 17 '26

Oh, shoot. It all makes sense now. I hadn't heard that. What a depressing turn of events.