Who? That’s the creator and showrunner (real name Cooper Smith Goodwin) behind The Amazing Digital Circus, the latest YouTube-incubated phenomenon to hit big in theaters. His extended final episode, dubbed The Last Act, cost about 20.4 million domestic in about 2,200 theaters over four days, prompting distributor Fathom Entertainment to extend a planned stunt for two weeks.
Crazy fact: The Amazing Digital Circus along with Obsession and Backrooms, the so-called “YouTuber movies” have generated more than $300 million domestic in the past month, per Screendollars.
99.1 minutes
Average time spent on YouTube each day per account in 2025, up from 87.2 minutes in 2024, while Netflix dropped from 100.5 to 93.4 minutes. [Digital i]