YouTube Stars Sam and Colby Talk ‘Legends of the Paranormal’ Cinemark Release Expansion (EXCLUSIVE)

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Katcy Stephan Paranormal investigators Sam Golbach and Colby Brock have already conjured YouTube success, scaring up more than 13 million subscribers on their popular channel.

Now, the spirited duo is chasing another elusive goal: becoming movie stars. Golbach and Brock (“Sam and Colby” to their fans) made their first foray into the theatrical space a year ago, when they releasing an episode of their series “A Week at the Conjuring House” in October 2023, two days before its YouTube premiere.

That sneak was shown in 168 Cinemark theaters across the U.S. “Over the last four or five years, we’ve created feature-length videos for YouTube,” Golbach tells Variety. “We approached Cinemark last year to see if we could put one of our YouTube videos into theaters to basically have a test project, like a proof of concept.” After an immediate sell-out, they charted a course for their next project — and thought even bigger.

The duo’s new 97-minute film, “Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal,” is heading exclusively to theaters, but this time on a much larger scale. “We went to Mount Wilson Ranch in Nevada, and we were in search of something completely different: cryptids, skinwalkers and aliens and ghosts as well,” Brock says of the film. “We’ve never stepped into that mythical realm or world with our fan base, and so it’s gonna bring like, a whole new light to Sam and Colby and the adventure that we went on.” While “The Legends of the Paranormal” was originally scheduled for a three-day limited window across 260 Cinemark screens, overwhelming fan demand prompted the movie chain to expand its release plans to 350 screens for a full-week schedule, beginning Oct.