![]() ![]() ![]() Insanely protean and prolific, the married father of two has more than 10 TV shows and movies lined up this year alone, including Halloween, the direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 seminal slasher that negates everything that happened in the subsequent films (including the Rob Zombie reboots). (Just don’t remind him of the dreadful Jem and the Holograms by Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M Chu.) And never, never forget that the project is auteur-driven.īlum doesn’t just do horror he won an Emmy for producing the AIDS-themed drama The Normal Heart and received a Best Picture Oscar nom for Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash. Hire above-the-line talent that will work for scale. Keep the budgets under US$5 million by shooting in LA. (Total global tally: a whopping US$890 million!) These are just some of the labels thrown at film producer Jason Blum.Īs the founder and CEO of the Blumhouse Productions, Blum, 49, is behind some of the most successful horror movies in history, notably the found-footage shocker Paranormal Activity, which grossed US$194 million (S$267 mil) worldwide from a US$15,000 budget, and spawned five sequels. The Smartest Producer In Hollywood Right Now. His upcoming projects include the long overdue big screen return of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn M Night Shymalan’s Glass, a sequel to Split and Unbreakable and Fantasy Island, an adaption of the TV show, with Truth or Dare director Jeff Wadlow. ![]() Blum’s other franchises: Insidious, The Purge and Ouija. It spawned five sequels, and, collectively, the series made US$890 million. That took a toll psychologically.īlum’s breakout hit, Paranormal Activity, cost U$15,000 to make and grossed US$194 million worldwide. Alternatively taking you up and bringing you down. “ was very clever at getting people to kill themselves for him,” Blum recalls in Variety. Weinstein, whom Blum called “a bully”, once threw a lit cigarette at him over a botched acquisition deal. Before he started his business in 2000, Blum worked as an acquisition executive at Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films. The Tooth Fairy, a 2010 Dwayne Johnson comedy, was produced by Jason Blum. “But reminding people what the Ku Klux Klan is and was and how evil and dumb it is, in a clever way, can’t be done enough until there is no Ku Klux Klan.” “I don’t think a racist is going to see BlacKkKlansman and not be a racist anymore, right?” says Blum in Variety. The movie won the Grand Prize of the Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. ”īlum teamed up with Jordan Peele to produce BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee-directed true-crime thriller starring John David Washington - Denzel’s son - as an African-American cop who, in 1978, went undercover with the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white proxy (Adam Driver). Jamie, I had lunch with before the movie started. John, I met not for the first time, but for the first time on this movie in his office in a little bungalow in Los Angeles. Whenever we meet one of our heroes, I still get star-struck for sure. Midas touch: Jason Blum, the producer of Halloween, Get Out and The Purge films.Įven though Blum is a veteran producer, he still gets star-struck when meeting horror royalty like John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis. ![]()
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