Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster Have Officially Joined Forces to Create a Horror Megapower

John Squires

Originally announced over one year ago, the deal has now been inked. “Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have officially joined forces,” Jason Blum announced on Twitter tonight.

This means that James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions are now under the same roof – it was described last year as “a mega house of chills and thrills” – and the combined company has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures.

THR details, “Under the deal, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will work as separate labels and retain creative independence, with a three-way ownership structure split by Blum, the majority owner; Wan; and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.”

Variety had reported back in November 2022, “Atomic Monster is expecting to utilize the existing Blumhouse infrastructure to further scale their activities in film, TV and new content areas. The idea behind the alliance is to increase the output from each side. They also hope to expand into horror-related games, live entertainment and audio.”

Furthermore, Variety had noted in their report, Blum is said to be “pushing for Blumhouse to make at least eight horror movies for release in theaters each year, up from the three or four it has historically delivered. And he wants to make another slate of horror flicks for Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. Blumhouse also makes television series.”

Stay tuned for more on this massive joint venture as we learn it.

Blumhouse and Wan’s Atomic Monster have partnered several times in the past on various different horror projects, with their co-produced Night Swim in theaters this Friday.

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