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Jason Blum’s “Shark Tank” Appearance Leads to Blumhouse Joining Forces With The Murder Mystery Company

March 20, 2024 John Squires blumhouse, Jason Blum, Shark Tank, The Further

On a brand new episode of “Shark Tank” that aired this past Friday, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum appeared as a guest entrepreneur, forking over $350,000 for a stake in The Murder Mystery Company and American Immersion Theater. That partnership has now been officially announced with a Blumhouse press release this morning. The Murder Mystery Company is an […]

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A New Direction? Jason Blum Updates on the Future of Blumhouse’s ‘The Exorcist’ Franchise

March 7, 2024 John Squires Jason Blum, Movies, The Exorcist

It’s no secret that last year’s The Exorcist: Believer wasn’t as successful as Blumhouse and Universal hoped it would be, neither critically nor financially. Director David Gordon Green was initially on board to direct an entire trilogy of new movies in the franchise, with The Exorcist: Believer intended to be only the first film in […]

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Jason Blum Is Still Trying to Will a Blumhouse ‘Friday the 13th’ Movie into Existence

March 1, 2024 John Squires blumhouse, Friday the 13th, James Wan, Jason Blum, Movies

What’s going on with the Friday the 13th franchise? The saga has been on hold for several years now due to a messy legal issue, but Jason Voorhees is finally set to return in a brand new series from Bryan Fuller, A24 and Peacock titled “Crystal Lake.” It’s coming soon, possibly even later this year, […]

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Jason Blum Updates on ‘Spawn’ Movie; Predicting a 2025 Release

June 30, 2023 John Squires Jamie Foxx, Jason Blum, Movies, Spawn

What’s going on with Blumhouse’s Spawn movie, you may be wondering? It’s been a pattern with this project that small bits of news are followed by long periods of radio silence, so it’s no surprise that it’s been almost a year since we’ve gotten an update. Let’s recap. Back in October of last year, Spawn creator Todd […]

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‘The River’ – Rediscovering the ‘Paranormal Activity’ Director’s Found Footage TV Series

February 7, 2023 Paul Lê Bruce Greenwood, DreamWorks, Editorials, Jason Blum, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joe Anderson, Michael R. Perry, Oren Peli, Steven Spielberg, The River, The River (ABC TV), Thomas Kretschmann, TV

In the finale of the 2012 television series The River, a character says what everyone else is thinking: “It’s never gonna let us go.” This foreboding last line is, of course, in reference to the show’s sinuous and uncanny namesake. From there the audience is left to wonder what happened to the crew of the […]

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James Wan and Jason Blum in Talks to Merge Their Companies into One Mega Horror Powerhouse

November 16, 2022 John Squires featured, James Wan, Jason Blum, Movies, topnews

A mere 24 hours after it was announced that Walter Hamada is in charge of a brand new horror venture over at Paramount, more huge news in the horror world has dropped tonight. Variety reports that James Wan and Jason Blum are in “advanced talks” to merge Wan’s Atomic Monster and Blum’s Blumhouse Productions, the […]

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Jason Blum Announces ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie Director and Production Date

October 5, 2022 Meagan Navarro blumhouse, five nights at freddy's, fnaf, Jason Blum, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Movies

Blumhouse and Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon have been developing a film adaptation of the games for quite a while now, with producer Jason Blum chronicling its long road to production, progress, and obstacles along the way. But the movie and its terrifying animatronics will finally come to life soon, based on Blum’s latest announcement. Blum tweets today […]

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Jason Blum Teases ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Involvement [Image]

August 9, 2022 John Squires five nights at freddy's, Jason Blum, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Movies

Blumhouse and Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon have been developing a film adaptation of the games for quite a while now, with producer Jason Blum being up front about the team’s troubles with cracking the story. But it seems the movie may finally be coming to life here in 2022, if an interesting tweet from Blum this […]

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‘Paranormal Activity 8’: Next Movie Reportedly Eyeing 2023 Release

August 8, 2022 John Squires Jason Blum, Movies, Paranormal Activity

Once upon a time, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension was positioned as the final film in the found footage franchise, but that was before Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin brought the franchise back to life on Paramount+ last Halloween. Next of Kin was the seventh installment in the franchise, and it looks like the eighth […]

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Jason Blum Believes He Could Get Robert Englund to Play Freddy Krueger One More Time

June 20, 2022 John Squires A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason Blum, Movies, Robert Englund

Jason Blum has made it clear many times over the years that he’d love to bring the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises into the Blumhouse family alongside Halloween and The Exorcist, which is certainly always a possibility in the future. The Friday rights are still tangled up in a legal mess, […]

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Third ‘Happy Death Day’ Still in the Cards, Teases Jason Blum

January 17, 2022 Brad Miska Christopher Landon, Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2 U, Jason Blum, Movies

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum took to Twitter this weekend to answer fan questions, and while most want to know more about Halloween Ends, the Happy Death Day franchise is still a popular topic. Back in 2017, Christopher Landon‘s explosively fun Happy Death Day massacred the box office with a whopping $125M, a huge global gross […]

Projecting Gay Panic in Patrick Brice’s ‘Creep’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

November 22, 2021 Trace Thurman Creep, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Jason Blum, Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Podcasts

Creep Evan Hansen. After spending Halloween shacking up with the colorful characters in Clue, we kicked off November with a discussion of a seminal queer vampire text in The Lost Boys and revisited Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More With Feeling” on its 20th anniversary. Now, we’re getting a little…..creepy with Patrick Brice‘s exceptional film Creep! In the […]

Jason Blum Teases That He’s “Not Saying Goodbye” to the ‘Happy Death Day’ Franchise

October 14, 2021 John Squires Christopher Landon, Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Jason Blum, Movies

The Happy Death Day franchise is on hold right now, and whether that’s temporary or permanent is very much up in the air at the moment. Christopher Landon had been planning a “bonkers” third and final installment for his franchise, tentatively titled Happy Death Day To Us, but whether or not it actually happens is entirely up to […]

Jason Blum Updates on the TV Series Adaptation of Leigh Whannell’s ‘Upgrade’

October 13, 2021 John Squires Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, TV

Blumhouse Television and UCP are adapting Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi thriller Upgrade into a television series for Whannell to potentially direct, we had learned last year. The series, which Whannell co-created and will executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter), picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an […]

Jason Blum Updates on ‘The Wolfman’ Starring Ryan Gosling and Teases More Universal Monster Movies

October 13, 2021 John Squires blumhouse, Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, Movies, Ryan Gosling, The Wolfman, universal monsters

It was announced back in 2020 that Universal was prepping a new take on The Wolfman, with Ryan Gosling attached to star as the title character/classic Universal Studios monster. Last we heard, Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man) was in negotiations to direct the film for Blumhouse, though it’s been well over a year since we’ve heard a […]