
Jason Blum
Highest Rated: 100% Haunters: The Art of the Scare (2017)
Lowest Rated: 0% Best Night Ever (2013)
Birthday: Feb 20, 1969
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Responsible for several of the most profitable films in Hollywood history, Emmy-winning producer Jason Blum helped to revolutionize the horror genre with a low-budget but money-spinning formula which yielded hits such as "Paranormal Activity" (2007), "Insidious" (2010) and "The Purge" (2013). Born in Los Angeles, CA in 1969 to artistic parents, Blum graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Economics and Film before landing senior roles at Ethan Hawke's Malaparte Theater Company and Miramax Films' Acquisitions department. Blum managed to source the funding for his first production, Noah Baumbach's directorial debut "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), thanks to an endorsement letter from family friend Steve Martin, and went onto add Shakespeare adaptation "Hamlet" (2000), TV movie "Hysterical Blindness" (HBO, 2002) and summer camp documentary "Stagedoor" (2006) to his credits before hitting it big with "Paranormal Activity" (2007), a found-footage horror which cost just $15000 to make but made an astonishing $200 million at the box office. The film was also the first to be released by Blumhouse Productions, the company Blum had founded in 2000, spawned numerous hit sequels and provided the model for several other hit franchises including "Insidious" (2010), "Sinister" (2012) and "The Purge" (2013). Blum then moved into television with the likes of supernatural action adventure "The River" (ABC, 2012), paranormal reality series "Stranded" (Syfy, 2013) and sci-fi miniseries "Ascension" (Syfy, 2014), later winning Emmys for his production work on AIDS crisis drama "The Normal Heart" (HBO, 2014) and compelling crime documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst" (HBO, 2015). Blum also continued to diversify in his big-screen work, picking up an Oscar nomination for "Whiplash" (2014), and adding comedy "Stretch" (2014), thriller "The Gift" (2015) and musical fantasy "Jem and the Holograms" (2015) to his filmography, while still shaping the world of horror with hits such as "Ouija" (2015), "Unfriended" (2015) and "The Visit" (2015).
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity 7 | Producer | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black as Night | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Manor | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forever Purge | Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tentacles | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Halloween Kills | Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madres | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bingo | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
48% | No Score Yet | The Craft: Legacy | Producer | - | 2020 |
40% | No Score Yet | You Should Have Left | Producer | - | 2020 |
61% | No Score Yet | Nocturne | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Delivered | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
100% | No Score Yet | A Secret Love | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
49% | No Score Yet | Evil Eye | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
57% | No Score Yet | The Hunt | Producer | $5.3M | 2020 |
83% | No Score Yet | Freaky | Producer | $8.8M | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Boy | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
91% | No Score Yet | The Invisible Man | Producer | $64.3M | 2020 |
7% | No Score Yet | Blumhouse's Fantasy Island | Producer | $26.4M | 2020 |
73% | No Score Yet | Black Box | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
38% | No Score Yet | Black Christmas | Producer | $10.4M | 2019 |
71% | No Score Yet | Happy Death Day 2U | Producer | $28M | 2019 |
93% | No Score Yet | Us | Producer | $175M | 2019 |
37% | No Score Yet | Glass | Producer | $111M | 2019 |
95% | No Score Yet | Sweetheart | Producer | - | 2019 |
0% | No Score Yet | The Gallows Act II | Producer | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Liberty: Mother of Exiles | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
13% | No Score Yet | Prey | Producer | - | 2019 |
69% | No Score Yet | Adopt a Highway | Producer | - | 2019 |
55% | No Score Yet | Ma | Producer | $45.3M | 2019 |
42% | No Score Yet | Don't Let Go | Producer | $5.2M | 2019 |
0% | No Score Yet | Delirium | Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Year, New You | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
44% | No Score Yet | The Lie | Producer | - | 2018 |
56% | No Score Yet | The First Purge | Producer | $68.9M | 2018 |
88% | No Score Yet | Upgrade | Producer | $11.8M | 2018 |
69% | No Score Yet | Stockholm | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
60% | No Score Yet | Benji | Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven in Heaven | Producer | - | 2018 |
33% | No Score Yet | Insidious: The Last Key | Producer | $67.3M | 2018 |
60% | No Score Yet | Unfriended: Dark Web | Producer | $8.8M | 2018 |
16% | No Score Yet | Blumhouse's Truth or Dare | Producer | $40.7M | 2018 |
79% | No Score Yet | Halloween | Producer | $159.5M | 2018 |
75% | No Score Yet | This Is Home: A Refugee Story | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pooka | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
100% | No Score Yet | Bathtubs Over Broadway | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
53% | No Score Yet | Bloodline | Producer | - | 2018 |
96% | No Score Yet | BlacKkKlansman | Producer | $48.6M | 2018 |
71% | No Score Yet | Happy Death Day | Producer | $55.7M | 2017 |
30% | No Score Yet | Amityville: The Awakening | Producer | $742 | 2017 |
100% | No Score Yet | Haunters: The Art of the Scare | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
80% | No Score Yet | The Keeping Hours | Producer | - | 2017 |
98% | No Score Yet | Get Out | Producer | $176M | 2017 |
100% | No Score Yet | Creep 2 | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stephanie | Producer | - | 2017 |
56% | No Score Yet | The Purge: Election Year | Producer | $79M | 2016 |
23% | No Score Yet | Birth of the Dragon | Executive Producer | $6.9M | 2016 |
50% | No Score Yet | Viral | Producer | - | 2016 |
57% | No Score Yet | Lowriders | Producer | $6.2M | 2016 |
100% | No Score Yet | Alive and Kicking | Executive Producer | $67.6K | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Veil | Producer | - | 2016 |
82% | No Score Yet | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Producer | $34.9M | 2016 |
77% | No Score Yet | Split | Producer | $138.1M | 2016 |
77% | No Score Yet | In a Valley of Violence | Producer | $50.4K | 2016 |
3% | No Score Yet | The Darkness | Producer | $10.7M | 2016 |
17% | No Score Yet | Incarnate | Producer | $4.8M | 2016 |
93% | No Score Yet | Hush | Producer | - | 2016 |
78% | No Score Yet | Sleight | Executive Producer | $3.9M | 2016 |
12% | No Score Yet | The Boy Next Door | Producer | $35.4M | 2015 |
14% | No Score Yet | Area 51 | Producer | $7.6K | 2015 |
14% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | Producer | $18.3M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curve | Producer | - | 2015 |
16% | No Score Yet | Sinister 2 | Producer | $27.7M | 2015 |
68% | No Score Yet | The Visit | Producer | $65.1M | 2015 |
19% | No Score Yet | Visions | Producer | - | 2015 |
91% | No Score Yet | The Gift | Producer | $43.8M | 2015 |
89% | No Score Yet | How to Dance in Ohio | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
16% | No Score Yet | The Lazarus Effect | Producer | $25.8M | 2015 |
14% | No Score Yet | The Gallows | Producer | $22.8M | 2015 |
22% | No Score Yet | Jem and the Holograms | Producer | $2M | 2015 |
57% | No Score Yet | Insidious: Chapter 3 | Producer | $52.2M | 2015 |
62% | No Score Yet | Unfriended | Executive Producer | $32.4M | 2014 |
94% | No Score Yet | Whiplash | Producer | $13.2M | 2014 |
66% | No Score Yet | The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Producer | - | 2014 |
6% | No Score Yet | Ouija | Producer | $50.8M | 2014 |
89% | No Score Yet | Creep | Producer | - | 2014 |
94% | No Score Yet | The Normal Heart | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
88% | No Score Yet | Stretch | Producer | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mercy | Producer | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mockingbird | Producer | - | 2014 |
28% | No Score Yet | Jessabelle | Producer | - | 2014 |
39% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones | Producer | $32.5M | 2014 |
57% | No Score Yet | The Purge: Anarchy | Producer | $71.5M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Not Safe for Work | Producer | - | 2014 |
39% | No Score Yet | Insidious: Chapter 2 | Producer | $83.6M | 2013 |
41% | No Score Yet | Dark Skies | Producer | $17.4M | 2013 |
33% | No Score Yet | Plush | Producer | $2.8K | 2013 |
0% | No Score Yet | Best Night Ever | Producer | - | 2013 |
39% | No Score Yet | The Purge | Producer | - | 2013 |
74% | No Score Yet | Oculus | Executive Producer | $27.7M | 2013 |
38% | No Score Yet | The Green Inferno | Executive Producer | $7.2M | 2013 |
63% | No Score Yet | Sinister | Producer | $48.1M | 2012 |
46% | No Score Yet | The Lords of Salem | Producer | $1.2M | 2012 |
66% | No Score Yet | Lawless | Executive Producer | $37.3M | 2012 |
8% | No Score Yet | The Babymakers | Producer | $5.2K | 2012 |
76% | No Score Yet | The Bay | Producer | - | 2012 |
23% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity 4 | Producer | $53.9M | 2012 |
50% | No Score Yet | The FP | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
66% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity 3 | Producer | $104M | 2011 |
17% | No Score Yet | Tooth Fairy | Producer | $60M | 2010 |
58% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity 2 | Producer | $84.7M | 2010 |
66% | No Score Yet | Insidious | Producer | $54M | 2010 |
6% | No Score Yet | The Accidental Husband | Producer | - | 2008 |
83% | No Score Yet | Paranormal Activity | Producer | $107.9M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Griffin and Phoenix | Producer | - | 2006 |
25% | No Score Yet | The Darwin Awards | Producer | - | 2006 |
65% | No Score Yet | Stagedoor | Executive Producer | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fever | Producer | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy Six | Producer | - | 2003 |
73% | No Score Yet | Hysterical Blindness | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina | Executive Producer | - | 2002 |
59% | No Score Yet | Hamlet | Executive Producer | $1.6M | 2000 |
TV
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98% | 70% | The Good Lord Bird | Executive Producer | 2020 |
64% | 29% | A Wilderness of Error | Executive Producer | 2020 |
14% | 72% | Betaal | Executive Producer | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sacred Lies | Executive Producer | 2020 2018 |
42% | 73% | The Purge | Executive Producer | 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 0% | No One Saw a Thing | Executive Producer | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice | Executive Producer | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2019 |
92% | 82% | Sharp Objects | Executive Producer | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 Deadly Days | Executive Producer | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hellevator | Executive Producer | 2015-2016 |
0% | 44% | South of Hell | Executive Producer | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ascension | Executive Producer | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranded | Executive Producer | 2013 |
63% | 61% | The River | Executive Producer | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | FREE SHOWTIME: The Loudest Voice | Executive Producer |
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