Jason Blum

Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, is a three-time Academy Award®-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer. Blumhouse is a film, television and gaming company regarded as the driving force in horror.

Following its merger with James Wan’s Atomic Monster in January 2024, the combined companies are responsible for nearly $9 Billion in worldwide box office, and have represented nearly 50% of the horror market in the last ten years.

Together the two companies have produced nearly 250 movies and television series, including the most successful horror franchise in history with the Conjuring Universe, making Blum and Wan the most prolific and successful independent producers of the last decade.

In film, Blum has produced the lucrative, iconic, genre franchises like Halloween, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Happy Death Day, Sinister and The Purge, among several others. The company’s upcoming film releases include Wolf Man from Leigh Whannell, along with sequels to Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Black Phone & M3GAN, among other film titles. Blum’s additional feature film credits include, but are not limited to: Glass, Split and The Visit from M. Night Shyamalan; Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash; Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman; and Get Out from Jordan Peele. Wan’s Atomic Monster has produced its own successful film franchises including The Conjuring, Aquaman, Annabelle, The Nun and Saw and Wan himself has directed Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious, Aquaman, Furious 7, Malignant, and many more.

In television, the combined companies operate in genre and provocative programming from acclaimed scripted and unscripted series and documentaries. Blumhouse Television’s high-profile slate of series includes the global #1 hit franchise Worst Roommate Ever and Worst Ex Ever for Netflix, along with upcoming series The Bondsman, starring Kevin Bacon, from creator Grainger David and showrunner Erik Oleson; Scarpetta, from Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling book series, which will star Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, who are both producers on the series, with Liz Sarnoff showrunning; and The Sticky, starring Margo Martindale from creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro and producers Jamie Lee Curtis and Megamix’s Jonathan Levine, all for Prime Video.

The indie studio has also earned critical acclaim, including a Golden Globe nomination for Ethan Hawke for his performance in The Good Lord Bird; a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for Sharp Objects; a Golden Globe award for Russell Crowe’s performance in The Loudest Voice; and Emmy awards for its productions of The Normal Heart and The Jinx, for HBO.

Atomic Monster’s television slate has included the series Swamp Thing for DC Universe, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles for Netflix, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom for Max, and I Know What You Did Last Summer for Prime Video. Upcoming series include Teacup, starring Yvonne Strahoski and Scott Speedman and executive produced by Wan and Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone) for Peacock, Obsession, from writers and executive producers Lisa Zwerling (The Rook, ER) and Karyn Usher (The Rook, Prison Break) for Prime Video, an untitled espionage thriller from creator/writer Thomas Brandon (Legacies) and starring and executive produced by Simu Liu for Peacock, and Robocop for Prime Video with Wan serving as executive producer and Peter Ocko (Moonhaven) writing, executive producing and serving as showrunner.

Jason Blum has been recognized by TIME magazine’s 100 list of the world’s most influential people and has appeared several times on Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment List.” In 2019 he received the Special Achievement honors from the African American Film Critics Association, the largest body of black film critics in the world. In 2016, he received the Producer of the Year Award at CinemaCon. In addition, Blum was named to the Annenberg Initiative’s first-ever Inclusion List as one of the Top Inclusive Producers from 2019-2022, with three films appearing on the list of Top 100 Most Inclusive Films.