Jason Blum

✎ About Jason Blum

Who is it?: Producer

Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation: Film producer television producer

Years active: 1995–present

Spouse(s): Lauren A.E. Schuker (m. 2012)

Jason Blum

Jason Blum was born on February 20, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, United States, is Producer. Emmy award winning producer, Jason Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, a multi-media production company that has pioneered a new model of studio filmmaking- producing high-quality micro-budget films. Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures and has produced the highly-profitable Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, and Sinister franchises which have grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide on combined budgets under $40 million. Blumhouse's model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000 and grossed close to $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in Hollywood history.Blumhouse's award-winning projects include The Normal Heart and Whiplash. BH Tilt is a new label from the company dedicated to movies from Blumhouse and other filmmakers that will be released across multiple-platforms taking advantage of new distribution strategies.In television, Blum won an Emmy for producing HBO's The Normal Heart. Blumhouse's shows include Ascension (Syfy), Eye Candy (MTV), and South of Hell (WEtv) and the division's development slate includes Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects with eOne and an un-scripted show with Mike Darnell. In addition to The Normal Heart, Blumhouse previously executive produced Stranded for Syfy and The River for ABC.Blumhouse has also produced a variety of live-events including The Blumhouse of Horrors, haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, The Purge: Fear the Night, a live-event inspired by the backstory to the feature film and The Purge: Breakout, an immersive escape game experience.Before Blumhouse, Blum served as co-head of the Acquisitions and Co-Productions department at Miramax Films in New York. At Miramax, he was instrumental in acquiring over 50 films including The Others, Smoke Signals, A Walk On the Moon and The House of Yes.Blum has produced over 75 films and TV series throughout his career. His credits also include: The Reader, for which Kate Winslet won an Academy Award; Hysterical Blindness, starring Uma Thurman, which aired on HBO and garnered Thurman a Golden Globe Award; and Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke, Bill Murray, Sam Shepard and Kyle MacLachlan.Blum began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte theater company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke.
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Popular As	Jason Blum
Occupation	Producer
Age	55 years old
Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Born	February 20, 1969 ( Los Angeles, California, United States)
Birthday	February 20
Town/City	Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality	United States

🌙 Zodiac

Jason Blum’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Jason Blum was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.

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Biography/Timeline

1991

Blum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as executive Producer and later as independent Producer for Warner Bros. He also was working as producing Director at Ethan Hawke's Malaparte Theater Company. Blum is a 1991 graduate of Vassar College.

1995

He obtained financing for his first film as Producer, Kicking and Screaming (1995), after receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin, who endorsed the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executives.

2000

In 2000, he founded Blumhouse Productions, which specializes in producing micro-budget movies. Some of the movies produced by Blum have been highly profitable. The horror film Paranormal Activity was produced for $15,000 and earned nearly $200 million. NPR's Planet Money did a special podcast about how Blum's production house gets its success.

2010

Blum also produced Insidious (2010), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), and Creep (2014), all of which became potential franchises. In 2014, he served as an executive Producer on the television film The Normal Heart, which went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, and the drama film Whiplash, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

2012

On July 14, 2012, Blum married Journalist Lauren A.E. Schuker in Los Angeles in a Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness ceremony.