Jason Blum

Jason Blum Biography

Jason Ferus Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer, and both the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. He won the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing The Normal Heart, and was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash.

Early life

Blum was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Shirley (Neilsen), an art professor, and Irving Blum, an independent art dealer. His mother was previously married to museum director Walter Hopps.

Career

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.

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.

Blumhouse Productions

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.

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.

Personal life

On July 14, 2012, Blum married journalist Lauren A.E. Schuker in Los Angeles.

Blum is of Jewish descent.

Filmography

Film

1995: Kicking and Screaming (associate)
2000: Hamlet (executive)
2002: The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina (executive)
2004: The Fever
2006: Griffin and Phoenix
2006: The Darwin Awards
2006: Graduation (executive)
2007: Paranormal Activity
2008: The Accidental Husband
2008: The Reader (co-executive)
2010: Tooth Fairy
2010: Insidious
2010: Paranormal Activity 2
2011: Paranormal Activity 3
2011: The FP (executive)
2012: The Babymakers
2012: Sinister
2012: Lawless (executive)
2012: The Lords of Salem
2012: The Bay
2012: Paranormal Activity 4
2013: Dark Skies
2013: The Purge
2013: The Green Inferno (executive)
2013: Insidious: Chapter 2
2013: Plush
2013: Best Night Ever
2014: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
2014: Whiplash
2014: 13 Sins (executive)
2014: Creep
2014: Not Safe for Work
2014: Oculus (executive)
2014: The Purge: Anarchy
2014: Unfriended (executive)
2014: The Town That Dreaded Sundown
2014: Jessabelle
2014: Ouija
2014: Mercy
2014: Stretch
2015: The Boy Next Door
2015: The Lazarus Effect
2015: Exeter (executive)
2015: Area 51
2015: Insidious: Chapter 3
2015: The Gallows
2015: The Gift
2015: Sinister 2
2015: Visions
2015: The Visit
2015: Curve
2015: Martyrs
2015: Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
2015: Jem and the Holograms
2016: The Veil
2016: Sleight (executive)
2016: In a Valley of Violence
2016: Hush
2016: The Darkness
2016: Lowriders
2016: The Purge: Election Year
2016: Viral
2016: The Belko Experiment (executive)
2016: Split
2016: Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016: Incarnate
2017: Get Out
2017: Amityville: The Awakening
2017: Stephanie
2017: The Keeping Hours
2017: Happy Death Day
2018: The Purge: The Island
2018: Halloween
2019: Glass

Television

2002: Hysterical Blindness (TV movie) (executive)
2009: Washingtonienne (TV pilot)
2012: The River (TV series, 8 episodes)
2013: Stranded (TV series, 6 episodes)
2014: The Normal Heart (TV movie) (executive)
2014: Ascension (TV miniseries) (executive)
2015: Eye Candy (TV series, 10 episodes) (executive)
2015: The Jinx (TV miniseries) (executive)
2015: Hellevator (TV series) (executive)
2016: Tremors (TV movie) (executive)

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