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James Wan to Produce Survival Horror Film ‘Doomtown’ from ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Writer

December 9, 2025 Alex DiVincenzo Atomic Monster, blumhouse, Chris Thomas Devlin, Doomtown, James Wan, Jason Blum, Movies

Divide/Conquer — the production company whose credits include M3GAN, Freaky, Heart Eyes, Totally Killer, and Black Phone 2 — has signed a first-look deal with Blumhouse-Atomic Monster. The first production being developing with the studio is Doomtown, a high-concept survival horror film written by Chris Thomas Devlin (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022, Cobweb). The logline is being […]

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James Wan to Produce Survival Horror Film ‘Doomtown’ from ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Writer

December 9, 2025 Alex DiVincenzo Atomic Monster, blumhouse, Chris Thomas Devlin, Doomtown, James Wan, Jason Blum, Movies

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Jason Blum Says James Wan Will Be “Hugely Involved” in the ‘SAW’ Franchise’s Future

October 9, 2025 John Squires James Wan, Jason Blum, Movies, Saw

The SAW franchise is now in the hands of Blumhouse in the wake of Saw X, with the company recently acquiring the franchise rights from Twisted Pictures. Blumhouse has acquired “the library, the ten previous movies, all of the ancillaries, roller coaster, escape rooms, all of it” as part of the deal, with a new […]

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“I Will Never Give Up”: Jason Blum Says ‘Friday the 13th’ and ‘Elm Street’ Are Still His White Whales

October 8, 2025 John Squires blumhouse, Jason Blum, Movies

If Jason Blum had his way, he’d be acquiring all the big horror franchises like Infinity Stones. But while Blumhouse has generated multiple new franchises of their own, including Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and The Black Phone, the only white whales that Blum has been able to get his hands on thus far are […]

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‘Horror’s New Wave’ Is a Detailed Deep Dive into Blumhouse’s First 15 Years [Review]

September 24, 2025 Daniel Kurland blumhouse, Books, horror's new wave, Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse, Insidious, Jason Blum, Reviews, Simon & Schuster, Sinister, the purge

‘Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse’ is an excellent distillation of one of horror’s biggest movers and shakers that’s a must-read for film aficionados. If one were to name some of the biggest horror movies of the past two decades, it’s not uncommon for titles like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Get Out, The Invisible Man, […]

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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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