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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Blumhouse founder Jason Blum took to Twitter this weekend to answer fan questions, and while most want to know more about Halloween Ends, the Happy Death Day franchise is still a popular topic. Back in 2017, Christopher Landon‘s explosively fun Happy Death Day massacred the box office with a whopping $125M, a huge global gross […]
Creep Evan Hansen. After spending Halloween shacking up with the colorful characters in Clue, we kicked off November with a discussion of a seminal queer vampire text in The Lost Boys and revisited Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More With Feeling” on its 20th anniversary. Now, we’re getting a little…..creepy with Patrick Brice‘s exceptional film Creep! In the […]