Blum
House productions
Blum House productions are an
American production company, producing mainly horror movies. Founded by Jason
Blum in the year 2000, it is a modern horror movie production company that
produces low budget movies in the horror genre.
Some notable work of Blum House
productions includes the Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Insidious
Franchises. However, despite producing mainly movies in the horror genre, Blum
House Productions also dip their feet in producing movies in various other
genres. For example, The Reader (2008) which is a German-American romantic
drama film based on a German 1995 novel with the same name.
Blum House productions began drawing in large profits with the
horror movie franchise Paranormal Activity (2007) in 2009. Paranormal Activity is
an American independent found footage supernatural horror film, which was
produced independently for $15,000 by Oren Peli and Jason Blum (founder of Blum
House Productions). However, this film was bought by Paramount Pictures, who
made some modifications to the film and the film was released once again in
2009. Despite, being originally made with $15,000, it engrossed a total of $193
million worldwide. The success of Paranormal Activity (2007) marked the
beginning of success for Blum House Productions, who continued to produce
further horror movie successes, such as Sinister (2012) that engrossed a worldwide
gross profit over $77 million, with a budget of only $3 million.
Blum House productions model is said to produce movies independently
and release them wide via the studio system, according to many stories. However, currently Blum House Productions
have a first look deal with Universal Pictures and have produced together The
Purge (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and more. Within the television medium,
Blum House Productions have a first look deal also with Lionsgate and also
opened the Blum House of Horrors interactive haunted house experience in 2012
for Halloween.
In May 2016 it was announced that Blum
House productions including Miramax and Trancas would be co-financing the
production of the new 10th Halloween film in the popular horror Halloween
franchise.
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