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After nearly 40 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival may be pulling up stakes. With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a…

Following their collaboration on horror pic Imaginary, Lionsgate and Blumhouse are partnering again, this time to develop and produce a new take on The Blair Witch Project. This will be the first film in a multi-picture pact with Blumhouse reimagining horror classics from the Lionsgate library. The…

Following the outsized PG-13 success of both M3gan with its frightening robotic doll and then Five Nights at Freddy’s with its animatronic rock band, Blumhouse has now settled on a familiar childhood companion, a seemingly innocent stuffed bear named…

In the wake of the dual Hollywood strikes, the 2024 theatrical release schedule is in a bind, even streamers are desperate for product. Sundance, save us. Eighty percent of this year’s film lineup is for sale, some even made on SAG-AFTRA interim agreements during the actors strike. That means…

Early last year, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster joined forces to cook up the clever killer doll horror movie M3GAN, a box office hit, and just this week announced their official merger to become the preeminent horror producer bringing…

Fuse always fetes the Halloween holiday with great makers of genre fare, and we’ve had the likes of John Carpenter, Stephen King, James Wan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mike Flanagan, Darren Lynn Bousman and Eli Roth grace us in the past. Today, we look at a producer and studio chief who has influenced the genre…

In the new film version of the popular video game Five Nights At Freddy’s, it is the Jim Henson Creature Shop and its talented puppeteers and character actors who are the real stars of this Blumhouse take on the game that the under-25 male set particularly…

Jason Blum said during a New York Comic Con panel that the merger of his company, Blumhouse, with James Wan’s Atomic Monster is “very close” to closing. “It’s not quite done yet,” he said during the Universal Pictures “BlumFest” session. “It’s very close.” Word first emerged nearly a year ago…

The power of Taylor Swift compels you. And it’s also worked its ways on producer Jason Blum, who cast out his The Exorcist: Believer to an earlier October release date to avoid a clash with Swift’s concert film. Blum explained his reasoning in an interview with EW. “The one thing that scares me…

Brian Duffield's No One Will Save You, now streaming on Hulu, unfolds as a haunting nightmare, highlighted by Kaitlyn Dever's silent acting. Also written by Duffield, the meticulous direction of his own script shapes a heightened sense of paranoia, striking the connection between effective visual…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum is among the Guest Sharks joining ABC’s Shark Tank for the upcoming 15th season. He will be joined by fellow Guest Sharks, Fanatics chairman & CEO Michael Rubin; Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes and CN2 Ventures and Pizzana co-founder; along…

Jason Blum and David Gordon Green have addressed the passing of William Friedkin, the iconic filmmaker whose 1973 classic The Exorcist is the basis for their forthcoming trilogy of films for Universal. “I am personally indebted to William Friedkin and saddened by his loss,” said producer Blum in a…