Jason Blum
Jason Blum
Jason Ferus Blum is an American film producer. Blum is 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
CountryUnited States of America
creative lows budgets
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.
mistake successful thinking
I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.
mind months window
There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.
ideas underdog almost-done
But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.
scary scare elements
Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.
trying passionate stuff
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
reading scripts want
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
love-is long people
People love being scared, even for long periods of time.
art people found
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
college class paper
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
believer creating low movies parameters people starts
I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.
paid work
I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
drives movies people snobby
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.
budget business hire larger mainly movies producer
Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.