Jason Blum

Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, is a three-time Academy Award®-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer.

Blumhouse is known for pioneering a new model of studio filmmaking: producing high-quality micro-budget films and provocative television series, and his multimedia company is regarded as the driving force in horror.

The multimedia company is one of the most successful independent studios in history with over $4.8 billion in collective box office receipts from its films, and has produced over 150 films and television series.

In film, Blum has produced the lucrative, iconic, genre franchises like Halloween, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Happy Death Day, Sinister, and The Purge, among several others. More recently, he unleashed a fresh, successful take on The Invisible Man, directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Elisabeth Moss, that grossed over $143 million. Blum’s additional feature film credits include, but are not limited to: Freaky; The Hunt; Glass from M. Night Shyamalan; Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman; 2017 blockbusters Split from M. Night Shyamalan; and Get Out from Jordan Peele; The Gift; Unfriended; Whiplash; and The Visit.

Blum’s television company successfully relaunched three years ago as a vibrant independent studio producing almost 15 series with different networks and streaming platforms, including but not limited to Sharp Objects for HBO; The Loudest Voice for Showtime; A Wilderness of Error for FX; the critically acclaimed limited series The Good Lord Bird (TGLB) for Showtime; among several others. Aside from the Amazon slate of streaming films called Welcome to the Blumhouse, the company is also in production on a slate of genre films for Epix.

The indie studio has also earned critical acclaim, including a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for Sharp Objects; a Golden Globe award for Russell Crowe’s performance in The Loudest Voice; a Golden Globe nomination for Ethan Hawke for TGLB; and Emmy awards for its productions of The Normal Heart and The Jinx, for HBO. The division also produced feature-length documentaries, with projects that include: A Secret Love, the lauded documentary from executive producer Ryan Murphy for Netflix; This Is Home, the 2018 Sundance Audience Award winner (World Documentaries) and recipient of the prestigious duPont/Columbia School of Journalism Award; and Bathtubs Over Broadway, the lauded documentary.

Blum has been recognized by TIME magazine’s 100 list of the world’s most influential people and has appeared several times on Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment List.” In 2016, he received the Producer of the Year Award at CinemaCon. Jason is on the Board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Before founding Blumhouse, Blum served as co-head of the Acquisitions and Co-Productions department at Miramax Films in New York. He began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte Theater Company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke.

He is married to screenwriter Lauren Schuker Blum and they have three kids — Roxy, Booker and Bette Sue.