Industry Motion picture Area served Worldwide Website blumhouse.com Founded 2000 | Headquarters United States Owner Jason Blum Founder Jason Blum Type of business Private | |
 | ||
Services Film production
Television production Films produced Insidious, Sinister, Paranormal Activity, The Purge: Anarchy, Incarnate Profiles | ||
Blumhouse Productions is an American film and television production company, founded by Jason Blum. Blumhouse is mostly known for producing low-budget horror movies, such as the Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Purge franchises. In 2014, Blumhouse produced the Academy Award–nominated drama film Whiplash, for which Blum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The company currently has a 10-year first-look deal with the studio Universal Pictures.
Overview
According to various stories, the company's model is to produce movies independently and release them wide through the studio system. Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures. Blumhouse's highly profitable credits began in 2009 with Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and grossed over $193 million worldwide. Blumhouse produced Insidious, which grossed over $97 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5 million, and Sinister, which grossed over $77 million worldwide from a budget of $3 million.
Blumhouse has worked with directors such as James Wan, Mike Flanagan, James DeMonaco, M. Night Shyamalan and Scott Derrickson. Blumhouse's films include its first for Universal Pictures – The Purge starring Ethan Hawke – which debuted on June 7, 2013, Insidious: Chapter 2, released on September 13, 2013 and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, released on January 3, 2014. Films the company produced in 2014 include Stretch, which was released on October 7, The Purge: Anarchy, which opened on July 18, Jessabelle for Lionsgate Entertainment, which was released on November 7, and Whiplash, which was released on October 10, 2014. Blumhouse also produced The Boy Next Door, which was released on January 23, 2015.
On the television side, Blumhouse has a first look deal with Lionsgate, and the company produced the short-lived series Stranded for Syfy and executive produced The River for ABC. For Halloween 2012, Blumhouse opened the Blumhouse of Horrors, an interactive haunted house experience in Downtown Los Angeles.
On September 9, 2014 Blumhouse established BH Tilt, dedicated to generating movies from Blumhouse and other filmmakers for multi-platform release. The releases from BH Tilt are The Green Inferno, The Darkness, Incarnate, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, The Belko Experiment, Sleight, Lowriders and Birth of the Dragon.
On November 11, 2014 Blumhouse launches Blumhouse Books, dedicated to having filmmakers and authors create original horror and thriller novels. The first couple releases are The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City (2015), The Apartment (2016) and Feral (2017).
On May 23, 2016 it was announced that Blumhouse, Miramax and Trancas would be developing a new Halloween film which they will co-finance. John Carpenter is set to produce the project and act as creative consultant. John Carpenter stated, "Thirty-eight years after the original Halloween, I'm going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all." On February 9, 2017 John Carpenter announced that the next Halloween film would be released on October 19, 2018, and is going to be written by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride and will be directed by Green. The upcoming film is also a direct sequel to Halloween II (1981).
On January 19, 2017 Blumhouse Television, AMPLE and A&E revived the television series Cold Case Files for a ten-episode run and is scheduled to air on February 27, 2017.