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15-461: Jason Blum serves as a producer under his Blumhouse Television banner. A Mexican American couple are approaching the due date for their firstborn child. After moving to a farming community in California, the wife develops unusual symptoms accompanied by horrific visions. Together they try to determine if these strange occurrences are related to a legendary curse, or something even more evil. In

30-929: A Brooklyn Heights townhouse for $ 9.8 million. Blum is on the Board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College , and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures . In 2022, Blum donated $ 10 million to Vassar College , the largest gift ever given to the college from a male alumnus. Producer Executive producer Producer Executive producer Executive producer Producer Producer Executive producer Producer Executive producer Producer Executive producer Actor Executive producer Producer Malaparte (theater company) Malaparte

45-461: A lot, and we bowled a lot, and eventually we thought, 'When we're not doing anything, why don't we see if we can put some new plays on?'" Malaparte's first production was a new translation of Luigi Pirandello 's 1918 play A Joke starring Hamilton, Hawke, Sherman, Cynthia Nixon , and Austin Pendleton , which ran from October 9–31, 1992. The company operated for three seasons in the 1990s as

60-537: A new play by an American playwright!" The New Yorker critic Hilton Als wrote that the Malaparte collective "brought a new take on male anxiety to the American theatre, and was not embarrassed by its love of women, or its romanticism." Malaparte officially dissolved in 2000, in part because the members wanted to devote more time to their children. In 2005, Hawke referred to the company's heyday as "pretty much

75-713: Is an American producer. He is founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions , which has produced the horror franchises Paranormal Activity (2007–2021), Insidious (2010–2023), The Purge (2013–2021), and Halloween (2018–2022). Blum has also produced Sinister (2012), Oculus (2013), Whiplash (2014), The Gallows (2015), The Gift (2015), Hush (2016), Split (2016), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Get Out (2017), Happy Death Day (2017), Upgrade (2018), Us (2019), The Invisible Man (2020), Freaky (2020), The Black Phone (2021), M3GAN (2022), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), and Speak No Evil (2024). Blum received nominations for

90-544: The Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash (2014), Get Out (2017) and BlacKkKlansman (2018). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing the drama film The Normal Heart (2014). He also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the documentary miniseries The Jinx (2015). Jason Ferus Blum

105-614: The end, they have a healthy child named Jose, but the infertility drugs will still continue. The film was released in the United States on October 1, 2021 by Amazon Studios . On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 72% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Jason Blum Jason Ferus Blum ( / b l ʌ m / ; born February 20, 1969)

120-515: The members juggled film and television work; there were often disputes over fundraising, casting, and play selection. Shows were performed in rented venues throughout Manhattan, with a flat $ 10 ticket price. In 1992, Jason Blum joined Malaparte as co-producing director with Ami Armstrong who had been running the office out of her home apartment. Blum personally hawked fliers in Times Square, shouting, "Don't go see some Broadway show! Come see

135-478: The projects. Bloomberg News praised Blum for making "blockbusters for pennies", including the horror film Paranormal Activity , which cost $ 15,000 to make and then grossed nearly $ 200 million. In addition, NPR's Planet Money did a special podcast about the company's methods. Blum also produced Insidious (2010), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013) and Happy Death Day (2017), as well as their sequels. In 2014, he served as executive producer for

150-435: The reason no woman had ever directed one of his horror films was that "there are not a lot of female directors (...) and even less who are inclined to do horror." After much criticism on social media, in which lists of such directors were circulated, he apologized for what he called his "dumb comments". In 2019, Sophia Takal directed and co-wrote the studio's horror remake Black Christmas , which opened on December 13, and

165-403: The television film The Normal Heart , which went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie . In 2015, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for HBO's The Jinx . Blum's feature films BlacKkKlansman , Whiplash and Get Out were all nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . In 2018, Blum said in an interview that

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180-590: Was a producing director at Ethan Hawke 's Malaparte theater company . He is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures . He obtained financing for his first film as producer, Kicking and Screaming (1995), after receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin , who endorsed the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executives. In 2000, he founded Blumhouse Productions , which specializes in producing micro-budget movies that give directors full creative control over

195-502: Was an American non-profit theater company based in New York City , New York . While driving cross-country in 1991, actors Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman decided to form a theater company. Actors Robert Sean Leonard , Frank Whaley , and Steve Zahn joined the fledgling enterprise, which Hawke named after an obscure novel. Leonard later explained, "We would be sitting around New York

210-756: Was born in Los Angeles , California, the son of Shirley Neilsen Blum (née Neilsen) and Irving Blum. His mother was an art professor and his father was an independent art dealer and director of the Ferus Gallery . Blum is of Jewish heritage. He graduated from Vassar College in 1991. While at Vassar, he and fellow future filmmaker Noah Baumbach were roommates, and Blum produced Baumbach's first film, Kicking and Screaming , in 1995. Blum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as an executive at Miramax , and later as an independent producer for Paramount Pictures . Prior to his tenure at Miramax, Blum

225-488: Was the studio's first theatrically released film by a female director. On August 14, 2020, Daily Front Row listed Blum as one of a group of high-profile investors who purchased W , a troubled fashion magazine. After appearing on an episode of Shark Tank , Blum made a deal with American Immersion Theater, the leading immersive theater company in the U.S. On July 14, 2012, Blum married journalist Lauren A.E. Schuker in Los Angeles . In July 2019, he bought

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