Jason Blum

Jason Blum is basically the guy who figured out that horror doesn't need a massive budget to scare people out of their seats — it needs a good idea and the freedom to execute it. The Blumhouse model (low budget, profit participation for filmmakers) sounds like a business school case study, but the results speak for themselves: Paranormal Activity turned a few thousand dollars into a cultural phenomenon, Get Out became one of the sharpest social commentaries in modern cinema history, and The Purge spawned a whole franchise out of one elegant premise. What I genuinely respect is that he's not just a money guy — he keeps taking swings on distinctive directors like Jordan Peele and Mike Flanagan. Not every bet pays off, but the ones that do land harder than anything the major studios churn out.

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Name (English)

Jason Blum

Name (Japanese)

ジェイソン・ブラム

Reading

じぇいそん・ぶらむ

Born

February 20, 1969 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

film producer / chief executive officer / financier

University

Vassar College

• Official sitehttps://blumhouse.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/jason_blum
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Blum
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13449900

Tags

• California
• film producer
• chief executive officer
• financier

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.