Jason Blum trivia: 41 unknown facts about the film producer

Jason Blum is an American film producer. Through his company Blumhouse Productions he has produced many horror franchises!

His company continue to pursue new and authentic voices and to make bold new horror visions. So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career.

1. His full name is Jason Ferus Blum
2. He was born on February 20, 1969
3. He is an American film producer
4. He is the founder and CEO of the eponymous company Blumhouse Productions
5. He has produced such film franchises as Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and Insidious
6. He also produced the critically acclaimed and commercially successful films Sinister (2012), Oculus (2013), The Gift (2015), Hush (2016), Split (2016), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Happy Death Day (2017), Upgrade (2018), Halloween (2018), and Us (2019)
7. Blum received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash (2014), Get Out (2017), and BlacKkKlansman (2018)
8. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing the drama film The Normal Heart (2014)
9. He also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the documentary miniseries The Jinx (2015)
10. Blum was born in Los Angeles, California
11. He is the son of Shirley (née Neilsen) and Irving Blum
12. His mother was an art professor
13. His father was an independent art dealer and director of the Ferus Gallery
14. His father was Jewish
15. His mother was previously married to museum director Walter Hopps
16. Blum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as an executive at Miramax
17. And later as an independent producer for Paramount Pictures
18. Prior to his tenure at Miramax, Blum was a producing director at Ethan Hawke’s Malaparte theater company
19. Blum is a 1991 graduate of Vassar College
20. He obtained financing for his first film as producer, Kicking and Screaming (1995)
21. After receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin, who endorsed the script
22. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executives
23. In 2000, he founded Blumhouse Productions
24. The production company specializes in producing micro-budget movies that give directors full creative control over the projects
25. Some of the films produced by Blum have been highly profitable
26. Including horror film Paranormal Activity
27. The film was made for $15,000 and earned nearly $200 million
28. NPR’s Planet Money did a special podcast about how Blum’s production house gets its success
29. Blum also produced Insidious (2010), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), and Happy Death Day (2017)
30. All of which had successful sequels
31. In 2014, he served as an executive producer on the television film The Normal Heart
32. The television film went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie
33. In 2015, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for HBO’s The Jinx
34. Blum produced the feature films BlacKkKlansman, Whiplash and Get Out
35. All of which earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture
36. In 2018, Blum said in an interview that 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”
37. After much criticism on social media, in which lists of such directors were circulated, he apologized for what he called his “dumb comments”
38. The studio’s first released film by a female director will be Black Christmas
39. It is directed by Sophia Takal
40. On July 14, 2012, Blum married journalist Lauren A.E. Schuker in Los Angeles
41. In July 2019 he bought a Brooklyn Heights townhouse for $9.8 million