Jason Ferus Blum is an American film and television producer.
13 Facts About Jason Blum
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Jason Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, which produced the horror franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Purge.
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Jason Blum received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing the drama film The Normal Heart.
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Jason Blum won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the documentary miniseries The Jinx.
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Jason Blum's mother was an art professor and his father was an independent art dealer and director of the Ferus Gallery.
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Jason Blum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as an executive at Miramax, and later as an independent producer for Paramount Pictures.
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Jason Blum is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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Jason Blum obtained financing for his first film as producer, Kicking and Screaming, after receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin, who endorsed the script.
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Jason Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executives.
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Bloomberg News praised Jason Blum for making "blockbusters for pennies", including the horror film Paranormal Activity which cost $15,000 to make and then grossed nearly $200 million.
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Jason Blum produced Insidious, Sinister, The Purge, and Happy Death Day, as well as their sequels.
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Jason Blum is on the Board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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Recently, Jason Blum donated $10M to Vassar College, the largest gift ever given to the college from a male alumnus.