Combined scary power: That’s why the 2 biggest horror masters in Hollywood want to join forces now

This is good news for horror fans: Jason Blum and James wan plan to merge their production companies Blumhouse and Atomic Monster to produce even more horror films per year. That reports the . Anyone who likes to watch horror movies will surely know these names, but we will go a little further here:

Blumhouse is the production company behind just about every successful horror movie (franchise) that has come out in recent years – starting with “Paranormal Activity” through “Insidious”, “Sinister” and “The Purge” to “Happy Deathday” and the three new “Halloween” movies, but also “The Invisible Man” and “Get Out” and finally ” The black phone”. All of these titles are produced by Jason Blum, who has an incomparable success story with cheaply shot horror films, mostly based on a simple basic idea.

And James Wan and his Atomic Monster also stand for incredibly successful and (more importantly) profitable horror films in Hollywood: The Conjuring franchise has so far grossed $2.1 billion on a total budget of just $178 million – a real money machine. Wan also started the series “Saw” and recently made one of the best horror movies in recent years, “Malignant”.

This is behind the merger of Blumhouse and Atomic Monster

As mentioned in the introduction, James Wan and Jason Blum now want to merge their production companies to produce even more successful horror films. This should be made possible by the fact that Blum and Wan’s expertise complement each other perfectly compared to the emphasizes:

“James is probably 70 or 80 percent artist and 20 or 30 percent businessman, for me it’s the other way around,” says Jason Blum. And James Wan added, “We really complement each other, like yin and yang, which is why this is so exciting.”

“I have no idea for a horror movie. Not one,” Blum explained further. “My business model is based on seeing great ideas from other people.” Not so with Wan: “I have so many ideas, so many, more than I can handle on my own.” This also includes horror video games, podcasts, events and merchandise. “This deal gives me a bigger canvas to paint on if you want,” Wan explained.

Above all, Wan and his ideas should benefit from the fact that Blumhouse is a significantly larger company than Atomic Monster and can leverage the existing infrastructure. As the As further reported, Atomic Monster will become an independent label within Blumhouse and, like Blumhouse itself, will work closely with Studio Universal as part of a so-called first-look deal, which will then bring the horror films to theaters.

Speaking of cinema, the next Blumhouse horror movie is the creepy puppet thriller “M3GAN”, in which an AI-controlled toy goes out of control. The German cinema release is on January 12, 2023.