Blumhouse Head Reveals Studio Exited Project Over Creative Control Issues

Blumhouse Head Reveals Studio Exited Project Over Creative Control Issues

Blumhouse Productions CEO, Jason Blum, reveals that the studio recently chose to exit an unknown horror project over creative control issues.

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Jason Blum, CEO of Blumhouse Productions, recently revealed that the studio chose to exit an unknown project over creative control issues after trying to work out an initial deal. Blumhouse is the horror megastudio behind titles like Insidious, Get Out, and Happy Death Day, and has earned itself a highly respected status amongst horror junkies since it was founded over 20 years ago. Blum himself is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood, having churned out hundreds of high-quality, go-to horror flicks throughout his career.

2021 has been an especially big year for the production studio. Blumhouse continued their ongoing collaboration with Amazon Prime, Welcome to the Blumhouse, and released this year’s batch of horror-thriller installments last month. Additionally, Blumhouse partnered with the streaming service to release the highly anticipated Halloween Kills, the second film in the studio’s rebooted Halloween trilogy. Halloween Ends will arrive in 2022, with Blum’s revival of the horror classic, The Exorcist coming soon after.

Recently, Blum took to Twitter to reveal that despite the studio’s impressive reputation, Blumhouse had to walk away from a “scary” project due to disagreements over which side would have creative control. The producer then went on to clarify in the comments section that “it was a Finacier. Not an artist” that Blumhouse had disagreed with in the initial deal and said that he is “worried they’ll regret this.” Blum is keeping his lips sealed about what the unknown project actually is, saying he wants to leak the info “so badly,” but that it would be “mean” to do so. His full tweet can be read below:

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Today we walked away from a deal with a potential partner. The project is about something scary. We walked because the other side wouldn’t let us have creative control. I’m worried they’ll regret this. 😮

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It’s strange to think that any horror creator would pass on a collaboration with Blumhouse, but creative control issues have caused problems for countless productions in the past. But unlike other major production studios, Blumhouse finances small-budget genre films and typically gives directors full creative control. As an added perk for filmmakers, Blumhouse is somewhat famous for producing low-budget, high-reward horror flicks. Take Pananormal Activity for example, which originally only cost $15,000 to make. Though some revisions were done to bring the budget up to $215,000 the film ended up raking in a whopping $193.4 million worldwide, making it one of the most profitable projects of all time.

There’s likely a plethora of reasons as to why the names behind the mysterious project wanted full creative control, and why Blumhouse felt the need to seek it out in the first place. However, there’s an extremely slim chance those details will ever be made public. Regardless, there’s plenty on the horizon for the horror studio, with a remake of The Wolfman starring Ryan Gosling and an adaptation of the popular horror game Five Nights At Freddy’s currently in development. It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes from the creative control dispute between Blumhouse and the people behind this unknown movie or TV show, and if the studio will adjust their approach to new deals going forward.

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