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How Blumhouse Founder Jason Blum Accidentally Became the King of Horror · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Blum is arguably the premier scream inducer of our
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  Speaker 2: time as the founder of Blumhouse, the genre based production
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  Speaker 2: company responsible for countless hit horror franchises from The Purgs
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  Speaker 2: to Insidious to Paranormal Activity. So it might be surprising
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  Speaker 2: to learn that the movies that inspired him were feel
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  Speaker 2: good classics like Greece, The Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars.
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  Speaker 2: So how did Jason transition into the king of horror
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  Speaker 2: movies he is today? He tells Deadline. I was so
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  Speaker 2: frustrated by sundancy movies. No one ever saw them. I
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  Speaker 2: was struggling with how to feed my soul and desire
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  Speaker 2: to do something different from my parents. They worked in
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  Speaker 2: contemporary art and the audience for it was very small,
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  Speaker 2: So I was focused on making things that would be
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  Speaker 2: seen by a wide audience. That's why I landed on horror.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best way to make independent movies that are
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  Speaker 2: seen by gazillions of people. As long as I make movies,
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  Speaker 2: I'll make horror for that reason. The words of Blumhouse
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  Speaker 2: founder Jason Blum, who's onto something with the audiences flocking
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  Speaker 2: to Horror's the latest five nights at Freddy's just raked
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  Speaker 2: in seventy five million dollars on its opening weekend.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.