Jason Blum
American film producer (born 1969)
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Obsession is the only wide-release horror film on record to grow in its second weekend at this scale,
- Jason Blum, chief executive of Blumhouse, Obsession’s distributor, remarkedIrish Timesirishtimes.com/culture/film…
Obsession is the ONLY wide-release horror film on record to grow in its second weekend at this scale — $22.4M, up 30% over opening,... This doesn’t happen in horror.”
- Blum wrote Sunday on XNBC Newsnbcnews.com/pop/culture…
- the producer wrote on XNewsweeknewsweek.com/entertainment/us…
- Executive producer Jason Blum posted on social mediaForbes UKforbes.com/sites/hannahabraham…
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Kartik Aaryan calls Obsession one of the 'best horror films', Ananya Panday also hails Hollywood blockbuster
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/entertainme…Director Curry Baker gained initial fame from YouTube channel
ABP Livenews.abplive.com/entertainment…Backrooms box office shakes up Hollywood: 20-year-old Kane Parsons' horror film scores $38 million on opening day
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/entertainme…Taking the number one spot at the box office is “Backrooms,” a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons’ series of YouTube videos featuring eerie found footage of a mysterious office space (drawn from a 4chan thread) that defies physics
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/05…New A24 film smashes studio’s box office record after just one day
The Independentindependent.co.uk/arts/enterta…For indie studio A24, that’s its biggest opening by far — the previous record was held by “Civil War,” which made $25.7 in its first weekend of release
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/05…How an indie horror film became a box-office ‘Obsession’
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