Jason Blum is at the top of the horror hierarchy, but he doesn’t want to put the same scares — or filmmakers — in front of audiences time after time.
The second installment of Amazon Prime’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse” anthology of fright films, hitting the streamer Friday, is the megaproducer’s answer to that.
“There are a lot of scripts that we see on the movie side of the company that are movies that should get made. They aren’t necessarily right for Universal but they should be made, and this would give me a way to make them,” the Blumhouse Productions CEO and founder, 52, told the Daily News of collection’s origins, which he credits to Amazon Studios Chief Jen Salke.
Blum — a three-time Academy Award nominee for producing Best Picture noms “Whiplash,” “Get Out,” and “BlacKkKlansman” — and Salke quickly decided they would “choose all the filmmakers from underrepresented groups of people.”
Read more at the New York Daily News: Horror mega-producer Jason Blum on highlighting ‘underrepresented’ filmmakers through ‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’
