{"id":674100,"date":"2026-11-03T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674100\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:26:10","slug":"blumhouse-atomic-monster-reveals-new-studio-name-after-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674100\/","title":{"rendered":"Blumhouse Atomic Monster Reveals New Studio Name After Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo years after merging, Jason Blum<\/a>\u2018s Blumhouse<\/a> and James Wan<\/a>\u2018s Atomic Monster<\/a> will now call their combined entity Blumhouse Atomic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe producers of Obsession, Backrooms and the Conjuring franchise will continue as distinct production labels with their own creative teams shepherding film and TV projects under each label.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the merger, Blumhouse Atomic together have generated more than $2.5 billion in global box office against combined production budgets of less than $330 million, including more than $1 billion in worldwide box office in each of 2025 and 2026. This year\u2019s films have earned nearly $1.3 billion on less than $70 million in production budgets. Those hits include Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession and Kane Parsons\u2019 Backrooms, which respectively became the highest grossing movies for their distributors, Focus Features and A24. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we merged our companies, we believed the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts, and that is exactly what has happened,\u201d said Jason Blum, Co-Founder of Blumhouse Atomic. \u201cBlumhouse Atomic is a natural evolution of what we\u2019ve built together. The Conjuring franchise, Insidious, Saw, no filmmaker has created more horror franchises than James Wan, and together we\u2019ve brought some of the genre\u2019s most recognizable properties under one roof. Bringing Saw back to James, with a new chapter on the way, is a perfect example of what we can do together. We have the output of a studio with the creative freedom and financial discipline of an independent company, and more opportunities than ever to take these stories beyond the theater and into television, games and live experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe future of horror comes from new voices, and Blumhouse Atomic gives us more ways to find them and support them for the long haul,\u201d said James Wan, Co-Founder of Blumhouse Atomic. \u201cI got my start with a small film and people willing to take a chance on it, so creating those opportunities for others is personal to me. Working with filmmakers like Kane Parsons, Curry Barker, Josh Giuliano and Dylan Clark is a big part of that. We want to give them the freedom to make something distinctive and build relationships that last beyond one film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously reported, Blumhouse Atomic hired Shudder\u2019s Sam Zimmerman as SVP, Development and Acquisitions to discover frosh filmmakers and make movies with budgets under $5M. He was involved in getting Universal to buy River from IFC for $10M+ at TIFF having worked with that pic\u2019s filmmaker Joshua Guiliano. Blumhouse Atomic also inked a first-look deal with Divide\/Conquer in late 2025 to develop high-concept, cost-efficient genre films. During the Blumhouse Atomic union, the production company got the rights to Saw last year, reuniting Wan with the horror series he co-created with Leigh Whannell. Lionsgate retains its existing ownership and distribution rights, while Content Partners and Mark Burg hold interests in the existing film library. Blum and Wan are also working on new installments of Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company\u2019s 2027 slate of originals and franchise titles includes River, The Revenge of La Llorona, The Exorcist: Martyrs, Anything But Ghosts, Paranormal Activity, Molepeople, Blair Witch, Sleepover and Seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong Blumhouse Atomic\u2019s TV series are USA\u2019s The Rainmaker, Prime Video\u2019s Scarpetta and Netflix\u2019s the Worst Ever franchise. There\u2019s also the game Grave Seasons, Paranormal Activity on Broadway, and franchise collaborations at Universal Halloween Horror Nights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years after merging, Jason Blum\u2018s Blumhouse and James Wan\u2018s Atomic Monster will now call their combined entity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[107944,56740,285603,93,61,60,21918,1929,270],"class_list":["post-674100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-atomic-monster","tag-blumhouse","tag-blumhouse-atomic","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-wan","tag-jason-blum","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}