{"id":364040,"date":"2025-12-22T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:49:08","slug":"blumhouse-atomic-monster-movies-cross-1-billion-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364040\/","title":{"rendered":"Blumhouse & Atomic Monster Movies Cross $1 Billion In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: In a year that was heavy with horror, for a minute it appeared as though Blumhouse<\/a> and Atomic Monster<\/a> were on a stale streak, particularly when sequel M3GAN 2.0 didn\u2019t live up to the blockbuster status of the first 2023 film. But in the end, the genre label is having the last laugh, err scare, as all eight of their productions combined to gross $1.022 billion at the global box office for calendar year 2025. That\u2019s the first time as a combined company that the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster slate has made more than $1B. By the way, that\u2019s off of combined production costs of $204M before P&A. Talk about profitable.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlumhouse and Atomic Monster\u2019s merger was made official in January 2024. The previous best box office year was 2023, with four Blumhouse movies \u2014Insidious: Red Door, M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s and Black Phone\u2014 raking in $821.9M. Atomic Monster\u2019s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Nun II made combined close to $710M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s how this all breaks down as some of the titles aren\u2019t with Blumhouse\u2019s home distributor Universal. The bulk of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster\u2019s gross is with the New Line finale (but is it really the last one?) Conjuring: Last Rites which minted $494.6M, the best ever in the franchise besting The Nun\u2018s $366M global take. It\u2019s also the only Conjuring movie to have grossed north of $400M WW. The Patrick Wilson-Vera Farmiga starring, Michael Chaves directed R-rated horror movie reps 48% of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster\u2019s 2025. The Conjuring is the highest grossing horror franchise ever through eight titles which have grossed $2.57 billion. Last Rites launched in the post-Labor Day weekend which Warner Bros has turned into a rich launch pad for horror films going back to 2017\u2019s It.<\/p>\n

\n\tSecond, pushing the Jason Blum and James Wan label over $1 billion, is Universal\u2019s Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 with $201.8M global, $108.9M of that made domestically. The sequel, also directed by Emma Tammi, went pure theatrical instead of theatrical day and date on Peacock like the 2023 movie. The original movie finaled at $291.5M WW. The Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s franchise is nearing a half billion at the global B.O. <\/p>\n

\n\tThird is Scott Derrickson\u2019s Black Phone 2 with $132.1M WW, which was also Blumhouse-Atomic Monster\u2019s third highest No. 1 opening stateside of the year ($27.3M), behind Conjuring Last Rites (best in franchise with $84M) and Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 ($64M, a record opening for any movie in the post Thanksgiving\/early December frame). All in the Black Phone franchise counts $293.5M. Black Phone 2 opened on Oct. 17 and it repped actor Ethan Hawke\u2019s fourth collaboration with Derrickson after the Sinister series. <\/p>\n

\n\tFourth is NEON\u2019s The Monkey based on the Stephen King short story and directed by Oz Perkins, which grossed $68.8M global ($39.9M domestic). The movie opened on Feb. 21 and followed twin brothers Bill and Hal who find their father\u2019s old monkey toy in the attic. A series of gruesome deaths start and the brothers decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, thus growing apart over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile M3GAN 2.0 didn\u2019t work at $39M global ($24.1M domestic) next to the original\u2019s hot $180M, it still gets Blumhouse and Atomic Monster to big numbers for the year. Leigh Whannell\u2019s Wolf Man was next with $34.1M worldwide ($20.7M domestic), followed by the Brandon Sklenar and Meghann Fahy starring April 11 date thriller, Drop, with $28.7M WW ($16.6M domestic), while Woman in the Yard after a March 28 theatrical release grossed $23.3M (96% of that made stateside). <\/p>\n

\n\tFirst release for Blumhouse and Atomic Monster in the New Year is Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy via New Line on April 17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In a year that was heavy with horror, for a minute it appeared as though Blumhouse and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[14495,21833,88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-364040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-atomic-monster","9":"tag-blumhouse","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}