Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have a new name for their merged companies

UPDATE: Deadline reports that the merged companies Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster will now be known as Blumhouse Atomic, although they will “continue as distinct production labels with their own creative teams shepherding film and TV projects under each label.”

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum provided the following statement: “When we merged our companies, we believed the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts, and that is exactly what has happened. Blumhouse Atomic is a natural evolution of what we’ve built together. The Conjuring franchise, Insidious, Saw, no filmmaker has created more horror franchises than James Wan, and together we’ve brought some of the genre’s 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.”

Atomic Monster’s James Wan added, “The future of horror comes from new voices, and Blumhouse Atomic gives us more ways to find them and support them for the long haul. I 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.“

The original article, from January 2024, follows:

Nearly fourteen months have gone by since it was announced that M3GAN and Insidious franchise collaborators Jason Blum and James Wan were planning to merge their production companies Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster. Now The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the merger deal has finally closed and Blum celebrated the merge with an X post where he said, “Our deal is …. Done. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have officially joined forces. The preeminent homes for horror are now under one roof!“

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will work as separate labels and retain creative independence, with a three-way ownership structure split by Blum, the majority owner; Wan; and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.“

When we first heard about the merger, Blum said it would work out well because “James is probably 70 to 80 percent artist and 30 to 20 percent business person, and I am the reverse.” Wan added, “We really do complement each other, yin and yang, which is part of what makes this so exciting.” Blum has also said that this deal will (hopefully) result in an increase in Blumhouse output. “We don’t usually put out more than three or four theatricals a year, and my hope is that with James we could double that to six to eight theatricals.”

We look forward to seeing what Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster are going to do together at Universal in the future – and we don’t have to wait very long to see their next collaboration. Universal is going to be giving the Blumhouse / Atomic Monster production Night Swim, a film that is promising to ruin swimming pools for its audience, a theatrical release this Friday, January 5th. Written and directed by Bryce McGuire, that film has the following synopsis: Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.

Night Swim stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Amélie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), and Gavin Warren (Fear the Walking Dead).

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