'Get Out' producer Jason Blum (Live at SXSW)

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Blumhouse Productions founder and CEO Jason Blum talks with Recode's Peter Kafka at South by Southwest 2018. Blum's company, which largely makes low-budget "genre" films such as "The Purge," "Happy Death Day" and "Paranormal Activity," scored a Best Picture nomination this year with Jordan Peele's hit thriller "Get Out." He talks about the experience of awaiting — and losing — that Oscar, as well as what makes Blumhouse so different from all the other companies more commonly represented at the big awards shows. Plus: Why the studio is often happy to sell its films directly to Netflix or Amazon, rather than sending them to theaters, and why Blum thinks the Hollywood establishment has already lost the in-theater vs. at-home battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
0:03.3	That is me.
0:04.2	I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.5	I'm here at Vox Media headquarters in New York City, but not for long.
0:10.0	We're going to go back in time to a conversation I had last week at South by Southwest with Hollywood producer Jason Blum.
0:15.9	He's a great person to talk to.
0:17.6	You will like this interview.
0:18.9	But first, our now standard request, if you like
0:22.0	this podcast and you do, because you're listening to it, tell someone else on Facebook, on Twitter,
0:26.5	in person, you can go to Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to this podcast and rate and
0:31.0	review. It helps us. Thank you. Okay. Now we're going to go to Austin. This is the live interview
0:36.4	I did at the Vox Media Go Deeper House.
0:40.0	That's what we called them?
0:40.8	The Deep End, the Deep End house.
0:42.6	It's a great place.
0:43.6	It's a very cool conversation.
0:44.6	I talked to Jason Blum a year ago at Code Media just before Get Out came out.
0:49.7	We talked about that and what happened sort of after Get Out came out and just about how to make
0:54.8	really interesting, really successful movies for not a lot of money.
0:58.8	He's one of the most interesting people I've talked to it for this podcast, so I think
1:03.5	you'll like it.
1:04.1	Enjoy.
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