Jason Blum | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 87
The Ben Shapiro Show
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4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hollywood created a certain way information is consumed. |
| 0:06.0 | One of the reasons Trump, President Trump, was elected was because the way that we consume |
| 0:12.1 | information has been changed by the media industry across Hollywood and New York. |
| 0:18.8 | A couple sets up a camera in their home to capture a supernatural presence haunting them. |
| 0:23.6 | A family fights to survive the night when the U.S. government makes all crime legal for 12 hours. |
| 0:28.6 | A black man goes to his white girlfriend's house and discovers their sinister plans for black people. |
| 0:33.6 | These are just a few of the high-concept films produced by Blumhouse Productions, founded by Jason Blum. |
| 0:38.9 | At 35, Jason Blum moved to Los Angeles and found himself producing a micro-budget horror film called |
| 0:44.1 | Paranormal Activity. The film ended up being made for only $15,000, and then soared to over |
| 0:49.3 | $190 million at the box office, making it one of the most profitable films of all time. |
| 0:55.0 | Fast forward a decade and a half, and Jason's production company, Blumhouse Productions, |
| 0:58.6 | holds many of these staggering box office records, Academy Awards for Whiplash, Get Out, and Black |
| 1:03.3 | Klansman, as well as the record for the biggest wide-release box office, flop, from the major |
| 1:08.0 | studio. Jason credits his success and his ability to take risks with his |
| 1:12.3 | business model of low-budget, high-concept films generally of the horror variety. He likes to |
| 1:17.4 | stay relevant and stay political. His latest film, The Hunt, focuses on a group of wealthy elites |
| 1:23.1 | hunting deplorables for sport. The original marketing of the film received a ton of backlash, even garnering flack from President |
| 1:29.5 | Trump himself. |
| 1:30.5 | Following the awful news of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas last August, Jason pulled the film |
| 1:34.6 | from its original release date. |
| 1:36.3 | But there's been tremendous buzz about the film ever since. |
| 1:38.8 | Now being marketed as how, quote, the most talked about movie of the year is one that |
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