Producer Jason Blum on Money vs. Creativity

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Matt is joined by producer, founder, and chief executive of Blumhouse Productions, Jason Blum, to discuss the evolution of economics in the entertainment industry in the age of streaming. Later, Matt runs Jason through a lightning round of questions about various topics in Hollywood. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Jason Blum Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the host that brought you to Coding Westworld.
0:05.1	And Westworld, the recapables.
0:07.0	Comes the Ringer Prestige TV podcast on Westworld.
0:10.9	I'm Joanna Robinson.
0:12.4	I'm Danny Hyfitts.
0:13.7	And I'm David Shoemaker.
0:15.2	Welcome to Westworld Season 4 in the Prestige TV podcast feed,
0:18.0	where we're going to break down every episode of Westworld season four. Every Monday, the day after the show comes out on the Prestige TV podcast feed where we're going to break down every episode of Westworld season four.
0:21.2	Every Monday, the day after the show comes out on the prestige TV podcast feed.
0:26.7	Wherever we get your podcast, but get them on Spotify.
0:31.9	All right, it is Wednesday, June 29th, and we've got a treat today on the town.
0:36.1	We've got Jason Blum, the super producer of horror movies and other types of movies, television shows. He is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse, and he had a hit this past weekend with the black phone, which gross $23 million. We're going to talk a little bit about that, but mostly why I wanted to have Jason on the show is he wrote an interesting op-ed in the New York Times about the changing
0:57.5	economics of movies and how that impacts the people who make them. So we're going to get into that
1:02.5	with Jason Blum. He's great. One of the few truly candid people in the movie business, started his
1:08.3	career at Merrimack's launch Blumhouse, best known initially for paranormal activity but has had a hit ratio that is very enviable so we're
1:17.9	going to get into all of that with Jason Blum from Puck and the Ringer I'm Matt Bellany and this is the
1:21.9	town all right we are here with Jason Blum, Super Producer.
1:30.2	Super Producer?
1:31.1	Do you go by Super Producer now?
1:33.0	No, I exclusively go by Uber Super Producer.
1:36.3	Is that on the business card?
1:37.6	No, I go by, no, no.
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