Jason Blum

Jason Ferus Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer, and both the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. He won the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing The Normal Heart, and was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash. 2Early life Blum was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Shirley (Neilsen), an art professor, and Irving Blum, an independent art dealer. His mother was previously married to museum director Walter Hopps. Blum is Jewish. 2Career Blum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as executive producer and later as independent producer for Warner Bros. He also was working as producing director at Ethan Hawke's Malaparte Theater Company. Blum is a 1991 graduate of Vassar College. He obtained financing for his first film as producer, Kicking and Screaming (1995), after receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin, who endorsed the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executive