Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?

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Opublikowano: 2026-04-22

Jason Blum built one of Hollywood’s smartest businesses: make low-budget horror movies, give filmmakers room, pay talent on the back end, and let the hits carry the misses. It worked so well that it became a Harvard Business Review case study. But the movie business that made that model work has changed: Theatrical is weaker, lots of people are making horror movies, studios are consolidating, and AI is the latest thing Hollywood is supposed to fear — or embrace. So I sat down with Blum at a live Business Insider event in San Francisco to ask what stil...