{"id":714346,"date":"2026-03-01T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pga-awards-barry-diller-swipes-at-david-ellison-harvey-weinstein-while-introducing-honoree-jason-blum\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:35:08","slug":"pga-awards-barry-diller-swipes-at-david-ellison-harvey-weinstein-while-introducing-honoree-jason-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pga-awards-barry-diller-swipes-at-david-ellison-harvey-weinstein-while-introducing-honoree-jason-blum\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Awards: Barry Diller Swipes at David Ellison, Harvey Weinstein While Introducing Honoree Jason Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tWhile introducing Producers Guild of America Milestone Award nominee Jason Blum at the PGA Awards on Saturday night, Barry Diller made digs at David Ellison, as well as the guild itself, for giving the honor to people like Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves in previous years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSamuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, Jack Warner \u2014 What would Jack Warner do to know he\u2019d been succeeded by a stunt pilot?\u201d Diller, chairman of internet and media<\/a> conglomerate IAC and an executive who led Paramount Pictures and Fox, said, which evoked audible gasps and laughs from the audience. Current Paramount chairman and CEO Ellison, who has been in the news<\/a> in recent days for the mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is a licensed pilot for helicopter aviation, aerobatics and more. Warner, of course, was the founder and president of Warner Bros. Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiller, a longtime friend of Blum\u2019s, continued: \u201cCecil B. DeMille, Disney, and now Blum: Not the most obvious succession, but then you also gave this award to Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves. So there\u2019s that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDiller continued his introduction by making quips at Blum\u2019s \u201ccheapness.\u201d Of course, Blum, the founder and CEO of Blumhouse (behind horror franchises like Paranormal Activity<\/em>,\u00a0Insidious<\/em>,\u00a0The Black Phone<\/em>,\u00a0The Purge<\/em>), is well known for investing small amounts of money in films and giving directors their creative freedom. For example, 2007\u2019s Paranormal Activity <\/em>was made for just $15,000 but grossed almost $200 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s some commonality with the greats,\u201d Diller continued. \u201cDeMille made movies<\/a> for $15,000 and so did Blum almost 100 years later. To say he\u2019s cheap isn\u2019t a characterization. It\u2019s a defining attribute. \u2026 I\u2019m giving this award to Jason, not because I like horror movies; I actually hate them. But because we\u2019ve been friends since before he matriculated, if that\u2019s the right word to describe working for Harvey Weinstein. How he found his groove after that is anyone\u2019s guess, but he sure did find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlum served as an executive for Bob and Harvey Weinstein at their production company Miramax before becoming an independent producer at Paramount and founding Blumhouse Productions in 2000.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiller continued: \u201c300 films made on the lowest pay scales in film history, but he also did something quite extraordinary in itself, and that\u2019s helping artists tell stories and helping them make a lot of money. \u2026 Once Jason found his calling, he focused with an intensity that is rare in this business, and that\u2019s worth saying because Hollywood is essentially a machine that\u2019s designed to distract you. There\u2019s always a bigger budget being dangled in front of you, a more prestigious kind of movie that will get you an awards campaign or a franchise that someone swears is going to change everything. The shiny objects in this town are endless. Jason though stayed focused on scary and people betting on themselves \u2026 Jason is this odd something of a Renaissance man, a true embodiment of a man [who] can do all things if it is his will. And it is his will and his stick to perseverance of what he believes in and how essentially honest and honorable he has been that makes me ever so glad to be able to present this award to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Blum took the stage to accept the Milestone Award, he joked, \u201cI think my biggest achievement is getting Barry Diller to the PGAs!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBarry\u2019s been a friend of mine for a long time and a mentor of mine and someone I admire so, so much,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd he\u2019s changed my life is a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his acceptance speech, the horror mogul also talked about how AI cannot replicate the passions and tastes of a producer. \u201cWe\u2019re living at this time where machines are very confident that they can pick what will work, that algorithms can tell us everything we\u2019ve ever watched and what we should watch next, and AI can tell us what to stream in the mood we\u2019re in next Tuesday. But what machines can\u2019t do?\u201d He then brought up the success of Heated Rivalry<\/em>, noting, \u201cIf you would ask an algorithm a few months ago to predict a low-budget gay hockey romance with zero known stars, I promise you the algorithm would have been like, \u2018Do not make that show.\u2019 But that\u2019s why Heated Rivalry<\/em> needed us. It needed producers.\u201d Blum added that he even invited the hit show\u2019s producers to be his guests at the show, but they were in New York to watch Connor Storrie host Saturday Night Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a full list of PGA winners, click here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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