{"id":730646,"date":"2026-05-31T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jason-blum-james-wan-on-obsession-and-backrooms-saving-our-industry-and-blumhouse-atomic-monster-disney-of-horror-future\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:40:22","slug":"jason-blum-james-wan-on-obsession-and-backrooms-saving-our-industry-and-blumhouse-atomic-monster-disney-of-horror-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jason-blum-james-wan-on-obsession-and-backrooms-saving-our-industry-and-blumhouse-atomic-monster-disney-of-horror-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Blum, James Wan on \u2018Obsession\u2019 and \u2018Backrooms\u2019 \u201cSaving Our Industry\u201d and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster \u201cDisney of Horror\u201d Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tObsession<\/em> and Backrooms <\/em>are breaking records and making history at the box office, and producers Jason Blum and James Wan say the films are reminiscent of the 1970s era of young filmmakers breaking into the horror genre.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe horror leaders opened the Produced By Conference at Universal Studios lot Saturday, where they sat down with PGA President Stephanie Allain to discuss the state of cinema, movie theaters\u2019 recovery from COVID and their future goals for Blumhouse\u2013Atomic Monster.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince COVID, there\u2019s been this lethargic feeling around theatrical, and is it relevant anymore and is it going to survive?\u201d Blum said. \u201cAnd what I think is so incredible about Obsession<\/em> and Backrooms<\/em> is that they\u2019re a new kind of movie. They\u2019re made by non-traditional directors, directors who really honed their skills as creators online.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tObsession, <\/em>released May 15, was written and directed by 26-year-old YouTube<\/a>r Curry Barker and made for $750,000. Now in its third week, the Focus Features and Blumhouse release is making history as the first movie outside of Christmas since 1982 to increase in its second and third weekends.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Backrooms <\/em>debuts this weekend from fellow YouTuber Kane Parsons, who at just 20 years old is eyeing the biggest opening in A24 history. Co-financed by Chernin Entertainment, the $10 million adaptation of Parsons\u2019 viral YouTube short-film series<\/a> could gross as much as $90 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlum and Wan also noted that they have another forthcoming project, a Blair Witch Project<\/em> reboot with a creator, Dylan Clark, who got his start online. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTheir hope and desire and dream is to make cool movies,\u201d Blum said. \u201cBackrooms <\/em>and Obsession<\/em> are edgy and weird and fucking nuts. And to me, there\u2019s almost this feeling of the \u201970s, of a new generation of young people making edgy movies that are connecting in theaters in a crazy way. So many young people grew up in a time when they couldn\u2019t go to the movies, and they haven\u2019t had something made for them that gets them off their iPad and into theaters. Suddenly they have two movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cObsession<\/em> this weekend went up 20 percent from last weekend,\u201d Blum continued. \u201cLast weekend it went up 30 percent from the opening weekend. No movie has done that, gone up two weekends in a row, since E.T. <\/em>It is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the conversation, Wan, whose directing credits include Saw, The Conjuring<\/em> and Insidious, <\/em>spoke about where his passion for genre storytelling originated and how horror\u2019s success continues to help the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been a horror fan since I was a kid, and so naturally I grew up on a steady diet of horror movies through the \u201980s and \u201990s, inspired by great filmmakers like John Carpenter and Wes Craven,\u201d Wan said. \u201cI look at them and think, \u2018You know what? I kind of want to do what they did.\u2019 Today we kind of mimic that model. And here we are. I say this to anyone who will listen: The horror genre keeps saving our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the future of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, which includes television, gaming and live-events divisions and officially closed its merger deal in 2024, the producers said they plan to \u201cadapt with the audience\u201d and refuse to \u201cget comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s the aspiration?\u201d Blum asked. \u201c\u2018The Disney of horror\u2019 is the aspiration in five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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