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Horror Producer Jason Blum is Battling Coronavirus
Just a few days after Thanksgiving; on November 29, Hollywood producer Jason Blum took to social media and announced that he tested positive for COVID-19.
Tested positive. It’s Coronamania at my house. Symptoms mild so far but will keep ya’ll posted.
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) November 30, 2020
Since then he has been giving his fans health updates through Twitter concerning his recovery. He said it was “coronamania” in his house, but his symptoms were mild.
A day later Blum said he was feeling better and was even able to work.
Update from Camp Covid is pretty good this AM. Feeling tired but overall not bad. No temp. Was very happy to see team @blumhouse on zoom this am and get all your great well wishes!
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) November 30, 2020
Blum’s year may have ended up abysmal, but his company has been keeping audiences entertained during the pandemic. In February his production house released The Invisible Man which was a critical and theatrical box office smash.
The next month America shut its movie houses, but not before The Hunt made its brief run then went to Video on Demand shortly thereafter.
Fast forward to a little later in the year and his partnership with Amazon Prime with four scary stories in his Welcome to the Blumhouse series. In October The Craft got a Blumhouse produced sequel and this month the acclaimed body switch slasher Freaky is making a VOD premiere.
Blum has tried to remain optimistic throughout his illness, but COVID is not making it easy. “I am trying to dominate the disease but for some reason, it’s not working,” he wrote on Nov. 30.
In his latest update, Blum emphasized the importance of taking safety precautions in order to avoid getting sick.
Feeling better today, folks. The pain in my leg was from lifting our Christmas tree. Pathetic! Don’t wind up like me. Don’t get covid. Wash hands and distance and mask up. The vaccine will here before ya’ know it.
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) December 2, 2020
Fans have shown their support during his recovery and sent him Twitter’s equivalent of get well wishes through tweets.
“What!? Oh no; I had no idea that you had been suffering with Covid. I hope that you have a full and speedy recovery with no lingering side effects,” wrote Trixie Doodle.
Wrote another fan: “Get well soon. Take care. You has to be ready to go into production of #HalloweenEnds.”
Next year is already proving to be busy one for the producer. With about 24 projects either still in the works or in post, including Halloween Kills, Blumhouse will hit the ground running in 2021.
We at iHorror wish Jason Blum a speedy recovery.
Header image: Jason Blum – Twitter
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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