Blumhouse Atomic Monster is now just Blumhouse Atomic

Jason Blum and James Wan dropped the "Monster," and it's cleaner.

Blumhouse Atomic Monster is now just Blumhouse Atomic

Two years after combining horror houses, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster have dropped the “Monster” in favor of a cleaner title: Blumhouse Atomic. “When we merged our companies, we believed the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts, and that is exactly what has happened,” Blum said in a statement to Deadline. “Blumhouse Atomic is a natural evolution of what we’ve built together. The Conjuring franchise, Insidious, Saw, no filmmaker has created more horror franchises than James Wan, and together we’ve brought some of the genre’s most recognizable properties under one roof. Bringing Saw back to James, with a new chapter on the way, is a perfect example of what we can do together. We have the output of a studio with the creative freedom and financial discipline of an independent company, and more opportunities than ever to take these stories beyond the theater and into television, games and live experiences.”

Under the Blumhouse Atomic umbrella, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will continue developing films and TV shows separately. Since the 2024 merger, the two production companies have been behind recent lucrative horror movies like Obsession, Backrooms, and Insidious Out Of The Further. With a reported budget of less than $1 million, Curry Barker’s Obsession grossed $519 million worldwide and became Focus Features’ highest-grossing film ever, while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms grossed over $400 million globally, becoming A24’s highest-grossing release of all time. Next, Blumhouse Atomic will produce The Exorcist: Martyrs,  Barker’s “buddy comedy” Anything But Ghosts and the horror film Sleepover starring Parker Posey. “The future of horror comes from new voices, and Blumhouse Atomic gives us more ways to find them and support them for the long haul,” Wan told Deadline. “I got my start with a small film and people willing to take a chance on it, so creating those opportunities for others is personal to me. Working with filmmakers like Kane Parsons, Curry Barker, Josh Giuliano and Dylan Clark is a big part of that. We want to give them the freedom to make something distinctive and build relationships that last beyond one film.”

 
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