When I recently spoke to Blumhouse Productions founder Jason Blum about his new horror-themed game show, Hellevator, I also asked him a bit about the end of the Paranormal Activity series, which wraps up with the newly-released Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Blum has served as producer on the entire series, having worked with the original film’s writer/director Oren Peli to re-edit the movie and eventually get the $15,000 production major studio distribution via Paramount, where it turned into a huge hit. Five follow-ups followed, including The Ghost Dimension, all of which follow Blumhouse’s successful strategy of micro-budgets, making even the lower grossing installments notably profitable. So why was it time to end the story? Blum gave me his thoughts.
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Blum has served as producer on the entire series, having worked with the original film’s writer/director Oren Peli to re-edit the movie and eventually get the $15,000 production major studio distribution via Paramount, where it turned into a huge hit. Five follow-ups followed, including The Ghost Dimension, all of which follow Blumhouse’s successful strategy of micro-budgets, making even the lower grossing installments notably profitable. So why was it time to end the story? Blum gave me his thoughts.
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