![]() ![]() “It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be,” he says. “I thought it was going to be fun. But I would rather trust the director than an executive over what’s amazing and perfect.”īlum has already realized his dream of “making a really expensive movie” with Dwayne Johnson starrer “Tooth Fairy” and has never looked back. “When the budgets are so big, the people in charge need to think the script is amazing and perfect before they say ‘yes’. We don’t do that, because our movies are not expensive,” he explains. “I thought: ‘O.K, so they talk on the phone in the basement.’ In Hollywood, everything is about ego, so most companies will say ‘no’ if they are so-so on the script. Such an approach allows risk-taking, he says, mentioning Derrickson’s “The Black Phone,” which he produced despite not “getting” the script. On our $4 million movie, 100% of time is spent on making a good movie.” On a $200 million movie, the director is spending 80% of their time on politics and 20% actually making the movie. “The way studio filmmaking works is correlated to budget, the more expensive the movie, the more time the director is strategizing on how they are going to get their way. We give them more control than they typically get in Hollywood, but they have to give us something as well: a commitment to make movies inexpensively.” “We borrowed the French auteur system and applied it to very commercial filmmaking. Pointing out that at Blumhouse Productions, directors “trade big budgets for control.” You have a new management, so they want a new start and to brand DC in a certain way,” he says. “I was surprised by it but I understood why they chose to do it. The nearly completed $90 million movie was shelved by Warner Bros. “He is very good at respecting intellectual property that already exists and putting a new spin on it.”īlum also talked about the recent “Batgirl” debacle, one that has left the industry buzzing. And feels different enough so that people are happy we did it,” he notes, admitting Gordon Green was the “first choice” to direct it. Hopefully, we will do the same thing with ‘The Exorcist’ that we did with ‘Halloween’ – make it in a way that’s fresh and worth revisiting. He will reunite with “Halloween” star Jamie Lee Curtis, however, who signed a first-look deal with Blumhouse (“She is not only a great actress but really understands the business,” he says, mentioning upcoming series “Sticky” about a maple syrup heist) while helmer David Gordon Green will move onto “The Exorcist.”
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