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Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster Have Officially Joined Forces to Create a Horror Megapower

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Originally announced over one year ago, the deal has now been inked. “Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have officially joined forces,” Jason Blum announced on Twitter tonight.

This means that James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions are now under the same roof – it was described last year as “a mega house of chills and thrills” – and the combined company has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures.

THR details, “Under the deal, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will work as separate labels and retain creative independence, with a three-way ownership structure split by Blum, the majority owner; Wan; and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.”

Variety had reported back in November 2022, “Atomic Monster is expecting to utilize the existing Blumhouse infrastructure to further scale their activities in film, TV and new content areas. The idea behind the alliance is to increase the output from each side. They also hope to expand into horror-related games, live entertainment and audio.”

Furthermore, Variety had noted in their report, Blum is said to be “pushing for Blumhouse to make at least eight horror movies for release in theaters each year, up from the three or four it has historically delivered. And he wants to make another slate of horror flicks for Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. Blumhouse also makes television series.”

Stay tuned for more on this massive joint venture as we learn it.

Blumhouse and Wan’s production company have partnered several times in the past on various different horror projects, with their co-produced Night Swim in theaters this Friday.

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Blumhouse Gives New Release Dates to ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,’ ‘M3GAN 2.0’ and ‘The Black Phone 2 ‘

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Blumhouse has announced a trio of upcoming horror movie release dates today, the first of which is the official date for the sequel to hit video game movie Five Nights at Freddy’s.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will release in theaters December 5, 2025.

Released in theaters and available for streaming on Peacock on the same day, the Emma Tammi-directed Five Night’s at Freddy’s was Blumhouse’s highest grossing movie of all time. In other words, it’s no surprise that the sequel was quickly greenlit.

In last year’s horror movie, “After accepting a security guard job from Steve (Matthew Lillard; Scream, Scooby Doo), Mike (Josh Hutcherson; The Hunger Games Franchise) discovers an abandoned restaurant may actually be haunted by murderous animatronics.”

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Two other upcoming Blumhouse sequels have also received new dates, with M3GAN 2.0 now coming to theaters on June 27, 2025, previously announced for May 16, 2025.

Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are back for the sequel, with Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN) once again writing the script and James Wan on board to produce.

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And then there’s The Black Phone 2, which had been set for theatrical release on June 27, 2025. That date taken by M3GAN’s sequel, it’s now releasing October 17, 2025.

Ethan Hawke will be back as The Grabber, with Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, Incoming), Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs), Jeremy Davies (Justified) and Miguel Mora (The Black Phone) also set to return.

Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill will be writing and producing the upcoming sequel.

Additionally, Blumhouse and Universal’s The Woman in the Yard will release on March 28, 2025, with Christopher Landon’s thriller Drop coming to theaters on April 11, 2025.

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