We used Bayesian g-computation to estimate effects of a simulated public health action on exposure mixtures and birth weights in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2011–2013. In July 2019, he bought a Brooklyn Heights townhouse for $9.8 million.The importance of studying the health impacts of exposure mixtures is increasingly being recognized, but such research presents many methodological and interpretation difficulties.
On July 14, 2012, Blum married journalist Lauren A.E.
Boards īlum is on the Board of The Public Theater in New York, the Sundance Institute, Vassar College and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. On August 14, 2020, Daily Front Row listed Blum as one of a group of high-profile investors who purchased W magazine, a troubled fashion magazine. In 2019, Sophia Takal directed and co-wrote the studio's horror remake Black Christmas, which opened on December 13, and was the studio's first theatrically-released film by a female director. In 2018, Blum said in an interview that the reason no woman had ever directed one of his horror films was that "there are not a lot of female directors (.) and even less who are inclined to do horror." After much criticism on social media, in which lists of such directors were circulated, he apologized for what he called his "dumb comments". īlum's feature films BlacKkKlansman, Whiplash and Get Out were all nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2015, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for HBO's The Jinx. In 2014, he served as executive producer for the television film The Normal Heart, which went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. īlum also produced Insidious (2010), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), and Happy Death Day (2017), as well as their sequels. In addition, NPR's Planet Money did a special podcast about the company's methods. Bloomberg News praised Blum for making "blockbusters for pennies", including the horror film Paranormal Activity which cost $15,000 to make and then grossed nearly $200 million.
In 2000, he founded Blumhouse Productions, which specializes in producing micro-budget movies that give directors full creative control over the projects. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around to Hollywood executives. He obtained financing for his first film as producer, Kicking and Screaming (1995), after receiving a letter from family acquaintance, entertainer Steve Martin, who endorsed the script. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Blum is a 1991 graduate of Vassar College. Prior to his tenure at Miramax, Blum was a producing director at Ethan Hawke's Malaparte theater company. Career īlum worked for Bob and Harvey Weinstein as an executive at Miramax, and later as an independent producer for Paramount Pictures. While at Vassar, he and fellow future filmmaker, Noah Baumbach, were roommates, and Blum produced Baumbach's first film, Kicking and Screaming in 1995. He graduated from Vassar College in 1991. His mother was an art professor and his father was an independent art dealer and director of the Ferus Gallery. Blum was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Shirley Neilsen Blum (née Neilsen) and Irving Blum.