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Endpoint: Jason Blumenthal



created on: 13/07/2016
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Jason Blumenthal (born Los Angeles, USA) is an American Film Producer.

He graduated from Crossroads School for the Arts and attended Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications.
After graduation in 1990, Jason joined Wizan/Black Films in that same year. There, he was involved with the development and production of Iron Eagle II, Split Decisions, The Guardian, Short Time, Class Act, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Dunston Checks In, A Family Thing, and Bio Dome. They also executive produced Becoming Colette and Fire In The Sky.

Jason was Senior Vice President of Feature Production at Mandalay Entertainment from the company’s inception in 1995 through March of 1998. During his tenure as Senior Vice President, Jason managed Mandalay’s production slate which included such films as The Fan, Donnie Brasco, Seven Years in Tibet, Les Miserables, Wild Things, Gloria, and The Deep End of the Ocean. One of Mandalay’s biggest box office successes was I Know What You Did Last Summer, which went on to be #1 at the box office for three weeks and grossed more than $130 million worldwide, spawning the sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

In April 1998, Jason and his partner Todd Black formed Black & Blu Entertainment and entered into a first look production deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2001, Black & Blu merged with the Steve Tisch Co. (producers of Forrest Gump) to become Escape Artists Productions, LLC, (often using the business name Escape Artists) while still maintaining their first look deal at Sony Pictures.
Escape Artists Productions, LLC has since produced A Knight’s Tale, starring Heath Ledger; and Antwone Fisher, directed by and starring Denzel Washington, which was released through Fox Searchlight. Before the success of The Pursuit of Happyness, which went on to gross more than $300 million worldwide, they produced The Weather Man directed by Gore Verbisnki and starring Nic Cagea and Michael Caine. Escape Artists also released the Alex Proyas thriller Knowing starring Nic Cage, Seven Pounds starring Will Smith, and The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 directed by Tony Scott, and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
Among Escape Artists’ more recent films is Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones; and The Equalizer, reuniting Denzel Washington and Training Day director, Antoine Fuqua.
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Submitted by : bob (9220)
on : 13/07/2016