Blumhouse has acquired the rights to The New York Times' story about Miriam Rodríguez, the Mexican mother who fearlessly tracked down the kidnappers who abducted and murdered her daughter, Karen.Rodriguez -- who went on to become a prominent human rights activist, helping to imprison 10 members of the local cartel in San Fernando -- was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day in 2017. Blumhouse won the rights to the Times story, titled "She Stalked Her...
Blumhouse Productions
Jason
Blum
Founder / CEO
Blum is remarkably prolific, pumping out horror films year after year under his Blumhouse banner, but even he was slowed by the pandemic. While the dark cinematic reimagining of “Fantasy Island” and Aussie Leigh Whannell’s feminist take on “The Invisible Man” made it into theaters before the shutdown, other projects saw their theatrical releases waylaid, including “The Hunt,” which opened just as theaters were closing, and several titles that went digital, such as “The Craft: Legacy” on VOD and four films sold to Amazon for October releases. But Blum kept priming his production pipeline, signing Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures to a three-year first-look deal and fast-tracking a new take on “Wolfman” for Universal.