Blumhouse and Atomic Monster Are Now “Blumhouse Atomic,” and Saw Is Back on Their Slate

Two years after they merged, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster have settled on what to call themselves: Blumhouse Atomic. The new umbrella name was announced Tuesday and reported by Variety, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster both continue as distinct production labels, each with its own creative team developing film and TV under its own banner.

“When we merged our companies, we believed the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts and that is exactly what has happened,” Blum said in the announcement. “Blumhouse Atomic is a natural evolution of what we’ve built together. The Conjuring franchise, Insidious, Saw, no filmmaker has created more horror franchises than James Wan, and together we’ve brought some of the genre’s most recognizable properties under one roof. Bringing Saw back to James, with a new chapter on the way, is a perfect example of what we can do together.”

Blum summed up the pitch as “the output of a studio with the creative freedom and financial discipline of an independent company, and more opportunities than ever to take these stories beyond the theater and into television, games and live experiences.”

Wan framed it around new filmmakers. “The future of horror comes from new voices, and Blumhouse Atomic gives us more ways to find them and support them for the long haul,” he said. “I got my start with a small film and people willing to take a chance on it, so creating those opportunities for others is personal to me. Working with filmmakers like Kane Parsons, Curry Barker, Josh Giuliano and Dylan Clark is a big part of that. We want to give them the freedom to make something distinctive and build relationships that last beyond one film.”

What’s on the slate

Plenty. The 2027 film lineup, per the announcement, is River, The Revenge of La Llorona, The Exorcist: Martyrs, Anything But Ghosts, Paranormal Activity, Molepeople, Blair Witch, Sleepover and Seasons. On TV: USA’s The Rainmaker, Prime Video’s Scarpetta and Netflix’s Worst Ever franchise. Beyond that, the game Grave Seasons, Paranormal Activity on Broadway, and the company’s ongoing Halloween Horror Nights collaborations with Universal.

The Saw line is the one to watch. Per Deadline, the company picked up the franchise rights last year, reuniting Wan with the series he co-created with Leigh Whannell; Lionsgate keeps its existing ownership and distribution rights, and Content Partners and Mark Burg hold interests in the back catalog. Blum’s “new chapter on the way” is the first time the company has put that in a formal statement.

The low-budget machine is also still the point. The company hired Shudder’s Sam Zimmerman this year as SVP of development and acquisitions with a brief to build a slate of genre features under $5 million, and signed a first-look deal with Divide/Conquer in late 2025 for high-concept, cost-efficient projects. River, which Universal bought out of TIFF, came through that pipeline. So: one name on the door, two labels inside, and a business model that hasn’t changed since Paranormal Activity cost $15,000.

Sources: Variety; Deadline (Anthony D’Alessandro, Nov. 3, 2026); The Hollywood Reporter.