Blumhouse Soars Past $1 Billion in 2025, Breaking a 25-Year Record
Blumhouse caps 2025 with its biggest scare yet, smashing past $1 billion at the global box office—the first billion-dollar year in the studio’s 25-year history.
Blumhouse just wrapped 2025 with a flex: the studio and its Atomic Monster partner crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. First time that has ever happened in the company’s 25-year history, and yes, it came on the back of a very horror-heavy year.
What they hit and why it matters
Per Deadline’s tally, the combined 2025 slate from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster pulled in about $1.022 billion worldwide. That figure covers 10 films released across the year and marks the strongest box office run the company has ever had in a single calendar year. If you like the industry-wonk detail: the reported combined production spend for those movies was $204 million before marketing. For horror, the old math still works.
The 2025 scoreboard
- The Conjuring: Last Rites – $494.6 million worldwide, the year’s top earner and released under Atomic Monster
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 – $201.8 million and still in theaters
- Black Phone 2 – $132.1 million
- The Monkey – $68.8 million
- M3GAN 2.0 – $39 million
- Plus five other 2025 releases rounding out the 10-film slate to approximately $1.022 billion worldwide
Lean budgets, big returns
Not every title popped, but taken as a group, these movies were made cheap and earned wide. $204 million in reported production costs across 10 films is very on-brand for Blumhouse, and it worked. The slate leaned hard on franchises and recognizable brands, and audiences clearly showed up.
Post-merger context
This milestone hits just over a year after Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster finalized their merger in January 2024. Their previous best run was 2023, when Blumhouse’s M3GAN, Insidious: The Red Door, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and The Black Phone combined for $821.9 million worldwide. Atomic Monster was also in the mix that year with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and The Nun II adding notable extra fuel.
What’s next
The pipeline is loaded. On deck: The Mummy, a sixth Insidious installment, Other Mommy, Obsession, and Mortal Kombat II. If 2025 is any indication, they are not backing off the brand-driven game plan anytime soon.