He struck a 10-year, multiplatform deal with Universal in 2014 produced the Oscar best picture nominee Whiplash and was a key player on HBO's much-discussed documentary series The Jinx. Since the $15,000 horror film earned $193 million worldwide, he has birthed such horror franchises as The Purge, Sinister and Insidious. It was one of the toughest times in my life." Now he's riding high, having built a microbudget film empire that kicked off with 2007's Paranormal Activity. "I went from being at the top of everyone's phone sheet to the bottom. and went from being a razzle-dazzle Miramax exec to a guy schlepping scripts in his crummy Ford Escort. In 2000, Blum, 46, moved from New York to L.A. Says Fellner, "The good producers are the ones who bite into a bone and won't let go." Among the producers' upcoming movies are a few that might add to their nearly $6 billion in box office and 71 Oscar nominations, including the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar! Sofia Coppola's live-action The Little Mermaid and, hopefully, the latest in the Bridget Jones saga, Bridget Jones's Baby. "Working so far from Hollywood allows us to protect our directors," says the London-based Fellner, who, with Bevan, has had a first-look deal with Universal since 1999. Those films helped boost the careers of directors Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper and James Marsh, and the company remains unusually auteur-friendly. They've done it by investing in often-unlikely material like Theory, about British physicist Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS, which won Eddie Redmayne a best actor Oscar. In their dry, low-key British way, Bevan, 57, and Fellner, 55, have managed to make some of the most original and arresting films of the past 30 years - from 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette to 2012's Les Miserables to last year's The Theory of Everything. "There's always a way to get something done." " 'No' is never the answer, no matter what," says Form. After three releases in 2014, they're working on sequels to Ouija and Purge and a reboot of Friday the 13th. They've recently launched another Paramount franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which earned $485 million globally in 2014, along with new ventures in the microbudget world that they stepped into just a few years ago when they realized the mid-budget horror genre was dead. and his home base in Miami (where he stays in touch with the team via a digital command center), while Fuller, 49, and Form, 46, stick to Santa Monica (that's when they're not traveling for their various TV series, such as Black Sails and The Last Ship). They rarely are in one place at the same time: Bay operates out of both L.A. With a combination of big-budget, high-testosterone movies ( Transformers, which Bay, 50, produces with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura) and low-budget genre hits ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Purge), Bay and his longtime partners have become a moviemaking machine.
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