JASON BLUMENTHAL (Producer) has been a partner at Escape Artists since its inception, and an integral part in the development and production of such blockbusters as The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith, The Equalizer film series starring Denzel Washington, and the Apple television series Servant with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan.

Other films that Blumenthal has produced under the Escape Artists banner include The Upside starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston, Southpaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Sex Tape starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal, Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, The Back-up Plan starring Jennifer Lopez, Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith, and Knowing and The Weather Man, both starring Nicolas Cage.

In 1990, after graduating from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications, Blumenthal joined Wizan/Black Films, where he met Producer Todd Black. 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.

Blumenthal became Senior Vice President of feature production at Mandalay Entertainment at the company’s inception in 1995. He managed 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 was #1 at the box office for three weeks and grossed more than $130 million worldwide. It spawned the sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

In April 1998, Blumenthal and his partner, Todd Black, formed Black & Blu Entertainment, entering into a first look production deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2001, Black & Blu merged with the Steve Tisch Company to become Escape Artists.