Jason Blum has become the driving force in horror with his film, TV and gaming company Blumhouse. His company celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and Blum's new coffee table book HORROR'S NEW WAVE, replete with film stills, on-set photos, original story boards and more, captures Blumhouse's journey to become a powerhouse in the horror and thriller film genres.This lavishly illustrated visual compendium takes the reader through the process of concept to premiere for films like Five Nights at Freddy’s, Sinister, Split, Get Out, M3GAN, now-classic franchises like The Purge, along with iconic films from cinematic visionaries including Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and much more. Blum also delves into classic films that came before him and reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist to the Paranormal Activity and Halloween franchises. The book includes interviews with filmmakers and writers like M. Night Shyamalan, Leigh Whannell, James Wan, and Mike Flanagan; actors, such as Allison Williams, Ethan Hawke, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Octavia Spencer. This evening of conversation is for cinephiles, pop culture enthusiasts and lovers of horror. Virtual viewing starts 10/6 and remains available VOD for 5 days after.

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From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT EVERYONE KNOWS... COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Virtual viewing starts 10/13, 8pm and is available VOD for 5 days after.

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