Blum also produced Insidious (2010), Sinister (2012), The Purge (2013), and Creep (2014), all of which became potential franchises. In 2014, he served as an executive Producer on the television film The Normal Heart, which went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, and the drama film Whiplash, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.