Blumhouse Names Lisa Niedenthal Head Of Physical Production, Promotes Jon Romano To SVP

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EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse is centralizing their physical production groups across film and television into one department, led by Lisa Niedenthal, a four-year TV vet for the studio.

Jon Romano, who joined Blumhouse in 2019, has been upped to SVP Physical Production and will oversee production for all feature projects, both theatrical and streaming, reporting to Niedenthal.“I’m thrilled that Lisa Niedenthal will be heading our combined physical production team.

She has demonstrated excellent leadership during her tenure at Blumhouse, and her expertise will serve the company well,” said Jason Blum, CEO and Founder of Blumhouse. “I’m grateful for how this came together internally, and for the approach and attitude that Lisa Niedenthal, Jonny Romano and the company’s leadership embraced as they worked through this so thoughtfully.”“The leverage our shared production footprint will bring us is vast.

The move to combine physical production will make us more competitive as a company, and allow us to take a higher level approach to hiring crews across TV and film projects, better strategize on production tax credits, streamline systems and processes, and will give us the ability to flex and deploy our staff and internal resources,” said Niedenthal. “I’m looking forward to working more closely with Jonny and the rest of the stellar physical production team at Blumhouse.”Before her promotion, Niedenthal served as EVP and Head of Production, for Blumhouse Television, overseeing physical production on all scripted and unscripted projects.