DARK
SKIES
2013
Written and directed by Scott Stewart
With Keri Russell (Lacy Barrett), Josh Hamilton (Daniel Barrett),
Dakota Goyo (Jesse Barrett), Kaden Rockett (Sam Barrett)
Spoiler alert: moderate
Jason Blum is a rare bird, a producer who is not only commercially
marketable, but whose marketability is totally justifiable. He's not marketable by name (yet), but by reputation: what you
actually see on the poster is “from the producer of Paranormal
Activity and Insidious [and/or Sinister],” but it
does get people interested. This kind of marketing is hardly novel, but ordinarily the actual "producer of" credit is etched onto the poster using IBM’s
atomic data storage technology, and almost always these other movies bear the most tenuous of relationships to the movie being sold, that relationship being merely that the same salesman managed to sell each product. This isn't the case with Blum: he could be an even rarer bird, the producer who could almost be considered an
auteur in his own right.
