Focus Features Professional Peter Kujawski Takes Purchases Professional Veep Publish at Universal

Universal Pictures co-chairman Donna Langley hired Peter Kujawski towards the publish of EVP Worldwide Purchases. Kujawski is presently EVP Worldwide Sales for that Universal-possessed niche film label Focus Features. The Universal features team got a election of confidence when chairman Adam Fogelson was handed an earlier re-up, and Langley can also be settling to increase her term using the studio. Kujawski is billed with centralizing and streamlining Universal’s purchases and to enhance distribution possibilities. He’ll are accountable to Langley and become located in La. He isn’t changing anybody directly, but does get a few of the slack left when Christian Grass left the studio in This summer. Kujawski will even work carefully with Universal Pictures Leader of Worldwide David Kosse. “Peter’s huge experience selling niche films gives him a distinctive perspective around the global marketplace and undeniably qualifies him to guide our purchases efforts,” Langley stated. At Focus, Kujawski has offered such films as Volver, House of Flying Daggers and Curse from the Golden Flower, Eternal Sunshine from the Spotless Mind, Burn After Reading through, Lost in Translation, The Continual Garden enthusiast, Eastern Promises and Brokeback Mountain. Recent sales range from the Joe Wright-directed Hanna, Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas and also the Roger Michell-directed Hyde Park around the Hudson. Kujawski continues to be with Focus since 2002, and before he labored with Focus Boss James Schamus at Good Machine before that company was made available to Universal when Schamus came aboard.