"It's the witching hour here," says Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski during a late-afternoon Zoom from his home office in Toluca Lake, as the tail of an indeterminate animal whizzes by. "This is when the dogs start to go crazy and then the children go crazy with the dogs and it just …," he trails off.
Despite the daily dose of chaos — with two daughters under the age of 7, two dogs and a cat — the specialty label maven may have just wrapped his most productive and profitable back-to-back years ever with a 2020 slate that included Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always and the Dawn Porter-helmed doc The Way I See It — all of which racked up impressive results on premium VOD.