Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Focus Features President Robert Walak will be stepping down from his position and moving into an advisory consulting role with the Universal specialty studio.
Walak will continue to work with Focus on projects he helped shepherd into development while there, and there are no plans to replace him in the role of President.
The respected and well-liked Brit, who relocated to Los Angeles two years ago, joined Focus in 2016 after arriving at Universal as Co-Managing Director of UPIP in 2015.
During his Focus tenure, the studio’s films have garnered 28 Academy Award nominations on titles such as Jeff Nichols’ Loving, Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, Paul Thomas.
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