Bloomhouse Names Universal Head Abhijai Prakash as Chairman

Jason Bloom Blumhouse’s flag has a successor to President Charles Leighton.

Abhijai will accompany Leighton to Prague, an 8-year Blumhouse veteran who will oversee production. In Prague he was president of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, before that he was COO of DreamWorks Animation and Focus Features separately.

Leighton will become vice president and will remain in the strategic and advisory role for the next two years.

“From my tenure at Universal over the years, it was clear that no one else in the business was as competent at figuring out how to extract value from content as the team at Blumhouse,” Prakash said in a statement Monday.

“We are excited because we feel the stars are joining us for Abhijai at a time when he was ready to resume his day-to-day activities and remain active as a part-time vice president,” Leighton said in a statement. .

Bloomhouse will release five films in theaters this year, including black phone Directed by Scott Derrickson. Other releases include end of halloween, BJ Novak’s directorial debut, Revenge; s DASHCAM.

On the television front, Bloomhouse ran NBC things in pam, starring Rene Zellweger; and netflix The worst friend in the room and a documentary ㅡ Show me.

Source: Hollywood Reporter