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Peter D. Graves

History

Peter D. Graves, President of Cinemarket, has more than twenty years of experience as a producer, marketing executive and strategic planner for the film business, including co-President of PolyGram Films. As a marketing executive, he has been directly involved in creating feature film campaigns for over 250 films, representing over $4 billion in worldwide box office gross. He has also Produced or Executive Produced ten films, including Terminator Salvation, Motel, Killer Elite, Planet 51, and W., as well as the executive marketing consultant for numerous other films, including The Bank Job, Defiance, The Producers (2005); Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003); Love Actually (2003); The Perfect Storm (2000); K-19; Alexander; The Score; Enemy at the Gates (2001); and The Wedding Planner (2001). Operating as Producer or Executive Advisor, Graves provides strategic oversight, financial modeling and management of a film's entire revenue waterfall performance in both domestic and international markets. From 1996 to 2000, Graves was President of Marketing at PolyGram Films. During this time, PolyGram and its Gramercy label releases included The Game; Bean; Elizabeth; and The Big Lebowski. Prior to this, Graves provided executive marketing consulting on such films as Braveheart; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Fargo; Maverick; Nell; French Kiss; Forever Young; GI Jane; Mr. Holland's Opus; Dead Man Walking; and The Usual Suspects, as well as overseeing the entire PolyGram/Gramercy release schedule from 1992 to 2000. Graves also has a strong financial and managerial entertainment business background as a corporate officer at MGM/UA and Warner Communications. He was educated at Dartmouth College and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Movies

Executive Producer

A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.

Executive Producer

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.

Producer

A criminal waits in a seedy motel for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag.

Executive Producer

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

Vanishing on 7th Street

Vanishing on 7th Street

Executive Producer

A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Executive Producer

Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy.

Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation

Executive Producer

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.