12 Facts About Andrew Vajna

Andrew Vajna moved to Hong Kong where he established his own wig manufacturing company, called Gilda Fashion.

Andrew Vajna launched his career in the entertainment industry with his purchase of motion picture theatres in the Far East.

In 1982, Andrew Vajna was a founder and then president of the American Film Marketing Association.

Andrew Vajna was executive producer with Mario Kassar on such films such as Alan Parker's Angel Heart, and Rambo III.

In December 1989, Andrew Vajna sold all his interest in Carolco for $106 million and formed Cinergi Productions, Inc to engage in the financing, development, production and distribution of major event motion pictures.

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Andrew Vajna's strategy was to develop long-term relationships with certain talent and produce a steady supply of two to four event motion pictures per year.

Andrew Vajna never forgot his Hungarian roots and always tried to help the Hungarian film industry.

In 1989 Andrew Vajna founded InterCom that has become a market-leader and a distributor of many Hollywood studios, including 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros.

In 1998, Andrew Vajna took Cinergi private by buying out the public stockholders.

In 2005 Andrew Vajna was, together with Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu, the executive producer of a feature-length documentary called Freedom's Fury, created by Colin Keith Gray and Megan Raney Aarons, which showed his renewed interest in the story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

From 2011 Andrew Vajna worked as the Government Commissioner in charge of the Hungarian film industry.

Andrew Vajna died of a heart attack at his home in Budapest on 20 January 2019 at age 74.