Imagine Entertainment has set its roster of participants of Impact 2, the inventive program where the company empowers outside voices, “creators,” paying the newcomers accepted to the program to develop TV series and movies under the watchful eye of “shapers,” a group of established industry writers and showrunners. Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Basso has been set by director Ron Howard for the lead role of J.D Wade in Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix. Basso will star opposite Amy Adams and Glenn Close for director Ron Howard.

Basso previously co-starred in J.J. Abrams's Super 8, Jordan Vogt-Robert's The Kings of Summer and The Whole Truth…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have promoted Karen Lunder to be President of Imagine Features. Under her new position, Lunder will continue to oversee the company's feature film production and development. She joined Imagine as a film exec in 2017.

Lunder is currently overseeing H…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has won a four-way bidding battle for Tunga, an original animated family adventure musical from Godwin Jabangwe, for a mid-six figure guarantee.

At an unprecedented moment of inclusion that has gripped the Hollywood creative community after the shameful #MeToo scandals, Tunga is an important…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Documentaries has partnered with three-time NBA champion Dwyane Wade for a definitive documentary chronicling the 13-time All Star guard’s NBA career and life off the court as Wade goes through his final season in the league. The film will be directed by Bob Metelus, who is also producing alongside…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Impact is launching its second mentoring program. The program launched last year, to find new writer voices and give them a seat at the table, pairing them with a veteran mentor and giving them a paid eight-week creative boot camp to develop saleable screenplays, teleplays and presentations that…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment principals Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have launched Imagine Kids & Family, a new division that will be run by Stephanie Sperber. The label will develop and produce premium animated and live-action feature films, television series and short-form content across all platforms in the kids…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films is in final talks to acquire North American rights to Pavarotti, the Ron Howard-directed feature documentary on the iconic tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The plan is for a theatrical release later this year, sources said.

The film was scripted by Mark Monroe, who recently worked with Howard in the Grammy…

EXCLUSIVE: Five months after announcing plans to provide an unprecedented Hollywood gateway for new voices and talent in movies and television, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment offshoot Imagine Impact will hold its first "Pitch Day" on November 13. The daylong event will be held at the WeWork…

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest in a series of moves to diversify their venerable production company, Imagine Entertainment chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have acquired a majority state in Marginal Mediaworks and will work with founder/CEO Sanjay Sharma to generate controlled-budget films, premium short- and long-form…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have started an innovative offshoot program to supplement the films they make. In an effort to streamline the movie development process, they’ve thinned the ranks of creative executives and will instead empower entrepreneurial producers who…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Documentaries has begun production on Dads, a feature documentary that Bryce Dallas Howard is directing. The film is described as a humorous look at what it means to be a father in the modern era across the globe. It's the first feature length documentary set under the banner of the recently formed…