EXCLUSIVE: Seth MacFarlane is taking another major step in the ramp-up of his Fuzzy Door production company with the hire of veteran executive and producer Erica Huggins as President. Huggins is coming off a 14-year stint at Imagine Entertainment, the last five as President. Huggins’ appointment comes two years after…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has hired Karen Lunder to be a senior motion picture executive. The hire was made by Imagine president Erica Huggins. Lunder will immediately oversee The Spy Who Dumped Me, the comedy that stars Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon and Outlander‘s Sam Heughan. Huggins said Lunder “has extensive…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has won an auction for screen rights to Afterlife, the Marcus Sakey novel that went out to producers and studios last weekend. Sakey will write the screenplay. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Erica Huggins are producing along with Shane Salerno at The Story Factory. The book will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has bolstered its presence in New York, hiring Julie Oh to be vice president at Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production partnership. She reports to president Erica Huggins, who wanted an exec to connect with the theater writers and London talent that can transition to film and TV. Oh…

BREAKING: Longtime Imagine Entertainment executive Erica Huggins has been promoted to president of the production company by chairman and co-founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and co-chairman Michael Rosenberg. This comes while Huggins is producing Get On Up, the James Brown biopic at Universal that stars Chadwick Bo…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is putting together quite a package to adapt the 2003 Jon Krakauer book Under The Banner Of Heaven.In the deal coming together, Milk and J Edgar scribe Dustin Lance Black will write the script for Ron Howard to direct. Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer will produce with…

EXCLUSIVE: After Javier Bardem’s terrifying Oscar-winning turn as the assassin in No Country For Old Men, is there any doubt he’d fit as the gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that'll span three movies and a limited run TV series in between? I’m told…