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Sam Worthington EFM project; Leonine Buys ‘Asterix & Obelix: The Silk Road’; Ron Howard’s Imagine Launches Australia Initiative – Global Briefs
Sam Worthington will lead the cast of CounterPlay, which Blue Fox Entertainment is launching at EFM. Project comes from the newly established MAM Media in association with BlackOps Studios Asia. Shoot will take place in the Philippines. Worthington will play a retired hostage negotiator who comes out of retirement to…
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Ron Howard And Brian Grazer Talk Imagine Revamp, Streaming-Plus-Theatrical: “It’s A Pretty Great Model” – Toronto
Imagine partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer both take an upbeat view of the changes reshaping Hollywood, arguing that streaming has unmatched global reach even though it has altered theatrical releasing.
The pair kicked off Toronto’s five-day industry conference section with an hour-long conversation. They hit on…
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Imagine Taps Former Time Inc Chief Rich Battista For CEO Post
Rich Battista has been named the CEO of Imagine Entertainment, and will be joining the company immediately, based at its Beverly Hills headquarters.
Battista will work with Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and the company’s nearly 90 employees to build upon its growth and expansion strategy…
‘Peanuts In Space’ From Morgan Neville & Imagine OK’d For Launch On Apple TV
Morgan Neville, Imagine Documentaries, and Peanuts have teamed for Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10, a documentary of sorts that seeks to answer the question: Was Snoopy a world famous, top-secret astronaut? It will launch in May will be available in May on the Apple TV app. Aaron Bergeron wrote the…
Behrad Javed Joins Imagine Impact As Head Of Operations And Product
EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and Imagine Impact Head Tyler Mitchell have tapped Behrad Javed to lead Operations and Product at their content accelerator, Imagine Impact.
The company recently closed a deal with Netflix for the animated feature Tunga, from its inaugural…
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Former Imagine Entertainment CEO Charlie Corwin Joins Uproxx Advisory Board
Entertainment industry veteran Charlie Corwin has joined the advisory board of Uproxx, a digital publisher of entertainment and pop culture news that was acquired by Warner Music Group.
Corwin is the first member of the newly created advisory board, which will help guide Uproxx as it dives more deeply into film, TV…
Imagine Entertainment Broadens Footprint, Takes Majority Stake In Marginal Mediaworks
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…
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Brian Grazer, Ron Howard Launch Imagine’s Innovative Pod Producer Program With Bobby Cohen & Julie Oh
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…
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HanWay Films Boards Ron Howard’s Pavarotti Movie Ahead Of AFM, Production Under Way
EXCLUSIVE: HanWay Films has boarded international sales rights with White Horse Pictures to Ron Howard’s documentary about iconic opera singer Luciano Pavarotti.
Pavarotti, which will be on sale at the AFM, is being made by Universal Music Group's Polygram Entertainment, Decca Records (the singer’s lifelong record…
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Imagine Impact Teams With WeWork; Pacific Design Center Space To Serve As Hub For Incubator Program
EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Impact and WeWork have entered into a collaboration, where WeWork's Pacific Design Center space in West Hollywood will serve as home base for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s premium content accelerator program which is headed by Tyler Mitchell. Imagine Impact was launched earlier this year.
With…
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Imagine Entertainment Ups Karen Lunder To Head Film Development & Production
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has promoted Karen Lunder to EVP Production, overseeing film development and production.
Lunder joined Imagine a year ago as a senior motion picture executive under Imagine Entertainment president Erica Huggins. Lunder will now become the company’s top film…
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Imagine Sets Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Helming Debut: ‘Rent’ Creator Jonathan Larson’s ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’; ‘Evan Hansen’s Steven Levenson Scripting
EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up as a stage-to-film transfer with iconic Broadway talent, Imagine Entertainment has set Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to make his feature directorial debut on Tick, Tick…Boom! That is based on the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the late playwright behind the smash…
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