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EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has tapped Netflix executive Kristen Zolner as Head of Imagine Television. This marks the first major executive hire since Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, co-founders of Imagine-owned Jax Media, were named Presidents of Imagine Entertainment this month, overseeing film and television…

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive acquisition situation ahead of the documentary’s Tribeca Festival premiere, MSNBC Films has picked up Paper & Glue from Imagine Documentaries, Impact Partners, TIME Studios, and Shark Island. The feature is a project by acclaimed French artist JR, whose known for giving a global…

John Mayer made an honest mistake. He claims he was asked to participate in the infamous Gal Gadot celebrity singalong version of the John Lennon song Imagine, a somewhat ham-handed effort at comfort that was greeted like an aisle with no toilet paper by the internet mobs. A deadpan Mayer confessed his confusion in…

As hard as it may be to conceive, there are worse things than being confined to your home. Like having to listen to celebrities sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine as you contemplate killing for toilet paper. Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot meant well, bless her heart, by organizing the online songfest. The problem is…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has come out on top in a red-hot auction for the film version of J.D. Vance's lauded bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, which Ron Howard is directing and The Shape Of Water co-writer Vanessa Taylor is adapting. Netflix will fully finance the pic to the tune of $45M. There were multiple high net worth…

LennoNYC director Michael Epstein is making a feature-length documentary about John Lennon's Imagine record for British broadcaster Channel 4. The 90-minute film – John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky – will feature unseen archive and access to John's estate to tell the story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono against the backdrop…

In a competitive situation with a number of studios and production companies pursuing, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine has made a two-year first-look deal with The Atavist Magazine for film and television. Under the pact, Imagine will develop film and television projects based on upcoming Atavist articles and…

Ron Howard spent time on stage at Cannes Lions today for a discussion with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and WPP CEO Martin Sorrell. While he touched on his new Han Solo movie gig, Howard also talked about how Imagine is evolving; the impact of technology on the business; and a trio of Broadway…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most popular surf movies, Blue Crush, is headed to television. NBC has given a script commitment with penalty to a series based on the 2002 Imagine feature directed by John Stockwell, which starred Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake. Lizzy Weiss, who co-wrote the movie with…

Oscar-winning Imagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have issued the following statement in favor of the Screening Room, Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju’s day-and-date streaming concept. Their response comes a little more than 24 hours after Peter Jackson expressed his vocal support of the proposed…

At today’s Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit San Francisco, Imagine Entertainment Co-chairman and producer Brian Grazer told Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang: “I'm going to do a movie with Netflix. … I'm going to do a tour-de-force movie that's cinéma vérité with Eddie Murphy being as raw as he can be.” However…

When Terrence Howard was asked at last night’s Awardsline screening of Fox’s Empire what brought him to the music industry/family drama series, the Oscar-nominated actor quipped, “The I.R.S.!” Howard then clarified that it was actually his former Hustle & Flow co-star Taraji P. Henson — who played his onscreen love…