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EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Steckler is exiting his post as President of Film Production at Imperative Entertainment to focus on producing under his newly launched shingle Enhanced Hammer. In addition to leading his production company, he will act as a consultant to Imperative Entertainment on select projects. Steckler arrived a…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci are doubling down on their podcast partnership. The two companies have signed a slate deal that includes three series – Operation Morning Light, The Paddlefish Caviar Heist and The Cost of Happiness. It comes after they previously partnered on true-crime audio series…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment, the company behind the Boomtown podcast, which is being adapted into a Billy Bob Thornton-fronted series from Taylor Sheridan, has set its latest Texas podcast. The company has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a series about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and…

EXCLUSIVE: As Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese ready their splashy reunion mob drama The Irishman to world premiere at the New York Film Festival before Netflix releases its this fall, the actor and director are getting closer to jumping right back in with the Imperative Entertainment-produced Paramount…

Imperative Entertainment has hired Jeremy Steckler to be its president of film production. Steckler comes from Condé Nast Entertainment Group, where he was EVP Motion Pictures and produced The Old Man and the Gun, Only the Brave and Mosul, the latter of which is in post-production at AGBO. At Imperative, Steckler will…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment has acquired rights to the next film from Alejandro Landes, whose film Monos was a buzz title at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning a special jury prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition and scoring a U.S. distribution deal with Neon. Details of the new project are…

EXCLUSIVE: Yorgos Lanthimos is set to write and direct Pop. 1280, an adaptation of the Jim Thompson crime novel for Imperative Entertainment. Element Pictures will produce with Imperative and Lanthimos, in association with Discovery Productions. Project is high priority. Lanthimos’ The Favourite is up for 10 Oscars…

Imperative Entertainment, the studio behind the Clint Eastwood movie The Mule and last year’s Ridley Scott-helmed All the Money in the World, has come aboard to produce Prince of War. The feature film will center on Erik Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded the controversial private military contracting firm…

6th Update/Writethru, Sunday AM, after Friday night and Saturday AM posts: With chart. Holiday distractions prevented Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse from getting any higher this weekend to what some were expecting would be a possible $40M start. That anticipation was fueled by the fact that this was a Marvel…

Angelina Jolie has attached to star in and produce for Imperative Entertainment an adaption of the James Scott frontier novel The Kept. Lady Macbeth scribe Alice Birch has been set to write the script and Imperative bought it as a package. Published by HarperCollins in 2014, the novel takes place in the winter of…

Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps and Roland Møller are starring in Lyrebird, the true story about an art forger who victimized the Nazis with bang-on copies of masterpieces. The film marks the directorial debut by Dan Friedkin, whose Imperative Entertainment is producing with Ridley Scott. Production is underway…

Abi Morgan, the playwright and screenwriter whose big-screen credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and most recently Suffragette, has been set to adapt Tangerine, the upcoming Christine Mangan psychological thriller novel that Imperative Entertainment scored rights to in November 2016. Mangan’s debut novel, from…