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 Blackwater…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment has promoted Jillian Apfelbaum to be Head of Film. She had been VP Content. She continues report to partners Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas. Apfelbaum will be responsible for acquiring projects for development, with COO John Atwood. She is a producer for film, television and live…

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi fantasy novel The Fifth Season is getting the drama series treatment at TNT. The project is in early development at the cable network with Leigh Dana Jackson (24: Legacy, Sleepy Hollow) set to pen the adaptation and Imperative Entertainment’s (All the Money in the World) Dan…

Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Tim Kring’s Imperative Entertainment has acquired rights to Susan Quinn's book, Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped A First Lady, to develop as a television series. Shana Feste (Country Strong) will write and direct the adaptation of the book, which recounts the warm…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott's next directing project, All The Money In The World, is headed to the international marketplace in what instantly becomes a hot ticket here at the Cannes Film Festival. STXinternational has secured the highly sought offshore rights to the Imperative Entertainment- and Scott Free-produced true…