Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and Imagine Impact Head Tyler Mitchell have tapped Sarah Russell to head marketing and communications at their content accelerator, Imagine Impact. Russell will lead all brand, marketing, and communications strategy. As a marketing executive, Russell has…

Imagine Entertainment has set its roster of participants of Impact 2, the inventive program where the company empowers outside voices, “creators,” paying the newcomers accepted to the program to develop TV series and movies under the watchful eye of “shapers,” a group of established industry writers and showrunners…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has won a four-way bidding battle for Tunga, an original animated family adventure musical from Godwin Jabangwe, for a mid-six figure guarantee. At an unprecedented moment of inclusion that has gripped the Hollywood creative community after the shameful #MeToo scandals, Tunga is an important…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Impact is launching its second mentoring program. The program launched last year, to find new writer voices and give them a seat at the table, pairing them with a veteran mentor and giving them a paid eight-week creative boot camp to develop saleable screenplays, teleplays and presentations that…

EXCLUSIVE: Five months after announcing plans to provide an unprecedented Hollywood gateway for new voices and talent in movies and television, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment offshoot Imagine Impact will hold its first "Pitch Day" on November 13. The daylong event will be held at the WeWork…

EXCLUSIVE: For its first content acceleration program, Imagine Impact has set a diverse roster of established talent to mentor the first round of aspirants. The mentors will be the Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, sitcom vet and black-ish exec producer Stacy Traub, Burn Notice exec producer Ben Watkins,  T…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have tapped Tyler Mitchell to head their content accelerator program, Imagine Impact. The service, which Deadline revealed during Cannes, offers outsiders the chance to enter a program where they will be paid to write scripts, or TV show treatments…

EXCLUSIVE: On a day when director Ron Howard introduces Solo: A Star Wars Story to Cannes, Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Howard are launching another major initiative, one designed to transform good ideas into successes in narrative and documentary film, TV, VR and other platforms. Imagine Impact is a fully…

Tyler Mitchell has joined Imagine Entertainment as SVP Motion Pictures. Imagine president Erica Huggins said that Mitchell “brings an extensive experience in successful filmmaking and producing to our team." Mitchell has been in the development and producing trenches for a long time, most recently at Bob Cooper's…