Apple Signs First Look Deal With Imagine Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Following critical acclaim that recently earned him multiple accolades including a SAG nomination, Nicholas Hoult is looking to stay in business with The Great producers for the long haul. Hoult has signed a first look television deal with MRC Television and Civic Center Media via his newly formed production company, Dead Duck Films.

Peter Berg, the filmmaker behindDeepwater Horizon, Hancock, and Friday Night Lights,and his banner Film 44 have signed a first-look deal at Netflix to produce and direct live-action films and series. The pact comes just over a year after his last feature directorial effort, the action thriller Spenser Confidential, debuted on the streamer and become one of the company’s biggest hits of last year.

Following the success of the Mark Wahlberg-starrer, Spenser Confidential, director Peter Berg is making a home at Netflix. The filmmaker, through his Film 44 entertainment banner, has entered into a first-look deal to produce and direct live-action films and series for the streaming giant.

Angelique Jackson Peter Berg’s Film 44 has set a new first-look deal with Netflix, under which Berg will produce and direct live-action films and series for the streamer.The new deal follows the success of last year’s “Spenser Confidential,” which Berg produced and directed at Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off a starring role in Coming to 2 America, Jermaine Fowler is in talks to lead The U.S.P.S., a spy action-comedy which is being developed by Amazon Studios, Imagine Entertainment, and Chronology. Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Karen Lunder are producing the film with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer and Carmen Lewis of Chronology.

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner reunite in this first look pic from the final season of The Kominsky Method.

EXCLUSIVE: Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence and his about: blank production company have signed a first look feature pic deal with New Republic Pictures.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatalie Portman and Sophie Mas’ MountainA production company has set a first-look TV deal at Apple.News of the deal comes a week after it was reported that Portman had signed on to star in the Apple series “Lady in the Lake” with Lupita Nyong’o. Portman is also an executive producer on the series, as is Mas via MountainA.

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winner Natalie Portman and producing partner Sophie Mas have inked a first look deal with Apple. Under the multi-year agreement, Apple TV+ will have a first look on television projects to be developed and produced by Portman and Mas through their newly formed production company MountainA. This marks the first producing deal for the pair.

Tom Hiddleston has joined Claire Danes in the upcoming Apple drama The Essex Serpent, and the company released a first look photo of him in character.

Tom Hiddleston has been tapped as the male lead opposite Claire Danes in the Apple TV+ drama series The Essex Serpent, adapted from Sarah Perry’s bestselling novel of the same name.

Apple Studios has made a multi-year first look film deal with Imagine Entertainment founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to produce a slate of scripted movies exclusively for Apple Original Films.

Jordan Moreau Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has signed a multi-year, first-look deal to create scripted features exclusively for Apple.Imagine Entertainment’s previous films include 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind,” which won best picture at the Oscars; “Hillbilly Elegy,” which earned Glenn Close a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress; “Rush”; “J.

Also Read: Natalie Portman, Lupita Nyong'o to Star in Apple's 'Lady in the Lake' Limited Series From Alma Har'elApple and Imagine have previously partnered on the documentary “Dads” from director Bryce Dallas Howard and “Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10,” directed by Morgan Neville.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterGravitas Ventures, an independent film distributor, has acquired worldwide rights to Charlie Minn’s next three documentaries.Those projects — “7 Murders a Day,” “Who Shot Colosio?” and “Miracle on 4th Street” — complement Minn’s background in investigative journalism. Minn directed and produced the non-fiction films, which were shot both prior to and during the coronavirus pandemic.

Viacom International Studios has inked a first-look deal with South Korean production studio Something Special.

Elle Fanning, star and executive producer of Civic Center Media/MRC Television’s Hulu series The Great, is expanding her relationship with the indie studio partnership. She and her sister Dakota Fanning have teamed to launch Lewellen Pictures production company and have entered a first-look television deal with the studio, a joint venture between UTA and MRC. The Fanning sisters plan to develop feature film and television projects, as well as other forms of media, including podcasts.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDakota and Elle Fanning have formed their own production company, Lewellen Pictures.