Imagine Entertainment, Warner Music Group Join Forces to Produce and Finance Music-Centered Projects

When British comics Simon Pegg and Nick Frost join forces, you know it’s going to be good. The duo is teaming up for supernatural- comedy series “Truth Seekers,” and the new trailer is out now.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify and Universal Music Group, one of the industry’s three biggest music companies, announced a multiyear global music licensing pact.Under the deal, UMG will “deepen its leading role as an early adopter of future products” on Spotify’s platform and “provide valuable feedback to Spotify’s development team,” the companies said.

coronavirus lockdown is especially tedious for children. So the young architect decided to read them stories.

Joanna Cole was a children’s author best known for her “The Magic School Bus” series.Cole published the first book in her Magic School Bus series, “At the Waterworks,” in 1986. Her words, along with illustrator Bruce Degen’s pictures, brought science to children in a fun and appealing way.

Joanna Cole, the best-selling author of The Magic School Busseries and more than 250 children's books, has died. She was 75.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJoanna Cole, whose Magic School Bus book series was beloved by millions of young readers and later turned into an animated television show, has died at age 75.Her publisher, Scholastic, said Cole, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.“Joanna Cole had the perfect touch for blending science and story,” said Scholastic Chairman and CEO Dick Robinson in a statement issued Wednesday.

Rest in Peace to Joanna Cole.

Jana Kramer revealed that she and her husband, Mike Caussin, tried out for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 11 while stuck at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“I wasn’t sure if I could say it, but we might have auditioned for a certain Housewives thing,” the country singer, 36, said on the Tuesday, July 14, episode of the couple’s “Whine Down” podcast.

Emmy-winning Jean Smart, fresh off of HBO's Watchmen, is set to star in Miss Macy, a feature from director Tate Taylor and Amblin Partners. The movie is based on the true story of Trisha Mitchell Coburn, a small town girl from Alabama who attended the Miss Macy charm school before being launched as a successful model.

DEALSSony/ATV has signed the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Linus Wiklund to a global publishing deal. He is known for his work with Avicii, Zedd, David Guetta, Rita Ora and more.

Chrissy Teigen posed topless in a new photo that she shared on her Instagram account where she has 30.5 million followers. Chrissy is currently vacationing in Mexico with her husband John Legend and the couple’s children Luna and Miles Stephens.

As music biopics on superstars like Elton John, Elvis and Aretha Franklin continue to dominate the big screen, Imagine Entertainment has inked amulti-year strategic partnership with Warner Music Group. Under the pact, the banner from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will co-produce and co-finance a slate of projects that will span film, television, documentary and short-form content.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Warner Music Group that will see the two industry leaders collaborate closely on music-focused projects across film, TV, documentaries and more.The partnership gives Imagine access to the music libraries of WMG's family of labels, as well as publisher Warner Chappell.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorImagine Entertainment and Warner Music Group have cut a deal to co-produce and co-finance a slate of music-themed projects for a range of film, TV and digital outlets.The deal is an outgrowth of the pair’s partnership on the upcoming Nat Geo limited series “Genius: Aretha,” revolving around the life of legendary musician Aretha Franklin, whose prime catalog of recordings is largely owned by Warner Music Group.The deal envisions projects for feature films,

 Mike Love is sending out “Good Vibrations” this Fourth of July weekend. The “Beach Boys” singer-songwriter and co-founder will be reporting for duty this July 4 to give a “high five” to first responders, hospital personnel and servicemen and women -- past and present -- with a special United Service Organizations (USO) performance of his newest single “This Too Shall Pass” featuring “Full House” star John Stamos.

Matt Signore will be leaving the company at the end of the year, according to an internal memo sent by WMN chairman/CEO John Esposito today (June 30) that was obtained by Billboard.Signore has spent 15 years at the Warner Music Group in different capacities, and had been COO at Warner Nashville since January 2017. He first joined the major from Island Def Jam in 2005, as chief financial officer of Warner’s artist and label services division WEA.