Imagine Impact Opens Netflix Film Submissions, Seeks “Large-Scale Action” Ideas

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.

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Charlie Kaufman remains one of the most self-referential and surreal filmmakers working today, but when it comes to his directorial efforts, they’ve been few and far between. Five years after his Oscar-nominated stop-motion film “Anomalisa,” Kaufman returns this year with “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” which Netflix will release later this year, and Kaufman says he approached the project as his last directorial effort.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThere’s a thing you can always count on in blockbuster movie culture: If a popcorn genre hangs around long enough, after a while it’s going to merge with another popcorn genre it seemingly has nothing to do with.

Vanilla Ice will no longer be celebrating Independence Day like it’s the ’90s.

Vanilla Ice is celebrating Independence Day like it’s the 90s.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDavid Dobkin had no idea the Eurovision Song Contest even existed until the script by Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele landed on his desk.

Jessica Kiang The protagonist of Pablo Larraín’s “Tony Manero” was a man obsessed to the point of insanity with achieving celebrity as the replication of someone else. So there’s a sort of inverse symmetry at work in the Larraín-produced “Nobody Knows I’m Here,” the strange little debut from Gaspar Antillo, about a man whose celebrity was stolen from him, and given to another.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Impact Australia, the entertainment accelerator launched down under by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell’s Imagine Impact back in February, has named 10 projects that will take part in its debut talent program.The eight-week initiative, run in collaboration with Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, was originally slated to take place in Melbourne but will now pivot to a virtual form due to ongoing coronavirus disruption.A total

Just because Woody Allen continues to be blacklisted in Hollywood, it doesn’t mean the director is having issues finding international film industry folks that are fully supporting the filmmaker and his work. Not only is he not having issues, but the San Sebastian Film Festival has announced (via Variety) that Allen’s upcoming film, “Rifkin’s Festival” will be the fall fest’s opening night film in September.

Jill Goldsmith Vice Media Group Wednesday set the premiere for Vice TV’s Disruptors (working title), a new series with sports journalists Jemele Hill and Cari Champion, announced a major global news expansion and an investigative series with iHeart Media.The group is also launching ‘The 8:46 Project,’ a company-wide commitment to expand coverage and reporting on systemic racism across all of VICE’s brands including: Vice News, Vice Digital, Noisey, Munchies and Vice TV.   Continuing to retool is

coronavirus pandemic and the continued fight against systemic racism and discrimination, Newell admits it was hard in the beginning to find the energy to march on. «At first it was really hard to wake up in the morning — and I would wake up in a terrible mood.

Gerard Butler is all set to add another action thriller to his acting credits. The Hollywood star will reunite with Angel Has Fallen filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh for the upcoming film Kandahar.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the last two years, a series of scalding and essential documentaries — “Leaving Neverland,” “Surviving R. Kelly,” “Untouchable,” “On the Record,” “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” — have shined a light on the contours of sexual abuse and the supreme, if not obscene, concentration of power that too often allows it to be concealed and perpetuated.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhen movies work their magic, the screen becomes a kind of mirror, reflecting dimensions of our identities or experience back to us in profound and emotional ways. When the characters aren’t so familiar, it serves as more of a window, offering insight into the lives of those who are different from ourselves.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have made a substantial investment and take an ownership stake in Oscar-winning documentary director Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.

Netflix fans have been raving about the latest addition to the streaming giant's roster – steamy Polish film 365 DNI.The erotic film, which translates to '365 Days', has been compared to Fifty Shade of Grey and features hunky Italian actor Michele Morrone as the violent leader of a Sicilian Mafia family, who kidnaps a woman he saw five years ago on the day his father was murdered.