Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment Signs First-Look Deal With Apple Studios

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.

Tracy Oliver, the writer behind “Girls Trip,” “Little” and “The Sun Is Also a Star,” has signed an overall deal with Apple.Apple landed the multiyear deal with Oliver in a competitive bidding situation. The deal will span original TV series and films, all through Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions banner.

On Tuesday, Disney+ dropped the first trailer for “Big Shot”, an upcoming dramedy starring John Stamos as Marvyn Korn, a hot-headed NCAA basketball coach whose on-court meltdowns forced him into a job coaching the basketball team at an all-girls private high school.

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.

Shuli Egar got quite the response from his close pals when he made the decision to uproot his family from their cramped two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in the New York City borough of Queens for the airiness and charm of Huntsville, Ala., right in the midst of a global pandemic and citywide shutdown. As a performer and music artist, who relied on playing gigs, the pandemic spelled doom for the Israeli-born Egar.

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.

Three big-name actors will be starring in Ron Howard‘s new movie!

Apple has struck a first-look dealBrian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. The multi-year pact will see the banner produce aslate of scripted features, exclusively for the streamer.

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.

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.

Last year, around this time, people were predicting that Ron Howard’s most recent film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” would be a major Oscars player and potentially land Amy Adams her first trophy. Well, things didn’t necessarily go as planned.

Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o are to star in a limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman’s book Lady In The Lake for Apple TV+.

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.

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have made their entrance as a new duo under the moniker Silk Sonic, releasing the syrupy new single, ‘Leave The Door Open’.The new song comes after Anderson and Mars announced their union last week, as well as the forthcoming release of a collaborative album, ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’.Reminiscent of 60s and 70s easy listening love songs, the new groove from the pair dropped today (March 5), and was co-produced between Mars and D’Mile, with Brody Brown joining the