Ron Howard, Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment Sets First Look Film Deal With Apple

EXCLUSIVE: Constance Wu, star of ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat and Crazy Rich Asians, is moving into TV production and has struck a first-look deal with eOne.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO and HBO Max are eyeing more stories of larger-than-life rock stars and social issues with a first-look deal with Gunpowder & Sky.

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: Hot off the success of Netflix’s first original musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, David E. Talbert and Lyn Sisson-Talbert have signing a first-look deal for their Golden Alchemy banner, to write, direct and produce movies for Netflix. It is the first overall deal for the prolific playwright and filmmaker, who partners in Golden Alchemy with his wife, a prolific producer and author on her own.

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen have made a two-year first-look television deal at A24 for their Square Peg banner. The duo formed their company in 2019 after teaming on Hereditary, which Aster wrote and directed and Knudsen produced, and then Midsommar, on which they served the same roles. A24 released both films.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Several months ago, it was reported that b was set to star in a new Apple TV+ series, “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.” The series, much like almost every Apple TV+ project, is yet another attempt by the streamer to use an A-list star to attract viewers. But now, we know who’s starring opposite Jackson and who is behind the camera, leading us to put ‘Last Days’ near the top of our most anticipated TV list.

Anybody tuning into Netflix’s “Pacific Rim: The Black” will likely expect more of what Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham gave them in 2013’s “Pacific Rim” (and, to much lesser effect, what Steven S. DeKnight gave them in 2018’s sequel, “Pacific Rim: Uprising”): Two-person crews piloting big-ass mechs slugging it out with equally big-ass monsters.

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