{"id":4403,"date":"2021-07-20T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2021-09-03T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:26:03","slug":"deadline-imagine-07-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/deadline-imagine-07-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Entertainment Being Circled By Potential Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine Entertainment Being Circled By Potential Buyers <\/h1>\n

Investors and potential buyers are taking interest in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer\u2019s Imagine Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The interested parties include an unnamed Middle East sovereign wealth fund, as well as international banks and a domestic private equity firm. The valuation of the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind production company is north of $800M.<\/p>\n

Imagine\u2019s umbrella consists of NY-based indie production shingle Jax Media (Emily in Paris, Russian Doll, Younger, Broad City), a majority stake in Alex Gibney\u2019s Jigsaw Productions, a robust documentaries division including titles such as NatGeo\u2019s Rebuilding Paradise, directed by Ron Howard, Sony Pictures Classics\u2019 Julia and Apple\u2019s Who Are You, Charlie Brown? <\/p>\n

Imagine\u2019s library includes Howard\u2019s canon with such titles as Backdraft, Apollo 13 but also TV series such as 24, Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights and Empire. Howard is also set to direct his first animated feature movie for Paramount, The Shrinking of Treehorn. There\u2019s also a series based on Howard\u2019s Willow in the works at Disney+. Upcoming is the Netflix Andrew Garfield title tick, tick \u2026 Boom! from Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also Imagine Impact, which is the production company\u2019s incubator lab for creatives, which is a means of accelerating the script development process by removing bias in the submission process.<\/p>\n

View this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine Entertainment Being Circled By Potential Buyers Investors and potential buyers are taking interest in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer\u2019s Imagine Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed. The interested parties include an unnamed Middle East sovereign wealth fund, as well as international banks and a domestic private equity firm. The valuation of the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind
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