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.Deal comes as Howard and Grazer locked Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton to head an international ensemble cast for the MGM Thai cave rescue drama Thirteen Lives.Over the 36+ years since they formed Imagine, Grazer and Howard have found backing for their movies in a gamut of ways, from a long term Universal deal to the time they took the company public for a short while.
The exclusive deal with the streamer Apple is a new wrinkle. Imagine’s TV deal is at CBS.On the feature side, Imagine is currently producing Lin Manuel Miranda’s
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