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EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has tapped Netflix executive Kristen Zolner as Head of Imagine Television. This marks the first major executive hire since Tony Hernandez & Lilly Burns, co-founders of Imagine-owned Jax Media, were named Presidents of Imagine Entertainment earlier this month, overseeing film and television for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s indie company, which has been the center of acquisition speculation.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterVeteran entertainment executive Samie Kim Falvey has been named president of Picturestart.Falvey joins the upstart production company where she will oversee all scripted and unscripted efforts in content across all film, television, audio and print media. She will report directly to Erik Feig, the former chairman of the Lionsgate motion picture group and founder and CEO of Picturestart.Falvey joins the shop from Imagine Entertainment, where she has served as chairman of television since 2017.“Samie is an incredible storyteller and human being who excels at finding equally incredible story tellers and human beings and bringing out the best of them.

Will Thorne Staff WriterA few goodfellas are in the market to get whacked or get made at Showtime.The network is developing an hour-long mob drama from the eye-catching trio of Brian Grazer, Terence Winter and Nicholas Pileggi, Variety has confirmed. Winter will write the as-yet-untitled project, which sources say is in early stages, and is based on Pileggi’s chronology of organized crime in America, as seen through the eyes of the mafia’s First Family.The series is being produced by Grazer’s Imagine Studios for Showtime, with Grazer and Samie Kim Falvey executive producing for Imagine.