Faraway Films Entertainment's Lynda Heys and Steve Turnbull are heading to LA this weekend to take meetings for their feature film 'The Road Less Traveled', which they developed last year via Imagine Entertainment's Impact program.
Ron Howard's 'Thirteen Lives', based on the Thai caves rescue, is the latest in a string of international projects headed to Australia, due to shoot in the Gold Coast from March.
'Thirteen Lives' director Ron Howard has returned to Queensland for another feature, starting production next week on survival thriller 'Eden', starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and Sydney Sweeney.
Imagine Impact, the content accelerator program created by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell, is heading to Australia.
"Australians have proven over the years to have really interesting, fresh points of view and stories to tell that connect with audiences. More than ever audiences are hungry for those unique stories and voices."
Ron Howard's 'Thirteen Lives' recounts the true story of the global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm in 2018.
The companies have formed a joint venture to develop, produce and finance six feature length animation and hybrid animation projects over the next five years.
Imagine Entertainment co-founder Ron Howard will direct 'The Shrinking of Treehorn', the first of four live-action animated co-productions between his company and Animal Logic Entertainment.