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Parkes/MacDonald Land Buchsbaum & Riley Secret Service Comedy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 3:53pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Image Nation, Laurie MacDonald, Walter Parkes
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald have acquired an untitled action-comedy set in the world of the Secret Service. Aaron Buchsbaum & Teddy Riley are writing the script. Parkes/MacDonald utilized funds from its development fund with Image Nation. The project came out of a general meeting the writers took with Parkes and MacDonald after exec Marc Resteghini brought them in. The writers pitched the project and it was bought preemptively. The Image Nation deal allows the producers to give development projects the time they need to percolate. Parkes and MacDonald will produce, and Resteghini will be exec producer. READ MORE »

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National Geographic Joins Forces With Hyde Park/Image Nation

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 22, 2011 @ 11:20am PSTTags: Image Nation, National Geographic Films
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA (December 22, 2011)–National Geographic and Image Nation are consolidating their partnership with Hyde Park/Image Nation to finance and produce a wide array of National Geographic themed entertainment projects designed for global distribution. Hyde Park will

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Image Nation Separates Hollywood Division

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 3:35am PDTTags: Hyde Park Entertainment, Image Nation, Participant Media, Warner Bros

Image Nation has separated its U.S. business from its local filmmaking activity. Michael Garin, who was appointed CEO in February, will continue to be overall head of Image Nation, while running overseas business Image Nation International. Its American partners include Participant Media, Hyde Park Entertainment, Parkes/Macdonald and Warner Bros. Former UAE ambassador Mohammed Al Otaiba has been appointed head of newly formed Image Nation Abu Dhabi, which has produced two local movies so far: Sea Shadow and Djinn, directed by Tobe Hooper. Garin told me recently that he has spent time restructuring deals originally signed by his predecessor Ed Borgerding, trying to give Image Nation more of a say over what gets greenlighted. He has restructured Image Nation’s deal with National Geographic Films in particular. “Before I arrived, the strategy was much more passive,” he told me. “The partnerships have changed significantly. Before I arrived Participant and National Geographic were structured in a way that gave us little or no control over projects. Those are not structures I would have entered into on that basis.” Read More »

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