from deadline hollywood

by Mike Fleming

Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have started the Imagine/Reliance Writers Lab, an enterprising venture that pools a group of 10 screenwriters. Those writers are being paid a set annual salary to generate scripts in a variety of genres, and they are financially incentivized to participate in a collaborative support system.

Universal Pictures and Reliance gets first crack at the screenplays that come out of the arrangement…more