EXCLUSIVE: Beth Bednarski has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Imagine Entertainment, the award-winning world leisure firm of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. The information comes following the amicable departure of Imagine Entertainment’s Presidents Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns (from Jax Media), which we had been first to report on.

Bednarski has been at Imagine for greater than six years, most just lately serving as Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations. Prior to becoming a member of the corporate, she served as Vice President of Finance at Shine America, having launched her profession at Deloitte.

In her new position, Bednarski will oversee finance and accounting together with human assets, operations and IT, partnering with senior management on enterprise improvement and strategic initiatives.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with Beth for over a decade and known her to be exceptionally strategic and operational,” mentioned Imagine Entertainment COO, Steve Shikiya. “She has become an integral part of the senior leadership team at Imagine, particularly as the company has aggressively expanded into new content businesses over the past few years.”

Founded in 1986 and run by government chairmen Grazer and Howard, Imagine Entertainment has underneath its umbrella Imagine Features, Imagine Television Studios, Imagine Documentaries, Imagine Kids+Family, Imagine Brands and Imagine Audio, in addition to the award-winning Jax Media and Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. Imagine’s productions have been honored over time with 47 Academy Award nominations and 228 on the Emmys, amongst quite a few different accolades. Past productions embrace the Best Picture Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind, in addition to the Grammys’ Best Film winner The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years.

Recent function productions embrace the critically-acclaimed Thirteen Lives directed by Howard for Prime Video, the hit Netflix musical tick, tick…Boom! directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sacha Jenkins’ Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, Rory Kennedy’s Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari and such critically acclaimed documentaries because the Emmy-winning Lucy & Desi directed by Amy Poehler and We Feed People. 

Television productions embrace the upcoming Genius: MLK/X (Disney+), Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu), Swagger (Apple), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX); and Emily in Paris (Netflix) from Jax Media. Additional documentary productions embrace the Crime Scene anthology collection — The Vanishing on the Cecil Hotel, The Times Square Killer and The Texas Killing Fields — all of which reached the highest #5 globally on Netflix, in addition to Julia, Paper & Glue, Rebuilding Paradise and Jigsaw’s Tiger (HBO), to call a number of. 

Other tasks arising for Imagine on the movie facet embrace The Beanie Bubble, from Kristen Gore and Damian Kulash; the Reginald Hudlin-directed Candy Cane Lane starring Eddie Murphy; and the animated function, The Family Treehorn.