During 2018, we have published a large number of news related to the streaming video service in which It seems, since there is no official confirmation, that Apple is focusing its efforts, a streaming video service that could see the light of day during the first quarter of 2019 at the earliest, a date very close and likely to be delayed.
Meanwhile, the guys from Cupertino continue to close agreements with different production companies to create exclusive content. The latest agreement Apple has reached is with Imagine Documentaries, signed by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, to create both movies and documentaries.
The agreement that Apple has reached to produce films and we document confirms Apple's interest in this type of content, since it is the second it has reached, after the signing of Justin Wilkes, from RadicalMedial, also create this type of content.
The purchase of the rights to The Elephant Queen, which will be screened later this month at the Sundance Film Festival, confirms, yet again, that documentaries will be a very important part of the content that Apple wants to offer streaming video through its service.
Imagine Documentaries began a few years ago to focus on this type of content with projects such as The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Week, Jay-Z: Made in America, Kate Perry: Part of Me y Inside Deep Throat. He is currently working on the documentary series She the People, with actress Sarah Jones traveling the world to report on the treatment of women around the world.
Actor Bryce Dallas is working on the movie Dads, a movie that wants to give a humorous look at fatherhood in the modern age. Imagine, you recently hired Sara Bernstein, to bolster your documentary production infrastructure, a former HBO executive.
