Michael Rosenberg

Michael Rosenberg is the Co-Chair of Imagine Entertainment, founded by producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard. Imagine's films have grossed over $13.6 billion in worldwide theatrical, DVD, and video game grosses and has been honored with more that 60 prestigious awards including 10 Academy Awards and 36 Emmy® awards. Rosenberg joined Imagine Entertainment in 1988 as Vice President of Marketing and Distribution and guided the release of many critically acclaimed films like Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, Ransom and The Nutty Professor. In 1998, Rosenberg was promoted to President of Imagine Entertainment. He continued to oversee the marketing, publicity and distribution of the company's films including Best Picture Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind, as well as 8 Mile, Friday Night Lights, Inside Man, The Da Vinci Code, American Gangster, Frost / Nixon, J. Edgar and Rush and television programs including Fox's hit Golden Globe and Emmy award winning Best Drama Series 24, Fox's Emmy award winning Best Comedy Arrested Development, WB's Felicity, ABC's SportsNight, as well as HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, which won the Emmy® for Outstanding Mini-Series. In 2012, Rosenberg co-produced the 84th Annual Academy Awards show for ABC, and produced Katy Perry: Part of Me. Rosenberg has been actively involved with multiple philanthropic organizations including The Fulfillment Fund, UCLA Medical School, USC Film School, The American Film Institute, The Help Group, Best Buddies, and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Research. Prior to joining Imagine, Michael was President of the Saul Zaentz Production Company and Fantasy Films in Berkeley, California. During his ten years at the company he was involved in- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.