Imagine has hired Mark Velez, formerly of The Shuman Co. & Fox, as a comedy exec in their TV department.  Congrats!

Hearing that CBS SVP Bela Bejaria will be joining Universal Media Studios (UMS).

Congrats to Erik Platt, who is in as the new DOD at Andrew Lauren Productions.

Red Hour Films exec Kit Giordano is joining Illumination Entertainment (HOP) as an exec… starts June 27th there… congrats!

Lit Manager Oly Obst exiting Underground to join 3Arts.

Dave Mace at Logo moving to VH1 as Senior VP of Programming… congrats!

Hearing that Brad Luff will be exiting Dimension…

JUST IN… LATE BREAKING EXCLUSIVE NEWS… Mike Goldberg & Josh Adler have exited ROAR to join New Wave Entertainment as Lit Managers. www.nwe.com

Kyle Franke, formerly of Davis Entertainment, has joined XYZ Films as Head of Development.  Congrats!

Congrats to Katie Murphy, who started today as a CE at Smokehouse.  She was previously Grant Heslov’s assistant.

Congrats to Natasha Stephan, who has been hired as the new CE at Sony Pictures Animation.  She previously was a Feature Coordinator over at Montana Artists Agency prior to starting at SPA this week.  Amanda Pecora is now the new Feature Coordinator at Montana Artists.

Congrats to Kristy Maurer at Endgame Entertainment, who has been promoted to Creative Exec… She was previusly an assistant, and then a Story Editor at the company.