Platform Partnerships Leverage Pragmatic Pictures' international reach and a client roster that includes Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producers to co-create development pipelines with streaming platforms and networks seeking curated books and life rights for adaptation across film, television, and podcast formats.

Executive Access With founder Mac Hawkins’ deep experience across Paramount Pictures in New York, WME, HarperCollins/ReganBooks, and Oxford University Press, Pragmatic offers premium development consulting and deal-sourcing services, providing studios and agencies fast access to vetted talent, rights, and development pipelines.

Diverse Rights Pragmatic scouts and develops across books, articles, life rights, podcasts, and other literary material, enabling packaged opportunities for cross-format adaptations and bundled rights acquisitions that fit different platform strategies.

Boutique Advantage As a lean firm with a small team, Pragmatic can move quickly, tailor engagements, and serve as an extension of a production or development team, delivering proactive, producer-led packaging and development support.

Data-Driven Value Leveraging analytics and cloud-based tools, Pragmatic can provide data-informed recommendations, audience insights, and ROI-focused pitches to buyers, helping de-risk proposals for literary-to-screen projects and demonstrate value to streaming services, networks, and studios.