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Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are producing a Disney film adaptation of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, through their Rideback banner, Deadline can confirm. Rideback’s Ryan Halprin will exec produce. Based on the improvisational play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Sarah…

Universal Pictures has entered into a first-look production agreement with Dan Lin and his Rideback production banner.  Lin has produced films grossing more than $5 billion worldwide, including the successful The LEGO Movie, Stephen King's It and Sherlock Holmes franchises, as well as Disney's live-action Aladdin. The…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Burn In, an AI drama based on P.W. Singer and August Cole’s novel Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, from Elementary creator Rob Doherty, Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS Studios, where Doherty is under an overall deal. Burn In is described as a gripping techno-thriller…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a script commitment plus penalty to Lewisburg, a drama inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce). The project hails from Akinnagbe, American Gothic creator/executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff, Dan Lin’s Rideback, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat, and CBS TV Studios. Lewi…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has completed a five-year exclusive deal with the LEGO Group that will lead to the development, production and theatrical distribution of films constructed from the fusion of original ideas to the colorful building blocks. The deal was spearheaded by Donna Langley, Chairman, Universal…

Somebody wants Lego under the tree for Christmas. Universal is leading the pack of several studios chasing the rights to make future Lego movies. The franchise began at Warner Bros, with the 2014 smash hit The Lego Movie, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, and a second hit was hatched with The Lego Batman Movi…

The Rideback TV Incubator, the inclusion-focused writers program launched last year by Dan Lin's Rideback and MRC, will begin taking applications next month for its sophomore session. The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create their own…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing The Eshmun Protocol, a conspiracy thriller drama from Ford v. Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller, Rina Mimoun (Mistresses), Craig Turk (FBI), Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios where Rideback has a first-look deal. Written by Keller, The Eshmun Protocol centers on a combat engineer who…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Drift, a drama from Black List writer Christopher Salmanpour (The Promise), and executive produced by Anna Fricke (Valor), Craig Turk (The Code, The Good Wife) and Dan Lin (Lethal Weapon). CBS Television Studios, where Turk and his Thinking Hat Productions are under a deal, is the…

The producer of Cirque du Soleil and Dan Lin’s Rideback have made a deal to develop feature films based on the stories and characters from the catalog of the iconic global live entertainment franchise. The movie projects will be spearheaded by Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group president and CEO Daniel Lamarre and…

A new TV incubator designed to generate straight-to-series shows is being launched by The Lego Movie franchise producer Dan Lin’s production company Rideback and MRC, the TV and film studio behind House of Cards and Baby Driver. The Rideback TV Incubator, unveiled Thursday by Rideback and MRC, has a core mission to…

Deadline has confirmed that Margot Robbie’s Luckychap and Dan Lin’s Rideback are developing Tess Sharpe’s novel Barbed Wire Heart for Warner Bros. Westworld scribe Carly Wray is adapting. The studio took film rights earlier this year. Robbie is not expected to headline. Barbed Wire Heart (Grand Central Publishing)…