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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)…

Warner Bros. has reupped its first-look film deal with producer Dan Lin. While the previous deal was under Lin Pictures, the new pact is now with the producer’s Rideback which will be known as a next-generation production company focused on filmmaker collaboration. The deal keeps Rideback in the Warner Bros. fold as a…

"As we radically reimagine Hollywood, it is critically important that young people are included in our vision,” Ava DuVernay said today at the unveiling of the Evolve Entertainment Fund in Los Angeles. "Real change happens when we take tangible action, and that means giving young women and people of color…

NBC is developing a family drama from former Sleepy Hollow writer- executive producer Albert Kim, Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Kim, the untitled drama is about a family-owned Korean electronics corporation that is rocked when the CEO dies on the eve of launching their American subsidiary and…

Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures, one of the producers behind box office blockbuster It, has hired former TriStar TV executive Lindsey Liberatore as SVP of television, overseeing all development and television operations for the company. Liberatore most recently served as VP of Sony Picture TV’s TriStar label, which she joined…