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 opportunities…

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 h…

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 i…

Guy Ritchie is in talks with Disney to direct Aladdin, the latest in the studio’s efforts to re-imagine classic properties for contemporary audiences. Big Fish scribe John August has written the script, and The Lego Movie‘s Dan Lin is producing. Those franchise launches have included Maleficent, Cinderella and most…

EXCLUSIVE: Over two years after they started to take legal bites out of each other over the big lizard, Legendary Pictures and producers Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Doug Davison have come to a settlement. No details of the agreement were made public, but paperwork was filed today to dismiss the complaints filed by both sides…

EXCLUSIVE: How hard has Hollywood fallen for the idea of a Robin Hood film? Warner Bros quietly has put one into development, scripted by Gangster Squad and Aquaman scribe Will Beall, and produced by The Lego Movie‘s Dan Lin, and John Zaozirny. They’re keeping the take on this one secret (it’s not Lego, which seems to…

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