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EXCLUSIVE: Participant has boarded Abacus, the drama that Justin Lin will direct based on a script by Kenneth Lin (Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards) and James Schamus (Indignation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Participant joins as financier, and producer alongside Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment. Lin is…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant and Bron Creative have come on board as co-financiers with Warner Bros Pictures and Macro on the recently completed and untitled drama that tells the powerful story of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and William O'Neal, the undercover FBI informant who helped bring him down…

Participant said Thursday that is has extended David Linde's contract as chief executive officer, inking a multi-year deal. Linde joined the company in 2015 and has overseen a film slate that has won 10 Oscars including Best Pictures Green Book and Spotlight while realigning its core content around social impact…

EXCLUSIVE: After finishing a year in which it backed awards bait films Roma, Green Book, RBG and America To Me, and starting 2019 with American Factory and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind premiering here at Sundance, Participant Media has elevated three of its key executives. Christina Kounelias has been elevated to…

Jeff Skoll-owned Participant Media has named Jonathan King as President of Narrative Film & Television, and Diane Weyermann as President of Documentary Film & Television. Both have been with Participant for over a decade and will take on newly established roles in key divisions of the company’s expanded content…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its new Board of Governors today, and 10 of them are first-timers including Oscar winner and The View mainstay Whoopi Goldberg in the Actors branch and Participant Media CEO David Linde in the Executives branch. Here is the list of newcomers and incumbents…

UPDATE, 8:45 AM: In a keynote speech at Mipcom this evening, Participant Media CEO David Linde said that the company is creating a scripted series with the team from Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight. Without divulging many details, he said the untitled series will look at journalists breaking important stories…

Digging deeper into the do-good business, Jeff Skoll's Participant Media, a socially conscious entertainment company, is buying Rainn Wilson's SoulPancake, a similarly oriented digital enterprise known for uplifting web fare like the online series The Science Of Happiness, the companies said Thursday. "They're…

Participant Media has named the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ chief marketing officer Christina Kounelias as it new EVP Worldwide Marketing and Communications. It’s a newly created position and the latest move there since the arrival of new CEO David Linde. She will report to him and begins the new gig…

Participant Media has set as its new CEO David Linde, the former Universal Pictures co-chairman who’ll take the job November 1. It puts Linde back in the big game after Participant chairman Jeff Skoll parted ways with Jim Berk and started the search for a CEO who could amplify the company’s Hollywood presence. Linde…

Ted Hope partnered with James Schamus and David Linde in Good Machine, the prolific director-centric indie company behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Y Tu Mama Tambien, In The Bedroom, Brokeback Mountain, Happiness, The Ice Storm and The Brothers McMullen. In this excerpt from his new book Hope For Film (Soft…

EXCLUSIVE: David Linde‘s Lava Bear has set David Bruckner (The Signal, V/H/S) to direct Intrusion, a thriller script written by L.D. Goffigan. Along with Doug Davison, Tariq Jalil and Lucas Carter, Lava Bear will produce and production has been set to start later this…