EXCLUSIVE: Filmula’s Johnny Lin has tapped Andrew Farotte to write an original script for a big-budget epic about World War II in the Pacific. It’s described as a tale of survival, perseverance and human sacrifice, and a bridge of cross-culture collaboration and battle against the Japanese's invasion. The script will…

Johnny Lin’s Filmula and Allen Liu‘s E Stars are teaming to finance U.S. and international movies for distribution in China, the parties said at AFM today. Filmula will produce and co-finance with E Stars films ranging from commercial tentpoles to Oscar-driven material for E Stars to distribute. The deal also will…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmula Entertainment has acquired rights to historian James L. Swanson’s upcoming book Lion In Winter, about America's most prolific Chicago Outfit syndicate mob boss and a key henchman in the infamous "Capone massacres." The book will be adapted into a feature film by Chuck Hogan, who penned the…

Paul Laudiero and Ben Baker’s script for the holiday action pic Escape From the North Pole has landed at Filmula. Johnny Lin, producer of the upcoming sci-fi thriller Rise and psychological thriller Sacrifice, has acquired the rights to the script which was featured on the coveted Black List, the annual ranking…

American Made executive producer Johnny Lin's Filmula and 3 Arts Entertainment are teaming to develop undercover agent Edward Follis' memoir The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Narco-Terrorism for television. The story details Follis' 27 years in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and his pursuit of the world's…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmula Entertainment’s Johnny Lin and New Republic Pictures’ Brian Oliver, who recently teamed to produce and finance the sci-fi thriller Rise, have reunited to produce the psychological horror  Sacrifice. The screenplay is by Robert Tinnell and with Paul Johansson ( One Tree Hill, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1)…

EXCLUSIVE: New Republic Pictures and Filmula will co-finance an updated version of The Wild Geese, the 1978 cult favorite mission movie that starred Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris as British mercenaries sent to Africa to restore a leader to power. William Monahan is set to write the script, based on…

After the project was put into turnaround at Warner Bros, Filmula's Johnny Lin and Brian Oliver have acquired rights to the sci-fi project Rise. Lin is an executive producer on the Tom Cruise-starring crime thriller American Made, while Oliver was one of the credited producers on Black Swan. They will both fully…