Yes, the film world’s one-time cush deals can be seen these days only in the rearview mirror. But great content is still the secret sauce for the studios and their bottom-line corporate owners as the industry’s convulsions create a new class of players who can keep everything from a mega-franchise like ‘Transformers’ to an idiosyncratic…
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Lionsgate has picked up the rights to Dust, a cult tabletop game and graphic novel in a package that sees Rawson Marshall Thurber attached to direct. Dan Lin, one of the producers behind the Lego movie franchise, is on board to produce. Dust is set in an alternate history steampunk-themed version of the 1940s where…
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This Sunday, March 8, an advance screening of Disney’s live action imagination of the classic Cinderella will unspool at the historic Vista Theatre in Los Feliz. This isn’t a typical L.A. screening to give industryites an opportunity to brag about seeing a film first before the rest of the world. Instead, it’s a fundraiser that…
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He worked his way up the DreamWorks ladder after starting out as Stacey Snider’s assistant in 2006 Lin Pictures has hired Jonathan Eirich as president of film production, a position that calls for him to oversee the company’s live-action feature slate, TheWrap has learned. Eirich, who most recently served as senior VP of production at…
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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed the first movie, are now producing the movie with Dan Lin and Roy Lee. They are also writing it. Everything is awesome for Rob Schrab, the TV director who has just signed on direct the sequel to The Lego Movie for Warner Bros. Dan Lin and Roy Lee…
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Dan Lin (‘The Lego Movie’) is on board to produce the adaptation of the novel from ‘Six Days of the Condor’ author James Grady. Warner Bros. has picked up Mad Dogs, an action-comedy package that adapts a novel from Six Days of the Condor author James Grady. Jay Roach is attached to direct the project…
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The Los Angeles Business Journal recently wrote a feature about Lego called “Lego Strategy Taking Shape.” You can view the article by clicking the link below or view it as a PDF here.
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Dan Lin’s acceptance speech for 2015 PGA’s Award as Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures (The LEGO Movie)
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Birdman took the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the 26th annual PGA Awards tonight in Los Angeles. The win places the Alejandro G. Iñárritu-helmed pic squarely in the frontrunner category for the Best Picture Oscar. Since 1989, those theatrical films taking the Darryl F. Zanuck award for best…
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Take that Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! Just hours after “The Lego Movie” was snubbed from the list of 2015 Oscar nominees, the Warner Bros. film walked away with the win for Best Animated Feature at the 20th annual show Thursday night. The film’s director and screenwriters, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, accepted…
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