Charles Yu’s latest novel “Interior Chinatown” is getting the TV treatment. Hulu is developing a series based on the novel, with Yu in place to adapt his own work, Variety has learned exclusively. Sources describe the deal for the book, brokered by UTA, as highly competitive, with Participant Media and Dan Lin’s Rideback on board…
CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time, has set…
NBC has handed a script commitment plus penalty to Lewisburg, a drama inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce). The project hails from Akinnagbe, American Gothic creator/executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff, Dan Lin’s Rideback, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat, and CBS TV Studios. Lewisburg stems from CBS TV Studios, Rideback and Thinking…
Supernatural and Wildfire alumna Genevieve Padalecki is returning to acting with a heavily recurring role opposite her husband, Jared Padelecki, on his new CW series, Walker, a reimagening of CBS’ long-running 1990s action/crime series Walker, Texas Ranger. Like the original series, created by Albert S. Ruddy & Leslie Greif, the reboot explores morality, family and…
CBS Television Studios and production companies Rideback and Thinking Hat are again partnering on the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writer’s room. Three new creators have been selected for the second year of the room. They are writer Jeff Buhler, multi-hyphenate Gbenga Akinnagbe, and writer Katrina O’Gilvie. Working alongside them will be three experienced showrunner/executive producers: Anna…
Orlando von Einsiedel, whose short doc The White Helmets picked up the 2017 Academy Award, is teaming with National Geographic to launch a series of short films celebrating Nobel Peace Prize Laureates from around the world. The five docs will launch on Nat Geo’s YouTube channel on May 20. Three are making world premieres, while…
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 Filmed Entertainment Group, and Jill Wilfert, Head of Entertainment of…
Comedian Jo Koy is about to bring his brand of funny to the big screen. Deadline has confirmed that Amblin Partners and Dan Lin’s Rideback are set to collaborate on Easter Sunday, a comedy inspired by the Filipino stand-up’s life experiences. The film, which will be very much a Filipino narrative written by Ken Cheng,…
When Dan Lin started as a creative executive at Warner Bros. in the late ’90s, diversity was not a priority at most studios. Back then, Lin was one of three minorities in the film production group at the junior executive level, developing movies that WB top brass would consider for green-lighting. The young executive, who…
Rideback Ranch is an attempt by one of the entertainment industry’s leading producers to find a new way to develop ideas for movies and TV shows. A gnarled buffalo hide hangs inside “the barn,” a cavernous room furnished with sofas and long tables. A secret passageway leads to an old-fashioned saloon where whiskey bottles line…
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