Sony Pictures has emerged from a three-studio bidding battle with screen rights to remake the Korean crime film New World. The deal was mid six-figures and the film will be produced by Roy Lee and Dan Lin, with Jon Silk and John Powers Middleton exec producing. The script will be written by…

Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha broke out onto the world stage with his gritty Elite Squad crime movies, then nabbed a coveted gig directing MGM’s remake of RoboCop. Now the director is setting the stage for his next studio project: a crime movie at Warner Bros. Padilha is in negotiations to…

Aca-mazing. Pitch Perfect’s Brittany Snow has landed the lead role in the Fox comedy pilot To My Future Assistant, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Based on the blog and upcoming book To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock, the comedy revolves around…

Looks like Warner Bros now has a handle on Spy Hunter, the action film based on the best selling vidgame The studio, which has attached Ruben Fleischer to direct the film, just closed a deal with Carter Blanchard to write the script. Dan Lin and Roy Lee are producing. Fleischer most recently helmed…

Screenwriter Kurt Johnstad has covered both ancient warfare co-writing 300 and its sequel 300: Rise Of An Empire, and contemporary conflict with Act Of Valor. Now, he’s tackling a collision of completely different warriors in…

Fox has picked up three more drama pilots, joining Greg Kinnear starrer Rake. They are the Ruben Fleischer-produced drama The List, Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci’s Sleepy Hollow and Karyn Usher’s Delirium…

Fox is betting big on Ted’s Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, offering the trio a six-episode straight to series order for their live-action comedy…

Dan Lin and his Lin Pictures have reupped at Warner Bros. with a two-year first-look feature deal, continuing a relationship dating to 2008.Deal comes with the studio opening “Gangster Squad,” produced by Lin, Kevin McCormick and Michael Tadross, on…

Dan Lin (Producer) is the CEO of Lin Pictures, a production company based at Warner Bros. Its primary focus is producing event films and television series for a global audience. Since his company’s formation in 2008, Lin has produced films that have grossed over $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales. His latest movie “Gangster Squad” opens…

Lin Pictures’s newest film, Gangster Squad, has been featured in a several international publications from the Chinese World Journal to Taiwanese coverage of our press junket in Taiwan.

Peter O’Brien has just been hired by Warner Bros to adapt Trust Your Eyes, the Linwood Barclay novel that Todd Phillips is attached to direct. Phillips and his Green Hat Films banner are producing with Dan Lin.