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Johnny Lin has positioned himself as a leading producer, financier, distributor, and aggregator of films in Asia and North America. As principal of Filmula Entertainment and president of Filmula International, Lin not only creates and distributes original content; he brings films from one territory to the other and shepherds those properties to even greater success.
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Recently, Lin acquired the rights to a number of productions, including David Karlak’s sci-fi thriller Rise, Jennifer Lawrence’s biographical drama Zelda, Todd Field’s Mexican Revolution thriller The Creed of Violence, and an updated version of the 1978 cult favorite The Wild Geese. Lin is also set to produce and the upcoming action feature Escape From the North Pole, the biopic A Confederacy of Thelma, WW 2 untitled epic penned by Andrew Farrote, same writer as Thelma. .
On television, Lin is executive producer of the AMC drama series, Champagne Supernovas, which follows the rise of style icons Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen through the 1990s; With Showrunners Rolin Jones (Perry Mason at HBO) and Shiela Callahan (Shameless at Showtime).
Over his career, Lin has acquired international distribution rights to over 2,000 films, such as Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games, Phyllida Lloyd’s Iron Lady, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter, Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Neil Burger’s Limitless, Robert Schwentke’s Red, Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass, Paul Haggis’ Next Three Days, Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables and Rambo 4, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, Lasse Hallström’s Dear John, and Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech – to name a few.
Exclusive Pan-Asian distribution deals included The Lord of the Rings, Rush Hour, The Wedding Singer, Wag the Dog, Runaway Bride, and Spawn. In Asia, Lin also released Rajkumar Hirani’s India blockbuster 3 Idiots; exclusively held distribution rights to Miramax movies and television shows in Taiwan.
Lin’s foray into filmmaking came in 2011 with the financing of Spencer Susser’s Hesher. Following that success, he produced Sam Levinson’s Another Happy Day – which won the Sundance Film Festival’s annual Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Richard Linklater’s comedy Bernie and the most recent action spy thriller American Made starring Tom Cruise.
Lin began his career working for his father, Jimmy, who, in addition to producing Jet Li’s breakthrough film The Legend, led a prolific distribution team that handled over 800 films which included all New line Cinema films from 96-2003 in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
Guy LaLiberte is the billionaire founder of Cirque De Soleil.
Recently, Lin acquired the rights to a number of productions, including David Karlak’s sci-fi thriller Rise, Jennifer Lawrence’s biographical drama Zelda, Todd Field’s Mexican Revolution thriller The Creed of Violence, and an updated version of the 1978 cult favorite The Wild Geese. Lin is also set to produce and the upcoming action feature Escape From the North Pole, the biopic A Confederacy of Thelma, WW 2 untitled epic penned by Andrew Farrote, same writer as Thelma. .
On television, Lin is executive producer of the AMC drama series, Champagne Supernovas, which follows the rise of style icons Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen through the 1990s; With Showrunners Rolin Jones (Perry Mason at HBO) and Shiela Callahan (Shameless at Showtime).
Over his career, Lin has acquired international distribution rights to over 2,000 films, such as Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games, Phyllida Lloyd’s Iron Lady, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter, Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Neil Burger’s Limitless, Robert Schwentke’s Red, Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass, Paul Haggis’ Next Three Days, Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables and Rambo 4, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, Lasse Hallström’s Dear John, and Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech – to name a few.
Exclusive Pan-Asian distribution deals included The Lord of the Rings, Rush Hour, The Wedding Singer, Wag the Dog, Runaway Bride, and Spawn. In Asia, Lin also released Rajkumar Hirani’s India blockbuster 3 Idiots; exclusively held distribution rights to Miramax movies and television shows in Taiwan.
Lin’s foray into filmmaking came in 2011 with the financing of Spencer Susser’s Hesher. Following that success, he produced Sam Levinson’s Another Happy Day – which won the Sundance Film Festival’s annual Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Richard Linklater’s comedy Bernie and the most recent action spy thriller American Made starring Tom Cruise.
Lin began his career working for his father, Jimmy, who, in addition to producing Jet Li’s breakthrough film The Legend, led a prolific distribution team that handled over 800 films which included all New line Cinema films from 96-2003 in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
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