Producer Dan Lin has been named the successor to outgoing Netflix Films Chairman Scott Stuber, effective April 1. In his new role, Lin will report to Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria. Stuber’s departure was announced in late January.
Through his shingle Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures), Lin has already been working with the streamer as an executive producer on the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which premiered last week. Since launching in 2008, the banner’s film productions have raked in more than $6 billion in worldwide box office. Lin’s co-CEOs Jonathan Eirich and Michael LoFaso have been promoted to oversee Rideback, and and Lin will continue to serve on the board of the nonprofit BIPOC content accelerator Rideback Rise.
Prior to setting up Rideback, Lin was SVP Production at Warner Bros. Pictures from 1999-2007. In his double decade career as a development executive, producer and executive producer, Lin has helped bring critically acclaimed films and box-office hits to screen including Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Sherlock Holmes, It, The Two Popes, Godzilla vs. Kong and Haunted Mansion (2023).
While at Warner Bros., Lin brought the animated hits The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie, The LEGO Ninjago Movie and The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part to the big screen, and exec produced the spin-off series Unikitty! for Cartoon Network. In addition to the Last Airbender adaptation, he has had a hand in the live-action Aladdin and Death Note movies.
Stuber will be leaving Netflix to form his own company . During his tenure at Netflix Films, he is credited with transforming the streamer’s feature slate, overseeing the acquisition, development and/or production of major hits including Red Notice, Bird Box, The Power of the Dog, The Irishman, Roma and the Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
[Source: Deadline]
