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Can Netflix’s New Film Boss Dan Lin Help the Streamer Make More Movies Worth Watching?
Netflix hired Dan Lin, the producer of 'The Lego Movie' and 'It,' to run its film division. Now, he needs to help the streamer make better movies.
Sources close to Lin say he saw an opportunity to create a dynamic similar to Rideback within Netflix — making splashy auteur-driven films from established masters, while simultaneously mentoring a new generation of filmmakers. When he joined the company, Stuber’s primary focus was making major directors like Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”) and David Fincher (“The Killer”) comfortable with the idea of producing movies that would stream instead of screen in cinemas. Unlike Disney, Netflix can’t make live-action versions of moldering animated classics or mine a “Star Wars” or “Avengers” for a series of one-off adventures or interconnected cinematic universes.
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