Dan Lin
Dan Lin | |||||||||||||||
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| 林暐 | |||||||||||||||
Lin at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con | |||||||||||||||
| Born | April 8, 1973 Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BS) Harvard University (MBA) | ||||||||||||||
| Occupations | Film and television producer | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1999–present | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 林暐 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 林𬀩 | ||||||||||||||
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Dan Lin (traditional Chinese: 林暐; simplified Chinese: 林𬀩; pinyin: Lín Wěi; born April 8, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American film and television producer. He is the chairman of Netflix Films and the founder of Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures until 2018), a film and television production company that he formed in 2008. Lin produced Warner Bros.' Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, and the horror film It, which holds the record for the highest-grossing horror film. Lin also produced Disney's Aladdin, a live action adaptation of the 1992 animated feature, and Lilo and Stitch, a live action adaptation of the 2002 animated feature.