Apple cuts an exclusive TV development deal with blockbuster director Justin Lin
Just days next tidings that Apple had landed all-new exclusive Peanuts content for an upcoming streaming service to live on launched inward the minute one-half of 2019, discussion arrived Mon of unopen to other exclusive deal, this ane amongst the “Fast in addition to Furious” manager Justin Lin.
The Mac maker has signed an exclusive TV evolution bargain amongst the Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment society afterwards “a competitive bidding process,” according to Variety.
He moves to Apple afterwards 6 years amongst Sony Pictures Television.
As business office of the Apple pact, Andrew Schneider has come upward on board to run Perfect Storm Entertainment TV. Schneider was close of late caput of TV for multi-platform production society Free Association in addition to previously worked at Fox 21 Television Studios.
The manager is responsible for breathing a novel lease of life into the somewhat stalled “Fast in addition to the Furious” franchise amongst 2006’s “Fast in addition to the Furious: Tokyo Drift” (he is currently at scope the 9th installment of this successful series).
Lin, 47, is rattling well-known for his directorial scope “Star Trek Beyond” in addition to episodes of “Community” in addition to “True Detective.” His Perfect Storm Entertainment has created several shows for Sony Television in addition to CBS including “Scorpion,” “S.W.A.T” in addition to “Magnum P.I.”
His films convey grossed 2.3 billion worldwide every bit of March 2017. A Wired profile from 2016 described him every bit “the close of import blockbuster manager you’ve never heard of”.
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