Taiwanese-born American filmmaker Justin Lin has listed a multilevel live-work loft atop a converted factory complex in downtown Los Angeles with an asking price of $7 million.
The celebrated film director, who has helmed a handful of the blockbuster Fast & Furious films, including 2021’s F9, which grossed almost three quarters of a billion bucks in worldwide box office, as well as the next two upcoming installments of the seemingly endless franchise, hopes to turns an impressive profit on the cavernous loft that he scooped up in 2012 for $2.6 million from architecture savvy actor, artist and provocateur Vincent Gallo. So the story goes, Gallo never lived in the loft, at least not full time, and at one point he leased it to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
Lin, who grew up in Orange County’s Buena Park but for at least the last decade has made his primary home in Pasadena, where he owns a couple residential properties,...
The celebrated film director, who has helmed a handful of the blockbuster Fast & Furious films, including 2021’s F9, which grossed almost three quarters of a billion bucks in worldwide box office, as well as the next two upcoming installments of the seemingly endless franchise, hopes to turns an impressive profit on the cavernous loft that he scooped up in 2012 for $2.6 million from architecture savvy actor, artist and provocateur Vincent Gallo. So the story goes, Gallo never lived in the loft, at least not full time, and at one point he leased it to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
Lin, who grew up in Orange County’s Buena Park but for at least the last decade has made his primary home in Pasadena, where he owns a couple residential properties,...
- 1/8/2022
- by Mark David, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Johnny Lin’s Filmula and Allen Liu‘s E Stars are teaming to finance U.S. and international movies for distribution in China, the parties said at Afm today. Filmula will produce and co-finance with E Stars films ranging from commercial tentpoles to Oscar-driven material for E Stars to distribute.
The deal also will incorporate Indian financing., they said.
Lin was an executive producer of the Tom Cruise crime thriller American Made and, through his relationship with Brian Oliver’s New Republic Pictures, has an overall deal with Paramount. His relationship with Liu dates to the 1990s, when Liu was working with Lin and his father, Jimmy Lin, who produced Jet Li’s breakthrough The Legend films, introduced Laser Disc technology to the Pan-Asian market in the ’80s, and set up an output deal with New Line Cinema for distribution in Taiwan.
“Early on, I was exposed to an intriguing...
The deal also will incorporate Indian financing., they said.
Lin was an executive producer of the Tom Cruise crime thriller American Made and, through his relationship with Brian Oliver’s New Republic Pictures, has an overall deal with Paramount. His relationship with Liu dates to the 1990s, when Liu was working with Lin and his father, Jimmy Lin, who produced Jet Li’s breakthrough The Legend films, introduced Laser Disc technology to the Pan-Asian market in the ’80s, and set up an output deal with New Line Cinema for distribution in Taiwan.
“Early on, I was exposed to an intriguing...
- 11/3/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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