Vertigo Entertainment

Not to be confused with Vertigo Comics or Vertigo Films.

Vertigo Entertainment is an American film and television production company based in Los Angeles, founded in 2001 by Roy Lee and Doug Davison.

Vertigo Entertainment

Industry	Film production Television production
Founded	2001; 22 years ago (2001)
Founder	Roy Lee Doug Davison
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California , United States

History

In 2001, after leaving BenderSpink, Roy Lee started Vertigo Entertainment with partner Doug Davison.^[1][2]

Originally, Vertigo Entertainment signed a first-look deal with Dimension Films to produce its feature films for three years.^[3]

In 2004, Vertigo signed a deal with Universal Pictures to produce many films per year.^[4] The deal was later terminated in 2008 during the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike.^[5] In 2007, the studio signed a deal with Lionsgate Television to produce shows for television.^[6]

In 2010, Vertigo signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. to produce films.^[7][8][9]

In March 2013, Vertigo signed a two-year first-look deal with Fox 21 to develop projects for cable.^[10]

In December 2015, Vertigo expanded their partnership with Warner Bros. to include a two-year exclusive deal for drama and comedy series.^[11]

In November 2017, Vertigo signed a multi-year first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television, including drama, comedy and unscripted programs for network, cable and streaming.^[12]

In 2020, Vertigo signed a deal with Lionsgate to produce films.^[13]

Filmography

Theatrical films

2000s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2002	The Ring	Gore Verbinski	DreamWorks Pictures	uncredited; co-production with BenderSpink and MacDonald/Parkes Productions	$48 million	$249.3 million
2004	The Grudge	Takashi Shimizu	Sony Pictures Releasing	uncredited; co-production with Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures	$10 million	$187.2 million
2005	The Ring Two	Hideo Nakata	DreamWorks Pictures	uncredited; co-production with BenderSpink and Parkes/MacDonald Productions	$50 million	$164 million
	Dark Water	Walter Salles	Buena Vista Pictures	first credited film; co-production with Touchstone Pictures and Pandemonium	$30 million	$49.4 million
2006	Eight Below	Frank Marshall		uncredited; co-production with Spyglass Entertainment, Mandeville Films and The Kennedy/Marshall Company	$40 million	$120.5 million
	The Lake House	Alejandro Agresti	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures		$115 million
	The Departed	Martin Scorsese		co-production with Plan B Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Media Asia Films	$90 million	$291.5 million
	The Grudge 2	Takashi Shimizu	Sony Pictures Releasing	uncredited; co-production with Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures	$20 million	$70.7 million
2007	The Invasion	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures and Silver Pictures	$65–80 million	$40.2 million
2008	The Eye	David Moreau Xavier Palud	Lionsgate	co-production with Paramount Vantage and Cruise/Wagner Productions	$12 million	$56.96 million
	Shutter	Masayuki Ochiai	20th Century Fox	co-production with Regency Enterprises	$8 million	$48 million
	The Strangers	Bryan Bertino	Rogue Pictures	co-production with Intrepid Pictures and Mandate Pictures	$9 million	$82.4 million
	My Sassy Girl	Yann Samuell	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment	co-production with CJ Entertainment; direct-to-video	N/A	N/A
	Quarantine	John Erick Dowdle	Sony Pictures Releasing	co-production with Screen Gems, Andale Pictures and Filmax	$12 million	$41.3 million
2009	The Uninvited	The Guard Brothers	Paramount Pictures	co-production with Cold Spring Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company, Parkes/MacDonald Productions, Goldcrest Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures	N/A	$41.6 million
	Assassination of a High School President	Brett Simon	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	co-production with Yari Film Group	$11 million	$6 million
	The Grudge 3	Toby Wilkins		uncredited; co-production with Stage 6 Films and Ghost House Pictures	N/A	N/A
	The Echo	Yam Laranas	Image Entertainment	co-production with QED International and RightOff Entertainment	$5 million	$1.5 million

2010s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2010	Possession	Joel Bergvall Simon Sandquist	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment	co-production with Yari Film Group and Spitfire Pictures	N/A	$682,713
2011	The Roommate	Christian E. Christiansen	Sony Pictures Releasing	co-production with Screen Gems	$1 million	$52.5 million
	Quarantine 2: Terminal	John Pogue	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	co-production with Third Street Pictures, RCR Media Group, Stage 6 Films and Andale Pictures	N/A	N/A
	Abduction	John Singleton	Lionsgate	co-production with Quick Six Entertainment and Tailor Made Productions	$35 million	$90.1 million
	Asylum Blackout	Alexandre Courtes	IFC Films	co-production with Artemis Productions, Marquis Productions and Wy Productions	$500,000	$98,201
2012	The Woman in Black	James Watkins	CBS Films	uncredited; co-production with Alliance Films, Hammer Films, UK Film Council, Cross Creek Pictures, Tailsman Films, Exclusive Media Group and Film i Vast	$15 million	$129 million
2013	Oldboy	Spike Lee	FilmDistrict	co-production with Good Universe and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks	$30 million	$4.8 million
2014	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord & Christopher Miller	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Warner Animation Group, Village Roadshow Pictures, LEGO A/S, Lin Pictures and Animal Logic	$60–65 million	$468.1 million
	The Voices	Marjane Satrapi	Lionsgate	co-production with 1984 Private Defense Contractors, Babelsberg Studio and Mandalay Vision	$11 million	$444,196
	The Woman in Black: Angel of Death	Tom Harper	Relativity Media	uncredited; co-production with Entertainment One and Hammer Films	$15 million	$48.9 million
2015	Run All Night	Jaume Collet-Serra	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with RatPac-Dune Entertainment and Energy Entertainment	$50–61.6 million	$71.6 million
	Poltergeist	Gil Kenan	20th Century Fox	co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ghost House Pictures and TSG Entertainment	$35 million	$95.4 million
	Hidden	The Duffer Brothers	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Primal Pictures	N/A	$310,273
2016	The Boy	William Brent Bell	STX Entertainment	co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Pictures	$10 million	$64.1 million
	Flight 7500	Takashi Shimizu	Lionsgate	co-production with CBS Films and Ozla Pictures	N/A	$2.8 million
	Blair Witch	Adam Wingard		co-production with Snoot Entertainment and Room 101	$5 million	$45.2 million
	In the Shadow of Iris	Jalil Lespert	Netflix	uncredited; co-production with Wy Productions, Universal Pictures International, Nexus Factory, uFund, uMedia, France Televisions, Canal+, Cine+, Cofinova 12, Cofinova 13, Indefilms and Cofimage 27	N/A	$1.5 million
2017	Sleepless	Baran bo Odar	Open Road Films	co-production with Riverstone Pictures	$30 million	$32.9 million
	Rings	F. Javier Gutierrez	Paramount Pictures	co-production with Parkes + MacDonald Imagenation	$25 million	$83.1 million
	The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Warner Animation Group, DC Entertainment, RatPac Entertainment, Lego System A/S, Animal Logic, Lin Pictures and Lord Miller	$80 million	$312 million
	Death Note	Adam Wingard	Netflix		$40-$50 million	N/A
	It	Andy Muschietti	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Lin Pictures, KatzSmith Productions and New Line Cinema	$35 million	$701.8 million
	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Charlie Bean Paul Fisher Bob Logan		co-production with Lego System A/S, Lin Pictures, Lord Miller Productions, Warner Animation Group, Animal Logic and RatPac Entertainment	$70 million	$123.1 million
	The Disaster Artist	James Franco	A24	uncredited; co-production with Point Grey Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Good Universe and Rabbit Bandini Productions	$10 million	$29.8 million
2018	Extinction	Ben Young	Netflix	uncredited; co-production with Good Universe and Mandeville Films	N/A	N/A
2019	Polaroid	Lars Klevberg	Vertical Entertainment	co-production with Dimension Films, Benderspink and Eldorado Film	N/A	$2.4 million
	The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part	Mike Mitchell	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Rideback, Lord Miller, Animal Logic, Lego System A/S and Warner Animation Group	$99 million	$192.3 million
	It Chapter Two	Andy Muschietti		co-production with Double Dream, Rideback and New Line Cinema	$79 million	$473.1 million
	Doctor Sleep	Mike Flanagan		co-production with Intrepid Pictures	$45 million	$72.3 million

2020s

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2020	The Grudge	Nicolas Pesce	Sony Pictures Releasing	uncredited; co-production with Screen Gems, Stage 6 Films and Ghost House Pictures	$10–14 million	$49.5 million
	The Turning	Floria Sigismondi	Universal Pictures	co-production with DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment and Chislehurst Entertainment	$14 million	$18.6 million
	Brahms: The Boy II	William Brent Bell	STXfilms	uncredited; co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment	$10 million	$20.3 million
	His House	Remi Weekes	Netflix	co-production with Regency Enterprises, BBC Films and Starchild Pictures	N/A	N/A
2022	Barbarian	Zach Cregger	20th Century Studios	co-production with Regency Enterprises, Almost Never Films and BoulderLight Pictures	$10.5 million	$24.6 million
	Don't Worry Darling	Olivia Wilde	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with New Line Cinema	$20—35 million	N/A

Upcoming

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Notes
2023	Nimona	Nick Bruno Troy Quane	Netflix	co-production with Annapurna Animation^[14]
	The Mother	Niki Caro		co-production with Nuyorican Productions
TBA	BioShock	Francis Lawrence		co-production with 2K^[15]
	Boy Kills World	Moritz Mohr	TBA	co-production with Raimi Productions, Nthibah Pictures, and Hammerstone Studios
	Cobweb	Samuel Bodin	Lionsgate	co-production with Point Grey Pictures
	Untitled Minecraft film	Jared Hess^[16]	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Mojang Studios
	Salem's Lot	Gary Dauberman		co-production with New Line Cinema and Atomic Monster Productions
	Mice and Mystics	Alexandre Aja	Universal Pictures	co-production with DreamWorks Animation^[17]
	Ordinary Angels	Jon Gunn	Lionsgate	co-production with Kingdom Story Company, Stampede Ventures, Stolen Sky Productions and Green Hummingbird Entertainment^[18]
	Reborn	Chris McKay	Netflix	co-production with Fortis Films^[19]
	The Witch Boy	Minkyu Lee		^[20]

Television series

2000s

Year	Title	Creator	Network	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
2007	I'm from Rolling Stone	Shari Brooks	MTV	co-production with Maverick Films, Rolling Stone and Yolo Films	1	10

2010s

Year	Title	Creator	Network	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
2013–2014	Bates Motel	based on characters from Psycho by: Robert Bloch developed by: Carlton Cuse Kerry Ehrin Anthony Cipriano	A&E	uncredited; seasons 1–2; co-production with American Genre (season 1), Kerry Ehrin Productions, Carlton Cuse Productions (season 2) and Universal Television	2	20
2016	The Exorcist	Jeremy Slater based on The Exorcist by: William Peter Blatty	Fox	uncredited; season 1; co-production with New Neighborhood, Morgan Creek Productions and 20th Century Fox Television	1	10
2017–2020	Unikitty!	based on The Lego Movie by: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller developed by: Ed Skudder Lynn Wang	Cartoon Network	uncredited; co-production with The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation	3	104

2020s

Year	Title	Creator	Network	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
2020–2021	The Stand	based on The Stand by: Stephen King developed by: Josh Boone Ben Cavell	CBS All Access	co-production with Mosaic Media Group and CBS Studios	1	9
2021	Them	Little Marvin	Amazon Prime Video	co-production with Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios		10

Upcoming

Year	Title	Creator	Network	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
TBA	Horizon	based on Horizon Zero Dawn by: Mathijs de Jonge developed by: Steve Blackman Michelle Lovretta	Netflix	co-production with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, Guerrilla Games and Irish Cowboy Productions	1	TBA

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