Vertigo Entertainment
|Industry||Film production|
|Founded||2001|
|Founder||Roy Lee|
|Headquarters|
Television production
Doug Davison
Vertigo Entertainment is an American film and television production company based in Los Angeles, founded in 2001 by Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
History[edit]
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, it 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 has 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 the Fox 21 to develop the 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[edit]
Films[edit]
2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
2020s[edit]
|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|
Upcoming[edit]
|Year||Title||Director||Distributor||Notes|
|TBD||Cobweb||Samuel Bodin||Lionsgate||co-production with Point Grey Pictures|
|Don't Worry Darling||Olivia Wilde||Warner Bros. Pictures||co-production with New Line Cinema|
|Minecraft||Peter Sollett||co-production with Mojang|
|The Witch Boy||Minkyu Lee||Netflix||An original animated fantasy musical film|
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Molly Ostertag
Direct-to-video[edit]
2000s[edit]
|Year||Title||Director||Distributor||Notes|
|2009||The Grudge 3||Toby Wilkins||Sony Pictures Home Entertainment||uncredited; co-production with Stage 6 Films and Ghost House Pictures|
2010s[edit]
|Year||Title||Director||Distributor||Notes|
|2011||Quarantine 2: Terminal||John Pogue||Sony Pictures Home Entertainment||co-production with Third Street Pictures, RCR Media Group, Stage 6 Films and Andale Pictures|
|2017||Death Note||Adam Wingard||Netflix||co-production with LP Entertainment and Lin Pictures|
|2018||Extinction||Ben Young||uncredited; co-production with Good Universe and Mandeville Films|
2020s[edit]
|Year||Title||Director||Distributor||Notes|
|2020||His House||Remi Weekes||Netflix||co-production with Regency Enterprises, BBC Films and Starchild Pictures|
Television[edit]
|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|
|2013-2014||Bates Motel||based on characters from Psycho by:||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||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:||Cartoon Network||uncredited; co-production with Warner Bros. Animation, GO-N International, Renegade Animation, The Lego Group and Snipple Animation||3||85|
|2020||The Stand||based on The Stand by:||CBS All Access||co-production with Mosaic Media Group and CBS Television Studios||TBA|
Robert Bloch
developed by:
Carlton Cuse
Kerry Ehrin
Anthony Cipriano
based on The Exorcist by:
William Peter Blatty
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
developed by:
Ed Skudder
Lynn Wang
Stephen King
developed by:
Josh Boone
Ben Cavell
References[edit]
- ^ "Roy Lee: Hollywood Dealmaker". goldsea.com. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ "The 30 Most Powerful Film Producers in Hollywood: Roy Lee". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ Lyons, Charles; Brodesser, Claude (2001-10-16). "Dimension to get pix from Vertigo's Lee, Davison". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Brodesser, Claude (2004-08-20). "Vertigo spins with U, Focus". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Graser, Marc; Siegel, Tatiana (2008-01-10). "Studios end first-look relationships". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Adalian, Josef (2007-06-27). "Vertigo pacts with Lionsgate TV". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ McNary, Dave (2010-12-02). "Producer on a WB spree". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Fleming Jr, Mike (March 6, 2012). "Producer Trio Starts Primal Pictures, Putting Warner Bros Into Low Budget Genre Game". deadline.com. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ "Producer, Vertigo Entertainment". screenforever.org.au. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ Marechal, AJ (March 4, 2013). "Vertigo Inks First Look Deal with Fox 21". variety.com. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ "Vertigo Entertainment Inks Overall Deal With Warner Bros. TV, Taps Michael Connolly As Head Of Television". www.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (2017-11-02). "Roy Lee's Vertigo Entertainment Inks First-Look Deal With Sony TV". Variety. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ Lee, Janet W.; Lee, Janet W. (2020-09-24). "Lionsgate Inks First-Look Deal With Vertigo Entertainment". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
External links[edit]
- 2001 establishments in California
- American companies established in 2001
- Mass media companies established in 2001
- Film production companies of the United States
- Companies based in Los Angeles
- Vertigo Entertainment