# Vertigo Entertainment

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

## History

In 2001, after leaving film production company BenderSpink, Roy Lee started Vertigo Entertainment with partner Doug Davison.
Originally, Vertigo Entertainment signed a first-look deal with Dimension Films to produce its feature films for three years.
In 2004, Vertigo signed a deal with Universal Pictures to produce many films per year. The deal was later terminated in 2008 during the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike. In 2007, the studio signed a deal with Lionsgate Television to produce shows for television.
In 2010, Vertigo signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. to produce films.
In March 2013, Vertigo signed a two-year first-look deal with Fox 21 to develop projects for cable.
In December 2015, Vertigo expanded their partnership with Warner Bros. to include a two-year exclusive deal for drama and comedy series.
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.
In 2020, Vertigo signed a deal with Lionsgate to produce films.
In June 2024, Vertigo announced an alliance with AWA Studios to create New Horror Storytelling Pipeline.

## 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 |
| 2005 | 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 | Buena Vista Pictures | uncredited; co-production with Spyglass Entertainment, Mandeville Films and The Kennedy/Marshall Company | $40 million | $120.5 million |
| 2006 | The Lake House | Alejandro Agresti | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures | $40 million | $115 million |
| 2006 | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Plan B Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Media Asia Films | $90 million | $291.5 million |
| 2006 | 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 |
| 2008 | Shutter | Masayuki Ochiai | 20th Century Fox | co-production with Regency Enterprises | $8 million | $48 million |
| 2008 | The Strangers | Bryan Bertino | Rogue Pictures | co-production with Intrepid Pictures and Mandate Pictures | $9 million | $82.4 million |
| 2008 | My Sassy Girl | Yann Samuell | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | co-production with CJ Entertainment; direct-to-video | N/A | N/A |
| 2008 | 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 |
| 2009 | Assassination of a High School President | Brett Simon | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | co-production with Yari Film Group | $11 million | $6 million |
| 2009 | The Grudge 3 | Toby Wilkins | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | uncredited; co-production with Stage 6 Films and Ghost House Pictures | N/A | N/A |
| 2009 | 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 | $16 million | $52.5 million |
| 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 | N/A | N/A |
| 2011 | Abduction | John Singleton | Lionsgate | co-production with Quick Six Entertainment and Tailor Made Productions | $35 million | $90.1 million |
| 2011 | Asylum Blackout | Alexandre Courtes | IFC Films | co-production with Artemis Productions, Marquis Productions and Wy Productions | N/A | $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, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Lego System A/S, Lin Pictures, and Animal Logic | $60–65 million | $468.1 million |
| 2014 | The Voices | Marjane Satrapi | Lionsgate | co-production with 1984 Private Defense Contractors, Babelsberg Studio and Mandalay Vision | $11 million | $444,196 |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2015 | 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 |
| 2015 | 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 |
| 2016 | Flight 7500 | Takashi Shimizu | Lionsgate | co-production with CBS Films and Ozla Pictures | N/A | $2.8 million |
| 2016 | Blair Witch | Adam Wingard | Lionsgate | co-production with Snoot Entertainment and Room 101 | $5 million | $45.2 million |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2017 | Rings | F. Javier Gutierrez | Paramount Pictures | uncredited; co-production with Parkes + MacDonald Image Nation | $25 million | $83.1 million |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Chris McKay | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Warner Animation Group, DC Entertainment, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Lego System A/S, Lin Pictures, Lord Miller Productions, and Animal Logic | $80 million | $312 million |
| 2017 | Death Note | Adam Wingard | Netflix | co-production with LP Entertainment | $40–$50 million | N/A |
| 2017 | It | Andy Muschietti | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Lin Pictures, KatzSmith Productions, New Line Cinema and RatPac Entertainment | $35–$40 million | $701.8 million |
| 2017 | The Lego Ninjago Movie | Charlie Bean Paul Fisher Bob Logan | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Warner Animation Group, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Lego System A/S, Lin Pictures, Lord Miller Productions, and Animal Logic | $70 million | $123.1 million |
| 2017 | 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 |
| 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Mike Mitchell | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Warner Animation Group, Lego System A/S, Rideback, Lord Miller Productions, and Animal Logic | $99 million | $192.3 million |
| 2019 | It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Double Dream, Rideback and New Line Cinema | $79 million | $473.1 million |
| 2019 | Doctor Sleep | Mike Flanagan | Warner Bros. Pictures | 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 |
| 2020 | The Turning | Floria Sigismondi | Universal Pictures | co-production with DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment and Chislehurst Entertainment | $14 million | $18.6 million |
| 2020 | Brahms: The Boy II | William Brent Bell | STXfilms | uncredited; co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment | $10 million | $20.3 million |
| 2020 | 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 | $4–4.5 million | $45.4 million |
| 2022 | Don't Worry Darling | Olivia Wilde | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with New Line Cinema | $20–35 million | $87.6 million |
| 2023 | The Mother | Niki Caro | Netflix | co-production with Nuyorican Productions | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | Nimona | Nick Bruno Troy Quane | Netflix | uncredited; co-production with Annapurna Pictures | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | Cobweb | Samuel Bodin | Lionsgate | co-production with Point Grey Pictures | N/A | $8.1 million |
| 2023 | Woman of the Hour | Anna Kendrick | Netflix | co-production with Let's Go Again, AGC Studios and BoulderLight Pictures | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | Boy Kills World | Moritz Mohr | Lionsgate Roadside Attractions | co-production with Raimi Productions, Nthibah Pictures and Hammerstone Studios | N/A | $3.1 million |
| 2023 | Five Nights at Freddy's | Emma Tammi | Universal Pictures | uncredited; co-production with Blumhouse Productions, KatzSmith Productions, and Scott Cawthon Productions | $25 million | $297.1 million |
| 2024 | Ordinary Angels | Jon Gunn | Lionsgate | co-production with Kingdom Story Company, Stampede Ventures, Stolen Sky Productions and Green Hummingbird Entertainment | $12–13 million | $20.5 million |
| 2024 | The Strangers: Chapter 1 | Renny Harlin | Lionsgate | uncredited; co-production with Fifth Element Productions, Stream Media, Sherborne Media and LipSync | $8.5 million | $48 million |
| 2024 | 'Salem's Lot | Gary Dauberman | Max | co-production with New Line Cinema, Atomic Monster and Wolper Organization | N/A | N/A |
| 2025 | Companion | Drew Hancock | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with New Line Cinema, BoulderLight Pictures, Subconscious and Domain Entertainment | $10 million | N/A |

#### Upcoming

| Year | Title | Director | Distributor | Notes |
| 2025 | A Minecraft Movie | Jared Hess | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with Legendary Pictures, Mojang Studios and Domain Entertainment |
| 2025 | Until Dawn | David F. Sandberg | Sony Pictures Releasing | co-production with Screen Gems, PlayStation Productions, Coin Operated and Mangata |
| 2026 | Weapons | Zach Cregger | Warner Bros. Pictures | co-production with New Line Cinema and BoulderLight Pictures |
| 2026 | Untitled Resident Evil reboot | Zach Cregger | Sony Pictures Releasing | co-production with Columbia Pictures, PlayStation Productions and Constantin Film |
| TBA | BioShock | Francis Lawrence | Netflix | co-production with 2K |
| TBA | Every House is Haunted | Corin Hardy | Netflix | co-production with Raimi Productions and Starlight Media |
| TBA | Mice and Mystics | Alexandre Aja | Universal Pictures | co-production with DreamWorks Animation |
| TBA | The Long Walk | Francis Lawrence | Lionsgate | co-production with about:blank |
| TBA | Outlast | TBA | Lionsgate | co-production with Red Barrels |
| TBA | The Sims | Kate Herron | Amazon MGM Studios | co-production with LuckyChap Entertainment and Electronic Arts |
| TBA | Reborn | Chris McKay | Netflix | co-production with Fortis Films |
| TBA | The Witch Boy | Minkyu Lee | Netflix | |

### 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–present | Them | Little Marvin | Amazon Prime Video | co-production with Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios, Hillman Grad Productions and Odd Man Out | 2 | 18 |
| 2024–present | Hop | Marc Brown | Max CBC Kids | co-production with Epic Story Media, Loomi Animation and Marc Brown Studios | 1 | 26 |