Roy Lee

Warner Bros. picks up rights to video game Five Nights at Freddy’s

Posted 11 years ago

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S, the popular video game series created by Scott Cawthon, with plans to develop a feature adaptation to be produced by Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment as well as...

Warner Bros. developing Adventure Time film with The LEGO Movie producers

Posted 11 years ago

Deadline has learned Warner Bros. is developing a feature length film based on the Cartoon Network animated series Adventure Time. Cartoon Network Studios is involved with the project, as well as creator Pendleton Ward (who will be writing and producing),...

Lionsgate picks up Ian Fried’s supernatural pitch Pentacle

Posted 11 years ago

Lionsgate and Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment have begun the process of setting up supernatural horror flick PENTACLE, based on a pitch from Black List scribe Ian Fried. Fried is the screenwriter behind SPECTRAL, which is about a SWAT team that...

Universal Cable Productions options Ian Rogers’ The House on Ashley Avenue

Posted 12 years ago

Are you ready for more haunted house terrors on the small screen? Universal Cable Productions have teamed up with Vertigo Entertainment and producer Roy Lee (THE DEPARTED, THE RING, "Bates Motel") to option TV rights to author Ian Rogers' 2012...

Warner Bros. will bring Minecraft to the big screen

Posted 12 years ago

You had to know it was coming—a big screen adaptation of MINECRAFT. Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to open world game, MINECRAFT. I’m sure you’ve heard about it by now. Someone you know plays it whether it’s your kid,...

Stephen King’s The Stand finds a new director in Josh Boone

Posted 12 years ago

It looks as if Warner Bros. and CBS Films have found their director for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's classic bestseller THE STAND after losing helmers David Yates, Ben Affleck and, most recently, Scott Cooper. THR is reporting that...

Is a TV series based on The Exorcist brewing?

Posted 13 years ago

It has been a while since we last heard anything about the potential TV series based on William Friedkin’s horror classic THE EXORCIST, but apparently there's still quite a bit of interest surrounding the project. Jeremy Slater (FANTASTIC FOUR reboot)...

Sam Raimi-produced Poltergeist remake nabs new director

Posted 13 years ago

Over the years we’ve heard persistant rumors of a POLTERGEIST remake, but it wasn’t until Sam Raimi and his Ghost House Pictures got involved that it seemed the film could actually happen. Back in October we shared the news that...

Godzilla is battling producers and perhaps two new monsters?

Posted 13 years ago

Oh, GODZILLA– it sounds like you’ve been having sort of a rough time. Hang in there, big guy, while we retrace exactly what went wrong. It seems Legendary filed suit yesterday to remove Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison...

Legendary hires Frank Darabont to rewrite Godzilla, legal battle to ensue?

Posted 13 years ago

Hot on the ass of a brief about production starting this March on Legendary’s GODZILLA resurrection, here drops a new bombshell… The great Frank Darabont (seen right) has been brought in to rewrite the script for GODZILLA, which I think...