Roy Lee
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Roy Lee is an American film producer
who regularly takes well known Asia
n films and remake
s them for American
audiences. Examples include The Ring
, The Grudge
and The Departed
. Lee co-owns his production company, Vertigo Entertainment, in Beverly Hills, California
with his partner Doug Davison.
, was born in 1969 at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, in Brooklyn
, New York
, USA. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a devout Christian
, had been in America
for just three years and were still trying to fit in. Lee’s mother nurtured hopes that he would become a minister.
As an undergraduate at George Washington University
, Lee did an internship at the Washington
bureau of the law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. He began a self-improvement program in which he read a book a day, working his way through the best-seller list, from Douglas Adams
to Stephen King
. After graduating George Washington University
, Lee attended law school
at American University
Washington College of Law
where he prepared for a career in corporate law.
at American University
and working at Fried Frank for eight months, he moved to Los Angeles and soon got a job as a “tracker” at a production company called Alphaville. Trackers monitor all the spec material being submitted around Hollywood—what's good, what's bad, what's being sent where, and when, what's selling, for how much money. At the time, trackers shared information over the phone, constantly updating each other all day in an endless cycle of calls. Lee had a brainstorm: why not put the whole system online, as Fried Frank had done internally with its caseload server. In 1997, Lee set up an Internet bulletin board called Tracker for twenty of his friends, who logged and rated the scripts they read, and posted all the pertinent tracker information for each.
Within six months, Lee had established twenty-five online groups for other trackers at production companies and studios all over Hollywood. Since he was the only member who belonged to every group, he had the best information. Lee’s idea changed the spec script market forever. While spec scripts and pitches continued to sell, weaker material would be dismissed more quickly, often within a single day, to the frustration of many agents. Tracking material online brought more velocity to the market, but it also brought more honesty, it allowed development execs to sift for material more effectively, and it put more pressure on agents and producers to represent better material.
In 1999, Lee went to work for BenderSpink, a talent-management company owned by two of his friends, Chris Bender and JC Spink. He was charged with finding Internet content: short films that would play on personal computers. Lee also created with Ed Kashiba, Scriptshark, an online method for novice screenwriters to have their scripts assessed and potentially sold to major film studios. Later, Lee sold this site to iFilm which later sold it to and is currently owned by The New York Times.
Lee later became market attuned. His pitch was simple and effective: he would explain to Asian distributors that their films would probably never sell in America, because Americans hate movies with subtitles, and that they would make more money by selling the remake rights anyway. Then Lee would assure the rights holder that his agenda would never get muddled with theirs because he was going to represent them for free (with the American studio paying his fee if the film was made). Once Lee had secured the right to negotiate for an Asian company, he would tell the studios to regard the film as a script that someone had taken the trouble to film, and that happened to have been tested and proved as a hit in its home country.
Lee earned his first motion picture producing credit on Gore Verbinski
’s 2002
blockbuster The Ring. He went on to produce the 2004
haunted house horror film
The Grudge, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar
and was based on the 2000
Japanese
thriller, Ju-On
, directed by Takashi Shimizu
. The box office hit currently holds the record for the biggest horror opening weekend of all time following its October 2004 release.
The Grudge 2
was released in October 2006, starring Amber Tamblyn
and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and directed by Takashi Shimizu, which topped the box office at $22 million in its opening weekend. Also in October 2006, The Departed, a crime thriller from Warner Bros.
, directed by Martin Scorsese
and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
, Matt Damon
and Jack Nicholson
was released, grossing $27 million in its opening weekend. It was Scorsese’s biggest opening ever. The Departed later went on to win Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards
.
Currently, Lee is in various stages of development and production on a number of projects, including The Strangers
(a suspense thriller starring Liv Tyler
and Scott Speedman
), Quarantined (a horror thriller starring Jennifer Carpenter
, Jay Hernandez
and Columbus Short
and directed by John Dowdle), A Tale of Two Sisters (a horror thriller), Shutter
, and a remake
of the paranormal thriller The Eye
(starring Jessica Alba
). He worked as executive producer of the Uruguay
short film Panic Attack!, alongside Doug Davison, directed is the movie from Indie filmmaker Fede Alvarez. In January 2010 was announced that he will produced the Thriller The Voices. Lee will produce two giant monster films, a live action feature film adaption of Monsterpocalypse with director Tim Burton
and an American reboot of Godzilla from Warner Bros.
and Legendary Pictures
.
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
who regularly takes well known Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
n films and remake
Remake
A remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
s them for American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
audiences. Examples include The Ring
The Ring (2002 film)
The Ring is a 2002 American psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring....
, The Grudge
The Grudge
The Grudge is the 2004 American remake of the Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge, and the first horror film in the Ju-on series, Ju-on 1. The film is the first installment in the American horror film series The Grudge...
and The Departed
The Departed
The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
. Lee co-owns his production company, Vertigo Entertainment, in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...
with his partner Doug Davison.
Early life
Roy Lee, a Korean AmericanKorean American
Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...
, was born in 1969 at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, USA. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a devout Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
, had been in America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
for just three years and were still trying to fit in. Lee’s mother nurtured hopes that he would become a minister.
As an undergraduate at George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
, Lee did an internship at the Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
bureau of the law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. He began a self-improvement program in which he read a book a day, working his way through the best-seller list, from Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
to Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
. After graduating George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
, Lee attended law school
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...
at American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
Washington College of Law
Washington College of Law
American University Washington College of Law is the law school of American University. It is located on Massachusetts Avenue in the Spring Valley neighborhood of northwest Washington. WCL is ranked 50th among law schools by US News and World Report...
where he prepared for a career in corporate law.
Career
In 1996, after graduating law schoolLaw school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...
at American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
and working at Fried Frank for eight months, he moved to Los Angeles and soon got a job as a “tracker” at a production company called Alphaville. Trackers monitor all the spec material being submitted around Hollywood—what's good, what's bad, what's being sent where, and when, what's selling, for how much money. At the time, trackers shared information over the phone, constantly updating each other all day in an endless cycle of calls. Lee had a brainstorm: why not put the whole system online, as Fried Frank had done internally with its caseload server. In 1997, Lee set up an Internet bulletin board called Tracker for twenty of his friends, who logged and rated the scripts they read, and posted all the pertinent tracker information for each.
Within six months, Lee had established twenty-five online groups for other trackers at production companies and studios all over Hollywood. Since he was the only member who belonged to every group, he had the best information. Lee’s idea changed the spec script market forever. While spec scripts and pitches continued to sell, weaker material would be dismissed more quickly, often within a single day, to the frustration of many agents. Tracking material online brought more velocity to the market, but it also brought more honesty, it allowed development execs to sift for material more effectively, and it put more pressure on agents and producers to represent better material.
In 1999, Lee went to work for BenderSpink, a talent-management company owned by two of his friends, Chris Bender and JC Spink. He was charged with finding Internet content: short films that would play on personal computers. Lee also created with Ed Kashiba, Scriptshark, an online method for novice screenwriters to have their scripts assessed and potentially sold to major film studios. Later, Lee sold this site to iFilm which later sold it to and is currently owned by The New York Times.
Vertigo Entertainment
After setting up numerous film projects at all the major studios, he left BenderSpink, in the fall of 2001 and joined with Doug Davison to create Vertigo Entertainment. Davison would do the follow-up work on a project after Lee had done the selling. In the beginning, Lee admits that the hardest thing was making contacts abroad.Lee later became market attuned. His pitch was simple and effective: he would explain to Asian distributors that their films would probably never sell in America, because Americans hate movies with subtitles, and that they would make more money by selling the remake rights anyway. Then Lee would assure the rights holder that his agenda would never get muddled with theirs because he was going to represent them for free (with the American studio paying his fee if the film was made). Once Lee had secured the right to negotiate for an Asian company, he would tell the studios to regard the film as a script that someone had taken the trouble to film, and that happened to have been tested and proved as a hit in its home country.
Lee earned his first motion picture producing credit on Gore Verbinski
Gore Verbinski
Gregor "Gore" Verbinski is an American film director, writer and musician. He is best known for directing the films The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Rango.-Early life:...
’s 2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
blockbuster The Ring. He went on to produce the 2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
haunted house horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
The Grudge, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Prinze , known professionally by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar , is an American actress, singer and executive producer...
and was based on the 2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
Japanese
Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
thriller, Ju-On
Ju-on
is the title of a series of horror films by Japanese director Takashi Shimizu. Shimizu attended the Film School of Tokyo, where he studied under Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Kurosawa helped Shimizu shepherd the Ju-on projects to fruition.-History:...
, directed by Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu is a Japanese film director, best known for the Ju-on series of horror films.-Filmography:...
. The box office hit currently holds the record for the biggest horror opening weekend of all time following its October 2004 release.
The Grudge 2
The Grudge 2
The Grudge 2 is the 2006 sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake The Grudge. The Grudge 2 is the second film in Sony's The Grudge series and is directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Stephen Susco. The film is produced by Sam Raimi and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle...
was released in October 2006, starring Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn
Amber Rose Tamblyn is an American actress and poet. She first came to national attention in her role on the soap opera General Hospital as Emily Quartermaine, followed by a starring role on the prime-time series Joan of Arcadia portraying the title character...
and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and directed by Takashi Shimizu, which topped the box office at $22 million in its opening weekend. Also in October 2006, The Departed, a crime thriller from Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
, directed by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television...
, Matt Damon
Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...
and Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...
was released, grossing $27 million in its opening weekend. It was Scorsese’s biggest opening ever. The Departed later went on to win Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards
79th Academy Awards
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the best films of 2006 and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.The nominees were...
.
Currently, Lee is in various stages of development and production on a number of projects, including The Strangers
The Strangers
The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, and Kip Weeks...
(a suspense thriller starring Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994...
and Scott Speedman
Scott Speedman
Scott Speedman is a British-born Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for playing Ben Covington in the coming-of-age drama television series Felicity and Lycan-Vampire hybrid Michael Corvin in the gothic horror/action Underworld films.-Early life:Speedman was born Robert Scott...
), Quarantined (a horror thriller starring Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Leann Carpenter is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Emily Rose in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Debra Morgan on Dexter, and the lead role in the 2008 horror movie Quarantine.-Early life:...
, Jay Hernandez
Jay Hernandez
Javier Manuel "Jay" Hernandez, Jr. is an American actor.-Early life and career:Hernandez was born in Montebello, California, the son of Isis , a secretary and accountant, and Javier Hernandez, Sr., a mechanic. He has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. Hernandez...
and Columbus Short
Columbus Short
Columbus Keith Short, Jr. is an American choreographer, actor, and singer. He choreographed Britney Spears's Onyx Hotel Tour and worked with Brian Friedman...
and directed by John Dowdle), A Tale of Two Sisters (a horror thriller), Shutter
Shutter (2008 film)
Shutter is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008.-Plot:...
, and a remake
Remake
A remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
of the paranormal thriller The Eye
The Eye (2008 film)
The Eye is a 2008 supernatural horror film starring Jessica Alba. It is a remake of the Pang Brothers' 2002 film of the same name.-Plot:Sydney Wells is a successful classical violinist who has been blind since the age of five. Fifteen years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes...
(starring Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...
). He worked as executive producer of the Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
short film Panic Attack!, alongside Doug Davison, directed is the movie from Indie filmmaker Fede Alvarez. In January 2010 was announced that he will produced the Thriller The Voices. Lee will produce two giant monster films, a live action feature film adaption of Monsterpocalypse with director Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
and an American reboot of Godzilla from Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
and Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures is an American film production company, whose parent company, Legendary Entertainment, is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2004...
.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Ring The Ring (2002 film) The Ring is a 2002 American psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring.... |
Executive producer | Remake of Ring Ring (film) is a 1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kōji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Ōtaka as members of a divorced family... |
| 2004 | The Grudge The Grudge The Grudge is the 2004 American remake of the Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge, and the first horror film in the Ju-on series, Ju-on 1. The film is the first installment in the American horror film series The Grudge... |
Executive producer | Remake of Ju-on: The Grudge Ju-on: The Grudge is a 2003 Japanese horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is the third entry in the Ju-on series and is the first film theatrically released... |
| 2005 | The Ring Two The Ring Two The Ring Two is a 2005 American psychological horror film, and a sequel to the 2002 film The Ring, which was a remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ring... |
Executive producer | |
| Dark Water Dark Water (2005 film) Dark Water is a 2005 American horror-thriller film directed by Walter Salles, starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth. The film is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, and also stars John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite, Perla Haney-Jardine and Ariel Gade... |
Executive producer | Remake of Dark Water (2002) Dark Water (2002 film) Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese drama-horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2. Dark Water is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki. Its Japanese name is Honogurai mizu no soko kara , which is also the name of the horror anthology by Koji Suzuki... |
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| 2006 | Eight Below Eight Below Eight Below is a 2006 American adventure film directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio. It stars Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, Bruce Greenwood and Moon Bloodgood... |
Executive producer | Remake of Nankyoku Monogatari Nankyoku Monogatari is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the impossible weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and... |
| The Lake House The Lake House (film) The Lake House: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 2006.# "This Never Happened Before" - Paul McCartney# " Make You Mine" - The Clientele# "Time Has Told Me" - Nick Drake# "Ant Farm" - Eels... |
Executive producer | Remake of Il Mare Il Mare Il Mare is a 2000 South Korean film, starring Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Jung-jae. The title, Il Mare, means "The Sea" in Italian, and is the name of the seaside house which is the setting of the story. The Korean title, Siworae is the Korean pronunciation of Hanja characters "時越愛", which means... |
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| The Departed The Departed The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan... |
Executive producer | Remake of Infernal Affairs Infernal Affairs Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop path", a reference to Avici, the lowest... |
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| The Grudge 2 The Grudge 2 The Grudge 2 is the 2006 sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake The Grudge. The Grudge 2 is the second film in Sony's The Grudge series and is directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Stephen Susco. The film is produced by Sam Raimi and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle... |
Executive producer | ||
| 2007 | The Invasion The Invasion (film) The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by James McTeigue.... |
Executive producer | Based on the novel The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the fictional town of Santa Mira, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space... |
| The Strangers The Strangers The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, and Kip Weeks... |
Producer | ||
| 2008 | My Sassy Girl My Sassy Girl (2008 film) My Sassy Girl is a 2008 American remake of the 2001 Korean romantic-comedy film of the same name. It stars Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford and was directed by Yann Samuell... |
Producer | Remake of My Sassy Girl (2001) My Sassy Girl My Sassy Girl is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Kwak Jae-yong. It tells the story of a man's chance meeting with a drunk girl on the train which changes his life... |
| Shutter Shutter (2008 film) Shutter is a 2008 American remake of the 2004 Thai horror film of the same name. The remake was directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and was released on March 21, 2008.-Plot:... |
Producer | Remake of Shutter (2004) | |
| Quarantine Quarantine (film) Quarantine is a 2008 American horror film, directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Steve Harris, Rade Šerbedžija, Greg Germann, Bernard White, and Johnathon Schaech. The film is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC with a few exceptions such... |
Producer | Remake of [●REC REC (film) REC is a 2007 Spanish horror film co-written and co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.The film was released in Spain in November 2007. Balaguero and Plaza previously directed the 2002 documentary OT, The Movie. REC was filmed using shaky camerawork... ] |
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| The Eye The Eye (2008 film) The Eye is a 2008 supernatural horror film starring Jessica Alba. It is a remake of the Pang Brothers' 2002 film of the same name.-Plot:Sydney Wells is a successful classical violinist who has been blind since the age of five. Fifteen years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes... |
Executive producer | Remake of The Eye (2002) The Eye (2002 film) The Eye, also known as Seeing Ghosts, is a 2002 horror film directed by the Pang brothers. The film spawned two sequels by the Pang brothers, The Eye 2 and The Eye 10... |
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| The Echo The Echo (2008 film) The Echo is a 2008 American remake Horror film from a Filipino film originally titled Sigaw... |
Producer | Remake of Sigaw (2004) Sigaw Sigaw is a 2004 Filipino horror film directed by Yam Laranas, the title translates into either "Shout" or "Scream" in English but has been released as The Echo internationally to avoid confusion with the US horror film Scream. The film was a box office success in the Philippines where the horror... |
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| 2009 | The Uninvited The Uninvited (2009 film) The Uninvited is a 2009 American remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. It is unrelated to another 2003 Korean horror film and a 1944 American film, both of which have the same name.-Plot:... |
Producer | Remake of A Tale of Two Sisters A Tale of Two Sisters A Tale of Two Sisters is a 2003 South Korean psychological horror film written and directed by Kim Ji-woon... |
| Assassination of a High School President Assassination of a High School President Assassination of a High School President is a 2008 American neo noir comedy film, directed by Brett Simon, written by Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski, and starring Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton and Michael Rapaport... |
Producer | ||
| The Grudge 3 The Grudge 3 The Grudge 3 is the direct-to-DVD sequel to the American horror film The Grudge and its sequel, The Grudge 2. The film was directed by Toby Wilkins taking Takashi Shimizu's place. The film was released on May 12, 2009. It stars Johanna Braddy and Shawnee Smith-Plot:Jake is brutally murdered by... |
Executive producer | ||
| 2010 | Oldboy | Producer | Remake of Oldboy Oldboy Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr... |
| 2011 | It | Producer | Based on the novel It It (novel) It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous inter-dimensional predatory life-form that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It"... |
| The Strangers: Part II | Producer | Sequel to The Strangers The Strangers The Strangers is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, and starring Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, and Kip Weeks... |
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| Quarantine 2: Terminal Quarantine 2: Terminal Quarantine 2: Terminal is a 2011 American horror film directed by John Pogue and produced by Marc Brienstock. It stars Mercedes Masohn, Josh Cooke and Mattie Liptak and is a sequel to the 2008 film, Quarantine... |
Producer | Sequel to Quarantine (film) Quarantine (film) Quarantine is a 2008 American horror film, directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Steve Harris, Rade Šerbedžija, Greg Germann, Bernard White, and Johnathon Schaech. The film is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC with a few exceptions such... |
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| TBA | Godzilla | Executive producer | Reboot of Godzilla Godzilla is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,... |