Roy Lee

Roy Lee is an American film and television producer. He is the founder of production company Vertigo Entertainment and co-founded Spooky Pictures with Steven Schneider.

Early life Lee was born at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Wyckoff Heights, Brooklyn, to Korean parents. His father, a doctor, and his mother, had been in the United States for just three years and were still acclimating. Lee's mother, a devout Christian, nurtured hopes that he would become a minister.

During his undergraduate studies at George Washington University, Lee interned at the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. After graduating GWU, Lee attended law school at American University Washington College of Law where he prepared for a career in corporate law.

Career In 1996, after graduating from law school at American University and working at Fried Frank for eight months, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a "tracker" at a production company called Alphaville. Trackers monitor spec material and dealmaking. At the time, trackers shared information over the phone, constantly updating each other in an endless cycle of calls.

Online tracking One of Lee's "tracker" friends, Polly Cohen Johnsen, had been updating the story department at Jersey Films and had the idea to put their tracking group online. Lee joined forces with Johnsen and Glenn Gregory of Propaganda Films to convert their daily phone calls into an online tracking group. In 1997, Lee set up an Internet bulletin board called Tracker for twenty of his friends, who rated scripts and posted pertinent tracker information for each.

Within six months, Lee had established twenty-five online groups for other trackers at production companies and studios in Hollywood. Since he was the only member who belonged to every group, he had the best information. Lee's project changed the spec script market forever. While spec scripts and pitches continued to sell, weaker material was dismissed more quickly, often within a single day, to the frustration of many agents. Online tracking accelerated the market, brought more honesty, allowed development execs to sift for material more effectively and put more pressure on agents and producers to represent better material.

Filmography Producer

Dark Water (2005) The Lake House (2006) Assassination of a High School President (2008) Shutter (2008) The Strangers (2008) The Echo (2008) Quarantine (2008) The Uninvited (2009) Possession (2009) Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) The Roommate (2011) Abduction (2011) Oldboy (2013) The Voices (2014) The Lego Movie (2014) Flight 7500 (2014) Run All Night (2015) Poltergeist (2015) Hidden (2015) The Boy (2016) Rise (2016) Blair Witch (2016) Sleepless (2017) The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Death Note (2017) It (2017) The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) Polaroid (2019) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) It Chapter Two (2019) The Turning (2020) His House (2020) Brahms: The Boy II (2020) Watcher (2022) Barbarian (2022) Don't Worry Darling (2022) Late Night with the Devil (2023) The Mother (2023) Nimona (2023) Cobweb (2023) Woman of the Hour (2023) Boy Kills World (2023) Strange Darling (2023) Ordinary Angels (2024) Desert Road (2024) 'Salem's Lot (2024) Companion (2025) A Minecraft Movie (2025) Until Dawn (2025) The Plague (2025) Weapons (2025) The Long Walk (2025) V/H/S/Halloween (2025) The Vile (2025) Psycho Killer (2026) Hokum (2026) Company (2026) The Liberation (2026) Resident Evil (2026) V/H/S/Mixtape (2026) The Shepherd (2026) Possession (2027) A Minecraft Movie Squared (2027) Anything but Ghosts (2027)

Executive producer

The Ring (2002) The Grudge (2004) The Ring Two (2005) Eight Below (2006) The Departed (2006) The Grudge 2 (2006) I'm from Rolling Stone (2007) The Invasion (2007) The Eye (2008) My Sassy Girl (2008) The Grudge 3 (2009) Asylum Blackout (2011) The Woman in Black (2012) Bates Motel (2013–2017) The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2014) The Exorcist (2016-2017) The Master: A Lego Ninjago Short (2016) Iris (2016) Rings (2017) The Disaster Artist (2017) Unikitty! (2017–2020) Extinction (2018) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Doctor Sleep (2019) The Grudge (2019) The Stand (2020-2021) Them (2021-2024) Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Baghead (2023) Dead Mail (2024) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) V/H/S/Beyond (2024) Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting (2025) How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Undertone (2025) The Strangers – Chapter 2 (2025) It: Welcome to Derry (2025–present) The Strangers – Chapter 3 (2026) Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027) Skeletons (2027) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027) God of War (TBA)

Co-producer

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)