Deadline has confirmed that Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment and LeBron James’ SpringHill Entertainment are in talks to bring Friday the 13th back to the big screen. The news comes in the wake of Universal / Miramax / Blumhouse’s Halloween hitting an all-time opening record for its slasher franchise with $76.2 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has landed Intruders, a script by Armored screenwriter James V. Simpson that is best described as an alien home invasion thriller. The concept is inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the “Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter," in which a Kentucky family claimed to have survived an all-night…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency and BBC Films have taken on rights to red-hot feature script His House, I understand. First-time UK writer-director Remi Weekes’ elevated genre title hit the headlines last summer when it became caught in a $10M ownership lawsuit launched by The Weinstein Company. Senior management at The…

Roy Lee's Vertigo Entertainment has signed a multi-year first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television Studios. which covers drama, comedy and unscripted for network, cable and streaming. Vertigo’s Michael Connolly will continue to run the company’s TV operations. In addition Melissa Lora has been upped to Director of…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Dracul, the first prequel authorized by the estate of Bram Stoker. The film will be developed as potential directing vehicle down the line for Andy Muschietti, reteamed with It producers Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee. Written by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment has set Floria Sigismondi to direct The Turning, a Chad & Carey Hayes script that is inspired by the 1898 Henry James novella The Turn Of The Screw. Scott Bernstein and Roy Lee are producing a contemporized version of the classic ghost story, eyeing an early 2018 production start…

Image Nation Abu Dhabi has signed a three-year deal with Roy Lee and Steven Schneider to produce a slate of high-concept, English-language dark genre films. The plan is to make at least one pic a year at a modest budget financed by Image Nation, with the focus on international appeal and franchise potential. No…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to broaden its feature film slate, negotiating toward a pre-emptive acquisition of Yuba, a spec script by newcomer writer Eamon O’Sullivan. The film will be produced by Free Association’s Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan, along with Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Energy…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has acquired feature film rights to the graphic novel series Delilah Dirk And The Turkish Lieutenant from author Tony Cliff. The literary property, which is an action adventure tale set in the early 19th century, was first published by First Second Books. The story follows Delilah, described as a…

BREAKING: Warner Bros. and 1821 Media have partnered  to develop an untitled ‘Treasure Hunt’ project, an original concept by 1821’s Terry Dougas about a group of treasure seekers who steal artifacts from museums around the world and through the criminal underworld set out in pursuit of the greatest treasure of all…

Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment is expanding its longterm relationship with Warner Bros. to the television side with a two-year exclusive overall deal at Warner Bros. TV for drama and comedy series. The company’s TV operations will be headed by Michael Connolly, who previously founded management/production company Mad…

EXCLUSIVE: Over two years after they started to take legal bites out of each other over the big lizard, Legendary Pictures and producers Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Doug Davison have come to a settlement. No details of the agreement were made public, but paperwork was filed today to dismiss the complaints filed by both sides…