Roy Lee Movie Updates

Warner Bros Pictures last night just closed all deals for a WME-packaged live-action movie based on Archie Comics.

Warner Bros has acquired rights to make a movie based on Dungeons & Dragons.

Sony Pictures has emerged from a three studio bidding battle with screen rights to remake the Korean crime film New World.

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Julie Kibler's book Calling Me Home for an adaptation to be produced by Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment.

MGM has found a director for its remake of the horror classic Poltergeist.

Wrath of the Titans writer David Leslie Johnson is joining forces with producers Roy Lee and John Middleton of Vertigo Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures on the action-adventure fantasy film, Chainmail.

Producers Roy Lee and Taka Ichise are teaming on a live action feature adaptation of The Suicide Forest, the graphic novel from IDW Publishing. They’ve attached Hideo Nakata to direct.

Warner Bros. has pre-emptively acquired a futuristic action pitch titled "Law Zero" from Bruno Zacarias and Miguel "Macgregor" de Olaso, who make films under the name Zac&Mac. Roy Lee is set to produce the project.

In what might be the first solid spec sale of 2012, Warner Bros made a preemptive acquisition of The All-Nighter, an actioner scripted by Brad Ingelsby.

Warner Bros has acquired The Vatican, a pitch for a conspiracy-driven thriller to be scripted by David Cohen. William Brent Bell, who directed and co-wrote the weekend’s surprise hit The Devil Inside for Paramount’s Insurge release label, has made a deal to direct the film.

Screen Gems has picked up rights to a creepy student-made short entitled Viral with the plan of spinning it into a feature.

Warner Bros. Pictures has purchased the spec script Hidden from twin brothers and recent college graduates Matt and Ross Duffer, who are also set to direct the pic that the studio is committed to starting as early as 2012.

French action pic Sleepless Night is the next Toronto Midnight Madness movie to get the Hollywood treatment.

Warner Bros. has acquired feature film rights to Nate Simpson's comicbook Nonplayer from publisher Image Comics and has set up the potential tentpole project with producers Roy Lee and David Heyman.

After a three-year hiatus, Spike Lee has found his next feature directing project, committing to helm Mandate Pictures' remake of the South Korean thriller "Oldboy."

CBS Films has acquired Flight 75, a pitch for a thriller that will be directed by The Grudge helmer Takashi Shimizu. Project was bought on a treatment by Shimizu and a writer will be set momentarily. It is described as a claustrophobic thriller set on a transpacific airliner where the passengers encounter what appears to be a su ...

After co-writing his recently wrapped comedy Goon, Baruchel has signed on to write the adaptation of Kickstart Comics’ Random Acts of Violence and is in final negotiations to rewrite Summit’s Exorcism Diaries.

Stephen King's grand opus The Stand is finally getting the big-screen treatment. Warner Bros. and CBS Films are teaming to adapt the novel, which in many ways set the bar for a generation of post-apocalyptic stories and influenced works ranging from TV's Lost to music group Anthrax.

Remake rights are being shopped this week for Carancho, the Pablo Trapero-directed thriller which Argentina has submitted for the Best Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards.

Producers Roy Lee (The Ring) of Vertigo Entertainment and Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity) of Room 101 are developing a remake of the 1978 Irwin Allen disaster movie The Swarm, TheWrap has learned.

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up Kevin and Dan Hageman's high-concept pitch for a live-action/CGI hybrid about the fictional Acme Corp., purveyor of crazy and outlandish products.

Summit Entertainment is going time traveling via "Tempest," based on Julie Cross' upcoming novel.

Brad Fischer ("Shutter Island") is developing S. Craig Zahler's Western drama "The Brigands of Rattleborge" after snapping up the rights amid competitive bidding.

Warner Bros. is bringing the video game "Spy Hunter" to the big screen. The studio, which bought the title as part of its acquisition of Midway Games last year, has tapped Chad St. John to pen the script for a feature adaptation.