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Roy Lee

Highest Rated: 97% Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Lowest Rated: 3% The Roommate (2011)

Birthday: Mar 23, 1969

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

With a keen eye for finding films from the world of Asian cinema that will work well when adapted for worldwide audiences, Roy Lee has produced some of the top films of the 2000s, including the horror thriller "The Ring" and the Oscar-winning "The Departed." Before even producing his first film, Lee became famous in Hollywood for creating the web bulletin board called Tracker, which allowed script trackers-those who trace what scripts are being sold and to whom-to convene online. Much to the chagrin of Hollywood agents, this let those in film development find the best scripts faster. After working at a talent management company and creating ScriptShark, which assessed rookie screenwriters' work online, he formed Vertigo Entertainment with Doug Davison in 2001. The company made a killing with films made in the Asian markets, selling the remake rights to Hollywood while taking a piece of the pie. This initially worked like gangbusters for the 2002 and 2004 horror films "The Ring" and "The Grudge," Hollywood remakes of Japan's "Ringu" and "Ju-On." Lee did this again and again, mostly with Japanese horror thrillers, until he had his biggest smash with Martin Scorcese's double-crossing cops and robbers feature, "The Departed," a remake of the Hong Kong smash "Infernal Affairs." Since then, Lee's career has skyrocketed, with producer credits on the MTV reality series "I'm from Rolling Stone" and the animated adventure "How to Train Your Dragon."

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Highest rated movies

97% 81% Late Night with the Devil Watchlist 96% 87% The LEGO Movie Watchlist 95% 85% Strange Darling Watchlist 95% Dead Mail Watchlist 92% 90% Nimona Watchlist 92% 71% Barbarian Watchlist 91% 67% Woman of the Hour Watchlist 91% 94% The Departed Watchlist 89% 80% The LEGO Batman Movie Watchlist 88% 67% Watcher Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Minecraft Movie Producer - 2025
No Score Yet No Score Yet Companion Producer - 2025
46% 39% Salem's Lot Producer - 2024
84% 99% Ordinary Angels Executive Producer,
Producer
$19.1M 2024
95% No Score Yet Dead Mail Executive Producer - 2024
91% 67% Woman of the Hour Producer - 2023
95% 85% Strange Darling Producer - 2023
59% 73% Boy Kills World Producer $2.6M 2023
29% 38% Baghead Executive Producer - 2023
97% 81% Late Night with the Devil Producer $10.0M 2023
59% 72% Cobweb Producer $440.0K 2023
92% 90% Nimona Producer - 2023
43% 62% The Mother Producer - 2023
38% 74% Don't Worry Darling Producer $45.3M 2022
92% 71% Barbarian Producer $40.8M 2022
88% 67% Watcher Producer $2.0M 2022
76% 91% Godzilla vs. Kong Executive Producer $100.4M 2021
11% 44% Brahms: The Boy II Producer $12.6M 2020
12% 15% The Turning Producer $15.5M 2020
20% 23% The Grudge Executive Producer $21.2M 2020
78% 89% Doctor Sleep Executive Producer $31.6M 2019
No Score Yet 29% Polaroid Producer - 2019
62% 78% It: Chapter Two Producer $211.6M 2019
42% 83% Godzilla: King of the Monsters Executive Producer $110.5M 2019
84% 68% The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Producer $105.8M 2019
32% 47% Extinction Executive Producer - 2018
56% 46% The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Producer $59.3M 2017
85% 84% It Producer $327.5M 2017
36% 23% Death Note Producer - 2017
89% 80% The LEGO Batman Movie Producer $175.7M 2017
8% 23% Rings Executive Producer $27.8M 2017
25% 37% Sleepless Producer $20.7M 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lego Ninjago Filmen Producer - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boys Producer - 2016
No Score Yet 60% In the Shadow of Iris Executive Producer - 2016
38% 31% Blair Witch Producer $20.7M 2016
31% 38% The Boy Producer $35.8M 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Master: A Lego Ninjago Short Executive Producer - 2016
83% 68% Hidden Producer - 2015
29% 22% Poltergeist Producer $47.3M 2015
59% 56% Run All Night Producer $26.5M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Polaroid Producer - 2015
No Score Yet 28% Flight 7500 Producer - 2014
74% 58% The Voices Producer - 2014
25% 24% The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death Executive Producer $26.5M 2014
96% 87% The LEGO Movie Producer $257.8M 2014
39% 37% Oldboy Producer $2.2M 2013
66% 54% The Woman in Black Executive Producer $54.3M 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Melo Director,
Writer
- 2012
No Score Yet 35% The Incident Executive Producer - 2011
5% 42% Abduction Producer $28.1M 2011
67% 34% Quarantine 2: Terminal Producer - 2011
3% 27% The Roommate Producer $37.3M 2011
No Score Yet 27% The Grudge 3 Executive Producer - 2009
31% 49% The Uninvited Producer $28.6M 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 30% Possession Producer - 2008
No Score Yet 32% The Echo Producer - 2008
55% 46% Assassination of a High School President Producer - 2008
55% 44% Quarantine Producer $31.7M 2008
49% 48% The Strangers Producer $52.5M 2008
11% 33% Shutter Producer $25.9M 2008
20% 40% The Invasion Executive Producer $15.1M 2007
91% 94% The Departed Executive Producer $132.4M 2006
35% 73% The Lake House Producer $52.3M 2006
47% 28% Dark Water Producer $25.5M 2005
21% 33% The Ring Two Executive Producer $75.9M 2005
40% 46% The Grudge Executive Producer $110.2M 2004
71% 48% The Ring Executive Producer $128.6M 2002

TV

Credit
79% 79% Them Executive Producer 2021 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unikitty Executive Producer 2017-2020 2022
57% 25% The Stand Executive Producer 2020-2021
89% 91% The Exorcist Executive Producer 2016-2017
93% 91% Bates Motel Executive Producer 2013