Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerLionsgate has closed on a first-look deal with Vertigo Entertainment, the production company behind the It franchise and The Lego Movie.
The newly-formed pact covers all media outside of television (Vertigo has a TV deal with Sony Pictures Television) including motion pictures, stage, location-based entertainment, podcasts, and video games.Vertigo and Lionsgate are currently collaborating with Point Grey on Cobweb, a thriller starring Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, and Woody Norman.
In addition, Vertigo’s Roy Lee previously worked with Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake and president of Lionsgate’s MPG Nathan Kahane as producers on films such as the Grudge franchise and The.
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