A brand new documentary on pop famous person Lisa is within the works, Sony Music Imaginative and prescient revealed in the course of the firm’s inaugural content material showcase in Los Angeles Thursday night.
Produced in partnership with LLOUD CO/RCA Data and Tremolo Productions, the documentary — directed by Sue Kim — follows Lisa for a yr in her life as she pursues her solo profession away from Okay-Pop supergroup Blackpink. That journey has included the discharge of her debut album, Alter Ego, which notably landed within the Prime 10 of the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 1 on the highest album gross sales chart. She additionally carried out her first solo set at Coachella as nicely, and starred in season three of The White Lotus
Apart from her solo endeavors, Lisa shall be heading on tour with Blackpink this summer time. Nevertheless, the documentary guarantees to “give followers unique entry to Lisa with an in-depth have a look at the artist’s groundbreaking profession and artistic imaginative and prescient exterior of the world-renowned group, Blackpink.”
“I actually tried to impress upon Lisa how a lot not simply me — however I feel the world — desires to see off-stage Lisa,” Kim stated in the course of the showcase Thursday after displaying choose footage of the undertaking to these within the viewers. “She likes to seek advice from herself as, ‘I’m only a regular lady from Thailand.’ And whenever you meet her, she truly is. She’s so right down to earth. It’s fairly surprising, and so actual and so honest. However she’s very extremely discovered herself on this loopy place of being one of many greatest superstars on the planet, and even inside that world, she’s making an attempt to broaden out of it.”
Kim hails most just lately from A24’s The Final of the Sea Girls, for which she received a New York Girls in Movie and TV award after it premiered on the 2024 Toronto Movie Competition. She moreover government produced the Apple TV+ docuseries Okay-Pop Idols.
Morgan Neville and Caitrin Rogers for Tremolo Productions, and Sue Kim and Courtney Crockett for Salt Water Productions will function producers, Alice Kang and Joojong Joe function government producers for LLOUD CO., and Peter Edge, John Fleckenstein and Camille Yorrick function government producers for RCA Data. Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener and Abby Davis function government producers for Sony Music Imaginative and prescient. The doc is introduced and distributed by Sony Music Imaginative and prescient in partnership with RCA Data.
Sony Music Imaginative and prescient’s first official showcase, an upfront for the corporate’s upcoming slate, comes as the corporate has ramped up its content material in recent times, as evidenced by current movies like Sly Lives and Luther: By no means Too A lot. The corporate confirmed a teaser for his or her just lately introduced Oasis reunion tour live performance movie on Thursday, whereas Frank Marshall confirmed footage for his upcoming Barbra Streisand documentary. Baz Luhrmann completed up the showcase speaking about his upcoming Elvis live performance movie, sharing a couple of minutes of music and pictures he’s compiled to date.
“I’d’ve thought Elvis would’ve left my constructing by now, I’ve solely been on it for seven years,” Luhrmann stated, calling again to the 2022 biopic he directed. However his staff had uncovered practically 60 hours of beforehand misplaced footage, which helped set the live performance movie in movement. With the assistance of know-how, Luhrmann stated he and his staff need to “claw again” among the sound that was unavailable on the footage they discovered.
“Elvis Presley in live performance, and he’ll sing and inform his story like by no means earlier than. He’ll inform it as a result of what was outstanding is that we discovered audio of Elvis speaking about his life,” Lurhmann stated. “In my thoughts, it’s form of like you have got a dream. Elvis comes, he does a live performance, and he sings and tells you his life story.”