New Lisa Documentary In The Works at Sony Music Vision

A brand new documentary on pop celebrity Lisa is within the works, Sony Music Vision revealed throughout the firm’s inaugural content material showcase in Los Angeles Thursday night. 

Produced in partnership with LLOUD CO/RCA Records and Tremolo Productions, the documentary — directed by Sue Kim — follows Lisa for a 12 months 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 Top 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 effectively, and starred in season three of The White Lotus

Aside from her solo endeavors, Lisa will probably be heading on tour with Blackpink this summer time. However, the documentary guarantees to “give fans exclusive access to Lisa with an in-depth look at the artist’s groundbreaking career and creative vision outside of the world-renowned group, Blackpink.”

“I really tried to impress upon Lisa how much not just me — but I think the world — wants to see off-stage Lisa,” Kim mentioned throughout the showcase Thursday after displaying choose footage of the challenge to these within the viewers. “She loves to refer to herself as, ‘I’m just a normal girl from Thailand.’ And when you meet her, she actually is. She’s so down to earth. It’s quite shocking, and so real and so sincere. But she’s very incredibly found herself in this crazy position of being one of the biggest superstars in the world, and even within that world, she’s trying to expand out of it.”

Kim hails most lately from A24’s The Last of the Sea Women, for which she received a New York Women in Film and TV award after it premiered on the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. She moreover govt 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 govt producers for LLOUD CO., and Peter Edge, John Fleckenstein and Camille Yorrick function govt producers for RCA Records. Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener and Abby Davis function govt producers for Sony Music Vision. The doc is offered and distributed by Sony Music Vision in partnership with RCA Records.

Sony Music Vision’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: Never Too Much. The firm confirmed a teaser for his or her 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 photographs he’s compiled to this point. 

“I would’ve thought Elvis would’ve left my building by now, I’ve only been on it for seven years,” Luhrmann mentioned, calling again to the 2022 biopic he directed. But his group had uncovered practically 60 hours of beforehand misplaced footage, which helped set the live performance movie in movement. With the assistance of expertise, Luhrmann mentioned he and his group need to “claw back” a few of the sound that was unavailable on the footage they discovered. 

“Elvis Presley in concert, and he will sing and tell his story like never before. He will tell it because what was remarkable is that we found audio of Elvis talking about his life,” Lurhmann mentioned. “In my mind, it’s kind of like you have a dream. Elvis comes, he does a concert, and he sings and tells you his life story.”