International celebrity Lisa, who rose to fame with Blackpink and is now balancing that group with a profitable solo recording profession and transfer into appearing, is the topic of a documentary movie in manufacturing from Sony Music Imaginative and prescient and director Sue Kim, it was introduced Thursday night time.

The information got here throughout an upfront Sony Music Imaginative and prescient held in Hollywood to dive right into a slate of music movie tasks that the corporate at present has within the works. Kim was readily available to debate her film about Lisa, as have been fellow administrators Baz Luhrmann, who spoke at size a few just lately introduced Elvis Presley documentary he has within the rough-cut stage, and Frank Marshall, who confirmed a couple of minutes of footage from his Barbra Streisand doc-in-progress.

Kim mentioned she spent a yr working with Lisa on the forthcoming movie, for which no launch date was given. The filmmaker’s earlier acclaimed directorial work has been with much less well-known topics, like A24’s “The Final of the Sea Girls,” which premiered final fall on the Toronto Movie Competition. However Kim didn’t come to the Lisa challenge as a Ok-pop novice; she was an government producer on Apple TV+’s docuseries “Ok-Pop Idols.”

A trailer for the movie proven throughout the presentation to business execs included every little thing from live performance footage of Lisa on stage performing her solo music to intimate footage of her with kinfolk. Kim mentioned that at her very first assembly with Lisa, the singer instantly began texting a pal group from her pre-fame days, telling them she wished them to be a part of the documentary.

Mentioned Lisa, in a press release saying the challenge: “This has been such an unimaginable yr and I’m so fortunate to have the chance to seize these particular moments on movie and share the expertise with my followers. Working with Sue Kim has been such a pleasure. We’ve been all all over the world collectively and I do know that is only the start of many extra thrilling issues to come back.”  

“Following Lisa on this transformative and thrilling yr has been a real honor and a cinematic present,” mentioned Kim, within the director’s personal assertion. “There have been so many moments on her journey that I believe will shock folks and provides a glimpse into her world that nobody’s ever seen earlier than. I’m excited for viewers to look at the movie and witness this extraordinary second in her life.”  

The Lisa movie is a manufacturing of Tremolo Productions in affiliation with Salt Water Productions and LLOUD CO. The producers for the doc embrace Morgan Neville and Caitrin Rogers for Tremolo, and Sue Kim and Courtney Crockett for Salt Water Productions. Government producers embrace Alice Kang, Joojong Joe for LLOUD CO.; Peter Edge, John Fleckenstein and Camille Yorrick for RCA Data; and Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener and Abby Davis for Sony Music Imaginative and prescient. The doc might be introduced and distributed by Sony Music Imaginative and prescient in partnership with the RCA Data label.  

It follows the current launch by LLOUD CO./RCA of Lisa’s debut solo album, “Alter Ego.” After all of the members of Blackpink took a yr off to pursue solo efforts, the group is coming again collectively for a brief tour scheduled for this yr, presumably to be adopted by a extra extended reunion.

The singer additionally made her appearing debut in the newest season of “The White Lotus,” which was included within the trailer as one of many topics to be broached within the documentary.

Luhrmann’s presentation of a number of minutes of footage from his “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Live performance” movie — which was described as neither a live performance movie nor a documentary, however clearly is a hybrid of each — served because the climax of the Sony Music Imaginative and prescient upfront, with the filmmaker speaking in regards to the dozens of hours of beforehand unseen footage he sifted by means of. The director mentioned he just lately confirmed a tough minimize of the movie and was inspired by the response of even non-Presley followers to a challenge that features appreciable audio of Presley speaking about his life in addition to on-stage and backstage footage from the ’50s by means of ’70s.

Sony Music Imaginative and prescient has been behind a current streak of high-profile documentaries helmed by status administrators, together with Questlove’s Sly Stone doc, in addition to the corporate’s remastered model of a classic Pink Floyd live performance movie that this spring grew to become its highest grossing big-screen launch.