Exclusive: Lighthouse Management + Media has signed buzzy writer-director Laura Kosann for representation in all areas.
A fast-rising star, Kosann was a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow and has had three features on The Black List in the last two years.
Currently, she is scripting Sony’s English-language remake of Hi, Mom, the Chinese film from director Jia Ling which, before Barbie, was the highest-grossing pic helmed by a solo female director. Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Becky Sanderman will produce alongside Wenxin She (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood).
Previously, Kosann adapted the comic book Mercy Sparx for MGM, with The Picture Company producing. She’s rewriting the live-action musical Santa Is Real, which Stephen Chbosky (Dear Evan Hansen) is set to direct for Amazon and Shiny Penny Productions, and is also working on a horror project for a streamer that is currently under wraps. Additionally, her Black Listed sci-fi thriller script,...
A fast-rising star, Kosann was a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow and has had three features on The Black List in the last two years.
Currently, she is scripting Sony’s English-language remake of Hi, Mom, the Chinese film from director Jia Ling which, before Barbie, was the highest-grossing pic helmed by a solo female director. Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Becky Sanderman will produce alongside Wenxin She (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood).
Previously, Kosann adapted the comic book Mercy Sparx for MGM, with The Picture Company producing. She’s rewriting the live-action musical Santa Is Real, which Stephen Chbosky (Dear Evan Hansen) is set to direct for Amazon and Shiny Penny Productions, and is also working on a horror project for a streamer that is currently under wraps. Additionally, her Black Listed sci-fi thriller script,...
- 12/7/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Get ready to say “Hi Mom.”
Sony Pictures has acquired the English language remake rights to the Chinese dramedy directed by Jia Ling. It is one of the highest grossing local films in history, making almost $850 million at the box office when it was released in 2021. The film, which was also written by Ling, became the top-grossing film ever from a solo female director, a feat only recently succeeded by Greta Gerwig and “Barbie.”
The original movie is set in 2001, when a young woman’s mother dies in a car accident. Grief-stricken, she travels back to 1981. Fearing that she had been a bad daughter, she looks to make her mom’s life as happy as it can be, including setting her up with a local factory manager’s son. It sounds very sweet.
In early development, Laura Kosann is adapting the screenplay. Kosann is a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow and has...
Sony Pictures has acquired the English language remake rights to the Chinese dramedy directed by Jia Ling. It is one of the highest grossing local films in history, making almost $850 million at the box office when it was released in 2021. The film, which was also written by Ling, became the top-grossing film ever from a solo female director, a feat only recently succeeded by Greta Gerwig and “Barbie.”
The original movie is set in 2001, when a young woman’s mother dies in a car accident. Grief-stricken, she travels back to 1981. Fearing that she had been a bad daughter, she looks to make her mom’s life as happy as it can be, including setting her up with a local factory manager’s son. It sounds very sweet.
In early development, Laura Kosann is adapting the screenplay. Kosann is a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow and has...
- 10/19/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Exclusive: 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow scribe Laura Kosann has been hired to adapt the female-driven comic book Mercy Sparx for MGM, The Picture Company and Assemble Media.
Created by Josh Blaylock, the title protag is a female demon sent from Hell to Earth on a mission, which she must complete while hiding among humans. On Earth, Mercy has an existential crisis and begins to see the gray area between good and evil. It forces her to choose her place within it and compromises her mission. The comic debuted ten years ago via Devil’s Due Publishing, and the IP has been seen by the studio as a franchise with an empowering female character at the center.
Jack Heller of Assemble is producing along with The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona. Comic creator Blaylock is serving as EP along with Assemble’s Scott Veltri. Heller and Assemble developed the script...
Created by Josh Blaylock, the title protag is a female demon sent from Hell to Earth on a mission, which she must complete while hiding among humans. On Earth, Mercy has an existential crisis and begins to see the gray area between good and evil. It forces her to choose her place within it and compromises her mission. The comic debuted ten years ago via Devil’s Due Publishing, and the IP has been seen by the studio as a franchise with an empowering female character at the center.
Jack Heller of Assemble is producing along with The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona. Comic creator Blaylock is serving as EP along with Assemble’s Scott Veltri. Heller and Assemble developed the script...
- 4/7/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Masarof debut feature film First Love has been acquired by Indie Rights. The independent film distributor will release the film theatrically in Los Angeles as well as digital/VOD platforms on December 13.
Written and directed by Masarof, the drama stars Annie Heise and Aaron Costa Ganis as estranged twins. She is a Hollywood actress and is hiding out in a seaside hotel after suffering from a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, her slacker twin brother must make a choice: save his troubled sister from herself or sell his explosive tell-all book and sacrifice their twin bond for good. The film also includes Arye Gross, Adam Huber, Mia Barron, Amin El Gamal and Malin Barr.
Comedy Dynamics has acquired the Laura Kosann-directed The Social Ones, a mockumentary...
Written and directed by Masarof, the drama stars Annie Heise and Aaron Costa Ganis as estranged twins. She is a Hollywood actress and is hiding out in a seaside hotel after suffering from a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, her slacker twin brother must make a choice: save his troubled sister from herself or sell his explosive tell-all book and sacrifice their twin bond for good. The film also includes Arye Gross, Adam Huber, Mia Barron, Amin El Gamal and Malin Barr.
Comedy Dynamics has acquired the Laura Kosann-directed The Social Ones, a mockumentary...
- 10/31/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In the first trailer for the social media influencer send-up The Social Ones starts with influencers sitting in a circle in what looks like a support meeting as the words, “Everyone has forgotten the truth that we are humans not handles” flashes on the screen. This mockumentary from writer/director Laura Kosann is the perfect remedy to the onslaught of likes, retweets, Insta-fame that has been furiously raining down on culture for the past decade.
Premiering at the 2019 Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival this March in Silicon Valley, The Social Ones is basically a skewering answer to Netflix’s documentary The American Meme. Starring Richard Kind, Stephanie March (Law & Order Svu), Jackie Hoffman (Feud), Debra Jo Rupp (That ’70s Show), and Peter Scolari (Girls), the mockumentary is a parody that highlights the pitfalls of the emerging takeover of social media in our everyday lives,...
Premiering at the 2019 Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival this March in Silicon Valley, The Social Ones is basically a skewering answer to Netflix’s documentary The American Meme. Starring Richard Kind, Stephanie March (Law & Order Svu), Jackie Hoffman (Feud), Debra Jo Rupp (That ’70s Show), and Peter Scolari (Girls), the mockumentary is a parody that highlights the pitfalls of the emerging takeover of social media in our everyday lives,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Richard Kind, Stephanie March (Law & Order Svu), Jackie Hoffman (Feud) are attached to star in The Social Ones, the first long-form content film from The New Potato Studios. Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show) and Peter Scolari (Girls) will also co-star in the indie written and directed by Laura Kosann.
The pic is a mockumentary parodying social media and how it is taking over our society. The piece sets out to highlight the pitfalls of the emerging takeover of social media in our everyday lives, poking fun at how hilariously seriously people take it and society’s unhealthy fascination with “social media influencers.”
Production will begin next month in New York City.
New Potato Studios founding sisters Laura and Danielle Kosann, who named the company after their lifestyle website, will serve as executive producers along with March.
The pic is a mockumentary parodying social media and how it is taking over our society. The piece sets out to highlight the pitfalls of the emerging takeover of social media in our everyday lives, poking fun at how hilariously seriously people take it and society’s unhealthy fascination with “social media influencers.”
Production will begin next month in New York City.
New Potato Studios founding sisters Laura and Danielle Kosann, who named the company after their lifestyle website, will serve as executive producers along with March.
- 5/30/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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