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Lee Sung Jin is additional cementing his place at Netflix. The Beef creator has launched a brand new manufacturing firm, LILA Footage, beneath his renewed multi-year cope with the streamer, and it comes with two new collection in improvement: a restricted drama starring Ali Wong referred to as The Solely Baby and a drama collection from Beef alum Gene Hong titled Citizen’s Arrest.
Netflix and Lee introduced the brand new firm on Wednesday. Lee first signed an total cope with Netflix again in 2023, and his renewed partnership will see him proceed to create scripted collection and have movies solely for the streamer.
LILA Footage (pronounced LEE-lah) takes its identify from a Sanskrit phrase that means “divine play.” The corporate will develop authentic movie and TV tasks for Lee to create, govt produce, write, and direct, whereas additionally backing up-and-coming artistic voices. Hyunji Ward, who started her profession at UTA and spent the previous 4 years at Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime Footage, joins as SVP of Movie & Tv.
Right here’s what Lee needed to say concerning the launch:
I’m excited to launch LILA PICTURES with the help of my artistic residence at Netflix and the assistance of Hyunji Ward, our new SVP of Movie and TV. In Sanskrit, lila could be interpreted as ‘the divine play,’ and I’m grateful to replicate that by movie and tv, alongside shut buddies and collaborators like Ali Wong and Gene Hong. That is only the start. There may also be merch.
What are The Solely Baby and Citizen’s Arrest about?
The Solely Baby is a restricted drama collection that reunites Lee with Ali Wong, who will produce and star. Wong will play the mom of an expert archer making ready to compete for her first gold medal. Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Ava Wong Davies (Business) can also be hooked up.
The collection marks Wong’s return to tv following her Emmy-winning flip reverse Steven Yeun within the first season of Beef.
Citizen’s Arrest is a brand new drama collection created by Gene Hong, a author on Beef. It follows two longtime buddies and neighbors whose obsession with fixing a neighborhood crime turns into an escape from the non-public crises neither of them is able to face.
Each tasks are in improvement, so neither has a launch date or extra casting at this stage.
The place does this depart Beef?
At this time’s announcement doesn’t point out a 3rd season of Beef, which is hardly shocking given the present’s combined fortunes in its second outing.
Awards voters nonetheless adore it. The second season led all restricted or anthology collection with 16 nominations on the 2026 Emmys, taking the present to 29 nominations and 11 wins throughout its two installments. Audiences had been tougher to win again, although. As we reported on the time, Season 2 opened with 2.4M views, a 58% drop from Season 1’s 5.8M, and its two-week whole of 6.5M was properly behind the 17.8M Season 1 had reached on the identical level.
That didn’t put Lee’s future with Netflix unsure. On the Q1 earnings name, co-CEO Ted Sarandos indicated that Lee can be making tasks for Netflix for years to come back, and LILA Footage is additional proof of that dedication.
Lee’s different latest work contains co-writing Marvel’s X-Males with Joanna Calo, reuniting him with director Jake Schreier, and govt producing Alex Russell’s Lurker.
We’ll hold you posted as The Solely Baby and Citizen’s Arrest progress. Are you excited to see Ali Wong again on Netflix in one other Lee Sung Jin collaboration? Tell us within the feedback beneath.
