Jason Hiro Kim goes solo.
The producer and former supervisor has unveiled Hiro’s Omakase, a brand new indie manufacturing firm eyeing tales throughout Japan, Korea and the U.S. — markets the place the Korean exec, who got here up by the use of Japan and was educated stateside, has spent years constructing bridges.
Kim’s resume features a 10-year-plus run repping expertise at Lovett Administration earlier than making the leap to producing in 2020 alongside Kunal Nayyar. The “Huge Bang Idea” alum introduced Kim aboard to assist run Good Karma Productions, the place he’s overseen artistic for half a decade on each scripted and unscripted fare. Good Karma’s pipeline features a Nayyar-starring sequence being developed with Miramax.
With Kim’s exit, Good Karma is elevating Logan Kovarick from director of improvement to VP. He’ll preserve tabs on the corporate’s rising improvement roster.
Beneath the Hiro’s Omakase banner, Kim plans to remain hooked up to pick out tasks, together with an adaptation of “Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America” by Erika Lee and Judy Yung. He’s additionally backing the Broadway bow of “The Misplaced Boys” and has a stake in an untitled Ketchup Leisure function.
“I’m eternally grateful to Kunal for nearly 20 years of a beautiful working partnership,” Kim mentioned. “As I now focus my consideration on this new enterprise, we are going to proceed to collaborate in significant methods.”
Nayyar added: “Jason has been instrumental in my profession for over the higher a part of 20 years, and it’s with pleasure and admiration that I applaud him on his new enterprise. We are going to proceed to search out tasks to work on sooner or later.”
