EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Scott Mosier has closed a deal to direct the live-action film Meebo and Me at Warner Bros.
Deadline first informed you that Warners snapped up the comedic household journey spec by Free Man‘s Matt Lieberman in a bidding battle again in April.
In Meebo and Me, a divorced dad goes by means of nice lengths to get his son the recent new toy, an cute robotic. However when the opposite toy robots stand up in opposition to their homeowners, the dad and his faulty robotic got down to save his son and the world whereas constructing a profound friendship alongside the best way. Lieberman’s Free Man was one of many excessive factors for unique motion pictures over the pandemic summer season incomes $121.6M home, $210M WW.
Kenya Barris is producing by means of his Khalabo Ink Society, together with Lieberman and Adam Kolbrenner’s Lit Leisure Group.
Mosier co-directed Illumination’s 2018 animated characteristic The Grinch which made $512.6M WW.
Mosier began his profession as a producer on Kevin Smiths’ Clerks and produced a number of motion pictures for the filmmaker together with Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Lady, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again, Clerks II, and Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Mosier was additionally a Co-EP on the Oscar successful Good Will Searching and wrote and produced the Relativity Media animated characteristic Free Birds which grossed over $110M WW.
He’s repped by CAA, Vary Media Companions and Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo.