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    2018 Producers Advice Survey — Luke Ricci

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    1) Hone your craft by directing as much as possible. Directors need to be out there experimenting with story, technique, and actors. Make interesting short-form pieces of content that pique people’s curiosity. Live an interesting life. Experiment. Fail. Travel. Meet strange people. Get out of your comfort zone. Work with different people. Explore as much of the world that you can so you have stories to tell, and the technical ability to tell them in moving images. Own your career path. Your success is ultimately in your own hands.

    2) Produce anything and everything you can at any budget level. Protect your directors. Give clients excellent service. Say yes. Find ways to make any request happen. Producing is about empowering the creative vision or visions of whomever you’re working for. So figure out how to do that and you’re off to the races. Never ever, ever give up. Be nice to people as much as possible but be mercenary when you need to be. Be fair and honest.

    3) There are innumerable lessons I learn on a daily basis. I would say the greatest lesson that I continually come back to is that you need to constantly evaluate your successes and failures every day. Never stop self-evaluating. Ask the tough questions of yourself and others. Hold yourself to the highest standards.

    4) Bullitt recently produced a project for Stevie Wonder and CAA to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream which I’m incredibly proud of. Candice Vernon directed the project, which achieved 1.1 billion Twitter impressions and 380 million unique views. Link: https://www.dreamstilllives.com/

    Luke Ricci
    President & Executive Producer
    Bullitt



    Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    "Barbenheimer" was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn't stopped people from trying to make "Glicked" — or even "Babyratu" — happen.

    The counterprogramming of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office.

    And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, "Saw Patrol" ).

    This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic "Gladiator II." Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: "Wickiator," "Wadiator," "Gladwick" and even the eyebrow raising "Gladicked" have all been suggested.

    "'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more," actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of "Gladiator II" this week. "I think we should all band around 'Glicked.' It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it."

    As with "Barbenheimer," as reductive as it might seem, "Glicked" also has the male/female divide that make the fan art extra silly. One is pink and bright and awash in sparkles, tulle, Broadway bangers and brand tie-ins; The other is all sweat and sand, blood and bulging... Read More

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