Creative editorial house Final Cut has added award-winning editor Antonio Gómez-Pan to its roster for global representation. He will be based out of Final Cut's Los Angeles office.
Antonio Gómez-Pan was born in Madrid and graduated with a BA degree in film editing from the film school ESCAC in Spain. Gómez-Pan has edited advertising projects that have gone on to win gold at Cannes Lions and at the Berlin Film Festival in various categories. He has edited assorted music videos and worked for brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, Amazon, Adidas, Chanel, North Face, Toyota, IKEA, Samsung, and Volkswagen, and has collaborated with agencies including Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sid Lee, McCann, and JWT. Gómez-Pan has teamed with directors such as Elliot Rausch, Albert Uría, Rodrigo Valdes and Cliqua. He recently finished a documentary series for Quibi, &Music, directed by the Los Angeles-based artist, filmmaker, and historian, Calmatic, out of production company PRETTYBIRD.
Gómez-Pan has edited short films that have been selected for Sundance, Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, and have won at the L.A. Film Festival (Mi Amigo Invisible) and the Sitges Film Festival (Elefante), among many others. He is the editor of several award-winning feature films including Othello, which won for Best Independent European Movie of the Year at the Paris Film Festival, and Puzzled Love, an official selection at the San Sebastián Film Festival. He has worked with directors including Jaume Collet-Serra on Hooked Up and Michel Gondry on De Quoi Je Me Mêlle. Gomez-Pan was appointed to the Academy of the Spanish Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2017.
Gómez-Pan joins other recent Final Cut additions including editor Sam Bould and U.S. managing director Justin Brukman. Final Cut has offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles.
Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens
"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