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    Editor’s Note: Coming Monday, October 30–SHOOT’s Fall Directors Series >e.dition

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    SHOOT will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, October 30, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s October/November print issue (including extended versions of some stories).

    The mix of profiles includes several filmmakers whose work has entered this season’s Oscar conversation, including Sean Baker for The Florida Project, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for Battle of the Sexes, Stephen Frears for Victoria & Abdul, Craig Gillespie for I, Tonya, Todd Haynes for Wonderstruck, Reginald Hudlin for Marshall and Dee Rees for Mudbound. 

    Within this group, there are strong ties to commercialmaking. Gillespie, who’s with MJZ for commercials and branded content, is a DGA Award winner (and four-time nominee) for Best Commercial Director of the Year. The Dayton/Faris duo, which made its first feature splash with the lauded Little Miss Sunshine, has enjoyed ad biz success during a long, ongoing tenure at production house Bob Industries. Haynes is repped in the spot/branded content arena by Moxie Pictures. And last year Baker earned a Tribeca X Award nomination, a competition that celebrates branded storytelling, for the short film Snowbird starring Abbey Lee, part of a fashion campaign for KENZO.

    Also in the SHOOT Series lineup of profiles are Miles Jay of Smuggler, who recently won the primetime commercial Emmy Award for Squarespace’s “Calling JohnMalkovich.com” out of agency John X Hannes; and Damian Kulash who’s breaking new branded ground at Park Pictures. 

    The lead singer, guitarist and founder of rock band OK Go, Kulash has successfully extended his reach into filmmaking over the years as most recently reflected in Morton Salt’s “The One Moment which has won assorted accolades including six Cannes Lions this year along with a Wood Pencil at the D&ADs, and an AICP Show honor for Best Production. The Cannes bounty consisted of a Gold Digital Craft Lion, a Gold Design Lion, a Silver Film Craft Lion, a Bronze Film Craft Lion, a Bronze Film Lion in Viral, and a Bronze PR Lion. “The One Moment” came out of agency Ogilvy.

    Meanwhile our ensemble of up-and-coming talent consists of: a noted actress who’s making her directorial debut with an upcoming HBO documentary; a music video/spot/short film helmer who’s gotten his first meaningful taste of long-form fare via a Netflix TV series he co-created; a still photographer who has successfully diversified into moving imagery, directing spots, shorts and branded fare on both sides of the Atlantic; a filmmaker who brings agency creative chops and BBC production experience to her first production company affiliation in the U.S.; and a director at one with nature, adept at the deployment of drones, and who made a major mark with a short film that scored on the festival circuit.

    And then in our Cinematographers & Cameras Series, we meet three DPs—one who has lensed eight Sundance Film Festival premieres in the past seven years; another who’s in pre-pro on his sixth feature for the same noted director, the last release being a Disney live-action film that sprung from the beloved animation classic Beauty and the Beast; and a lenser who too enjoyed a recent return engagement with a director/writer for whom he previously collaborated with in both the feature and TV series worlds.

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    Tags:Craig GillespieDamian KulashDee ReesDirectors SeriesStephen Frears



    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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