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    Inspiring The Aspiring: Advice For New Directors

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    (Top row, l-r) Kira Carstensen, Shannon Lords-Houghton, Jesse Dylan. (Bottom row, l-r) Hani Selim, Hal Dantzler, Rebecca Niles, DJay Brawner.

    Production company EPs and executives offer career counsel to filmmakers starting out

    By The SHOOT Staff

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    “Break a leg” is theatrical slang for good luck. But there’s more than luck involved in breaking successfully into the industry and evolving into a working director.

    Each step along the way is a challenge–one we hope to make a little easier through career advice offered by a mix of production house executive producers, managing directors and execs/owners.

    To help foster opportunities for those seeking a meaningful foothold in the industry–and in the spirit of SHOOT’s 19th New Directors Showcase–we invited production company pros to offer career counsel to aspiring filmmakers.

    SHOOT garnered responses to a pair of questions:

    1. What advice do you have for new directors? Include whatever you feel will be helpful; possible topics might include…
      • Tips for getting production co. representation or an agent.
      • Tips for freelance directors on getting an ad agency’s attention.
      • How to obtain financing for a film or TV project.
      • What to put or not put on a reel.
      • How to decide which film festivals to enter.
      • What technology is a “must be proficient in” to succeed today? 
    2. Any tips on how to balance career and personal life?

    Here is the feedback we received:
     

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    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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