Arcade Edit has brought Nicole Visram on board as executive producer. She previously served in the same capacity for seven years at Cutters. Her experience spans TV, film, TV commercials and news media.
British-born Visram began her career as a producer with the BBC in London before moving to the U.S. to work in commercial production. It was the role of producer for The Three Tenors that traced her path to Los Angeles. Visram then chose to take a role with director Tony Kaye–who was working on American History X at the time–producing for his company TONY K, working on commercials for brands including IBM, Volvo and MasterCard.
She later became a sr. producer with Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, producing spots for such clients as Motorola, IBM, Mattel and the Anaheim Angels baseball team.
Recently Visram was an associate producer on the short film entitled The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Supply & Demand Integrated. Tsunami earned an Oscar nomination this year in the Documentary Short Subject category. The short was edited by Aki Mizutani, Visram’s colleague at Cutters.
Some of Visram’s other notable achievements include serving as a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary film, Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, as well as the 2001 film Bad Actors, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Visram was the creative lead and producer of Jared Leto’s band 30 Seconds to Mars–a tribute to Japan’s relief for the tsunami disaster.
Arcade Edit is an editorial collective and partnership between managing partner Damian Stevens and editors/partners Kim Bica, Geoff Hounsell, and Paul Martinez. Arcade’s roster of talent also includes editors Christjan Jordan and Greg Scruton. Alongside Arcade, the partners have also launched Airship, an integrated creative arm specializing in online, graphics, design, and visual effects headed by directors/artists Chris Homel and Matthew Lydecker.
“Mickey 17” Tops Weekend Box Office, But Profitability Is A Long Way Off
"Parasite" filmmaker Bong Joon Ho's original science fiction film "Mickey 17" opened in first place on the North American box office charts. According to studio estimates Sunday, the Robert Pattinson-led film earned $19.1 million in its first weekend in theaters, which was enough to dethrone "Captain America: Brave New World" after a three-week reign.
Overseas, "Mickey 17" has already made $34.2 million, bringing its worldwide total to $53.3 million. But profitability for the film is a long way off: It cost a reported $118 million to produce, which does not account for millions spent on marketing and promotion.
A week following the Oscars, where "Anora" filmmaker Sean Baker made an impassioned speech about the importance of the theatrical experience – for filmmakers to keep making movies for the big screens, for distributors to focus on theatrical releases and for audiences to keep going – "Mickey 17" is perhaps the perfect representation of this moment in the business, or at least an interesting case study. It's an original film from an Oscar-winning director led by a big star that was afforded a blockbuster budget and given a robust theatrical release by Warner Bros., one of the few major studios remaining. But despite all of that, and reviews that were mostly positive (79% on RottenTomatoes), audiences did not treat it as an event movie, and it may ultimately struggle to break even.
Originally set for release in March 2024, Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Parasite" faced several delays, which he has attributed to extenuating circumstances around the Hollywood strikes. Based on the novel "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton, Pattinson plays an expendable employee who dies on missions and is re-printed time and time again. Steven... Read More