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    Rep Report for April 10, 2015

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    Mary Knox, former managing director of Curious Pictures and Smoke & Mirrors, has launched NY-based Minerva Content, a management consulting and representation firm, with partner Shauna Seresin, long-time head of marketing for Amber Music and former agency and post producer. Named after the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategy, Minerva reflects a new twist on both the repping marketplace for production and post services and the ad agency new business model, as the consulting and rep firm will market its client roster to agencies as well as marketers for direct-to-client assignments. This is particularly the case with its innovative representation agreement with Odysseus Arms in San Francisco, a boutique ad agency that includes Coca-Cola and Ubisoft among its clients. Odysseus Arms was launched in 2011 by former Goodby ECD Franklin Tipton and Mother co-founder Libby Brockoff. Odysseus is presently working on a PSA for ZanaAfrica, a Kenyan NGO, which is a project brought to them by Knox. Also on Minerva’s roster is award-winning editorial company The Assembly Rooms (for which Knox also functions as U.S. executive producer). Owners/editors Nik Hindson and Sam Rice-Edwards headline a roster of 10 editors at The Assembly Rooms which has among its clients such directors as Frederic Planchon, Seb Edwards, Mario Testino and Pleix, and such brands such as Lexus, Adidas, Burberry, Guinness, Volkswagen, Range Rover, and Dove. Minerva is additionally handling SixDay Productions, a nonunion web content company featuring the talents of director/cameraman/editor/producer Thomas Henwood, and Amber Music, the original and licensed music and sound studio founded by Michelle Curran. With the exception of Amber, which Minerva will handle on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Knox and Seresin are representing their roster nationally to both agencies and brands, and they will share consulting assignments. Knox got her start as an ad agency copywriter. She later moved into commercial production as a bicoastal rep. Knox joined Curious Pictures as EP in 2005, launching the company’s live-action division, signing numerous directors, and presiding over animation work that won a 2010 Emmy for title design and multiple One Show Pencils. During this time she served two terms on the board of AICP’s Digital Chapter. Seresin was a producer at Smoke & Mirrors in London before moving to the agency side as a producer at CHI & Partners in 2005. While there she produced for such clients as Toyota, Lexus, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Sunday Times. She has been with Amber since 2010. Minerva is currently undertaking its first consulting assignment and bidding a variety of projects, working in office space in SoHo belonging to animation company Th1ng….

    kaboom productions has secured Catherine De Angelis of indie rep firm Hot Betty to handle the Midwest. The kaboom directorial roster includes Brandon Dickerson, Doug Werby, Erik Moe, Gary Shaffer, Kent Harvey, Michele Atkins, Reynir, and Ricki+Annie….

    Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) has signed cinematographers Peter Wunstorf, ASC, and Thomas Scott Stanton for representation. Wunstorf’s credits include the Roger Spottiswoode-directed Midnight Son while Stanton lensed director Matt Sobel’s Take Me To The River, which was screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival….

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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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