Full service postproduction services provider Periscope Post & Audio, Hollywood and Chicago, has brought Michael Sable on board as director of business development. Sable will seek to extend Periscope’s reach in independent, studio and streaming features, and work to secure projects for both the Hollywood and Chicago facilities. He has worked in postproduction sales for more than 20 years, primarily marketing sound services for film and television. He began his career with Encore Video and held senior sales roles at Mix Magic and Mercury Sound. He has a long track record of assisting independent filmmakers finish their movies. Periscope is seeing its workload rise as television and film production rebounds from the pandemic. Projects recently completed at its Hollywood facility include Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Love, Victor for Hulu, Twenties and The Ms. Pat Show for BET, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Patrick Star Show and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years for Nickelodeon, Borat’s American Lockdown and Debunking Borat for Amazon and The Unicorn for CBS. The company’s Chicago facility has handled post for the AMC series 61st Street, Showtime’s Work in Progress and Fox’s The Big Leap….
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