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    Rep Report for June 5, 2020

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    Damian Horan
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    Independent sales rep Helen O’Brien has reunited with Bonfire partners Peter Corbett and Jason Mayo as she’s been signed to represent the creative studio in the Midwest markets. For seven years, O’Brien was the Midwest rep for Corbett’s previous studio, Click3X. More recently, she was working with Mayo in his prior position at Chimney before he joined Bonfire last fall as partner and managing director. Bonfire specializes in boutique visual effects, color, design and animation services, provided via its proprietary Bonfire Network remote talent network and by its in-house team of artists, creative directors and producers. The company was founded in 2016 by Flame artist Brendan O’Neil. O’Brien will work closely with Mayo, Corbett and Bonfire’s New York-based director of sales, Clare O’Brien, who’s no relation. Bonfire is the latest addition to Helen O’Brien’s representation roster which includes Storefront Music, Residency Content, Mutt Films, Unicorns&Unicorns, StreetFactory Media and Cultivate Media….

    Cinematographers Ronald Richard, CSC and Damian Horan have joined Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation… 

    Globecast, a Paris-headquartered global solutions provider helping customers with content management and delivery, has moved Denis Genevois and Olivier Zankel into new marketing roles. Genevois, who joined Globecast in 2001, is now VP marketing group and Zankel, who joined Globecast in 2011, is now VP communications group. They will both report to Philippe Bernard, CEO, Globecast, with the two also now sitting on the executive committee. They replace Juliet Walker who has moved to take up a role at parent company Orange Business Services. As VP marketing group, Genevois is now overseeing the defining of service strategies and the way that services work with, or alongside, one another as well reporting sales performance. He is also in charge of defining sales strategies by market and region. Since 2018, Genevois has been in charge of marketing and business development for broadcasters handling international pre-sales activity at Globecast. Zankel has been in charge of global communications and operational marketing since 2018. He is now responsible for defining both internal and external communication strategies, setting strategic directives in terms of visibility and messaging….. 

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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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