HARBOR has grown its visual effects and finishing service by bringing on board lead VFX artists Terry Silberman and Matt Motal and their longstanding producing partner Pravina Sippy. Silberman has decades of experience handling complex and tight turnaround VFX projects for a slate of brand name clients including Lexus, Mazda, Asics, Redbull, Beats and Toyota, and he joins HARBOR after his recent tenure as partner at Arsenal Creative and founding partner of Apache Digital. Motal has built an impressive reputation for his skill and approach over the past 15 years, after holding senior positions with Arsenal Creative, Mirada Studios, 1.1 VFX and Motion Theory. Sippy joins HARBOR as executive producer, commercial VFX and finishing, LA. Sippy’s 11+ year career has seen her partner with brands including GM, State Farm, Toyota, NFL and Kia. Sippy has also collaborated across genres working on music videos for Dr. Dre and Muse, and short films including one for Canon directed Bryce Dallas Howard. Most recently, Sippy oversaw Arsenal Creative’s color department. HARBOR maintains NY, L.A., and U.K. studios….
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