[2] Critical response [ edit] Director Damien Chazelle at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. But Hollywood passed because many producers just had a hard time seeing Chazelle's vision. STOWELL plays a wounded Marine, whose quest for his own rehabilitation and his strong bond with his young cousin, serves as the inspiration for building a prosthetic tail that saves the dolphin's life. This brings us back to the last section, you need to decide what . ", "'WHIPLASH' careens into the unexpected before coming to a jaw-dropping close. This winter, JK will start shooting NBC's new comedy "Growing Up Fisher" opposite Jenna Elfman. While Big Hero 6 wasn't the only new release on the Blu-ray sales chart this week, it might as well have been. In 2016, Sundance received 9000 short film submissions (compared to 4000 feature films) and only about 60 were selected to screen. Anchored by extraordinary performances from Miles Teller and J.K. SimmonsSimmons absolutely dominates every frame of the picture. With 93% of the Best Picture vote going to Birdman and Boyhood, the remaining nominees were left to split the other 7% of the vote. They are currently shooting Reitman's next film, which he wrote with Erin Cressida Wilson. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. For example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. In addition to executive producing the feature length film, Samuelson produced the short film Whiplash that won the US Jury Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2012, Brill joined Blumhouse Productions as Head of Production. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits. Blumhouse also produced the phenomenally successful sequels Paranormal Activity 2, Paranormal Activity 3 and Paranormal Activity 4. There are two first-run releases that are contenders for Pick of the Week: Big Hero 6 (DVD or Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Whiplash (DVD or Blu-ray). Like the Best Supporting Actress category, Best Supporting Actor isn't even close and one of the five nominees is absolutely running away with things. Simmons' latest films include The Words, The Music Never Stopped, Jennifer's Body, Extract, The Vicious Kind, I Love You Man, Beginner's Guide to Endings, Contraband and the Academy Award-nominated Up in the Air. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. The vampire actioner won the day on Friday, but couldnt maintain its pace, with $8.7 million on Saturday, against Gone Girls $11.3 million. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; and Stretch for Universal. The Oscar nominations were announced early in the morning, when all sensible people were asleep. It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer and an abusive bandleader. Suddenly, financing no longer was an issue for a feature; independent finance company Bold Films (which did Nightcrawler) stepped up with $3.3 million for the full-length film's budget. More Once more, entrants in The Numbers Predict the Academy Awards Contest did an impressive job of predicting winners, in spite of a volatile Awards Season. "[35], The film appeared on many critics end-of-year lists. This list is going to be a little shorter than I wanted a lot shorter actually. Andrew quickly discovers that Fletcher is relentlessly strict, emotionally manipulative, and abusive to his students; he slaps and berates Andrew when he fails to keep tempo during the ensemble's rehearsal of Hank Levy's titular piece, "Whiplash.". For Halloween 2012, Blumhouse built The Blumhouse of Horrors, an innovative and frightening haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Aspiring directors use this medium to create a proof of concept on a small budget that can go on to w This could be a really dull Awards Season with very few surprises. After what he thought was a disastrous audition, Miles was thrilled that NYU did accept him. The Oscar ceremony is tonight and we will be live-blogging the winners assuming I don't get bored and wander away. In addition to his academic achievements, Walters also has the rare distinction of being a winner on JEOPARDY. Even Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead started out as a 1978 low-budget 32-minute film, Within 7he Woods, starring Bruce Campbell, that influenced the full feature. While attending Princeton High School, writer-director Damien Chazelle was in the "very competitive" Studio Band and drew on the dread he felt in those years. With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. Like gunfire INT. After directing the super low budget "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" in 2009, . The film featured Simmons as the jazz band conductor still, but it had Johnny Simmons . In December 2015, the score received a Grammy nomination, and the film was nominated for the NME Award for Best Film. Second place went to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, with an average of $13,725 during its sophomore stint. The short won the short film jury prize at Sundance 2013 and independent finance company Bold Films, which also backed Nightcrawler, came on board to provide the full $3.2m budget for a Whiplash . VOTD: Side-By-Side Comparison Of 'Whiplash' And The Short Film That He most recently finished shooting the independent film WHIPLASH opposite Miles Teller and JK Simmons. [6] Chazelle said he wrote the film "initially in frustration" while trying to get his musical La La Land off the ground. Whiplash (2014 film) - Wikipedia Astounding. She met Jason Blum when she was hired to help cast the wildly successful Paranormal Activity 2. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive 5 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. A journey that can be seen alternately as a descent into madness or an ascent to greatness comes to a crescendo on the biggest platform for Andrew's talents the unforgiving stage of Carnegie Hall. Michel Litvak (Producer) is a Belgian industrialist who founded the independent production and finance company Bold Films in 2004. Her diverse body of work includes commercials for companies like Disney, Toshiba, and Capital One as well as art directing for Annie Leibovitz's Vanity Fair magazine photoshoots, featuring Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars. Damien Chazelle's short film that became 'Whiplash' appears online - watch In this tragic family drama, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, Miles played 'Jason Willette,' a bit of a loner teen who escapes into a world of comic books and science fiction. Since Whiplash debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, . Spielberg then hired her to be his US Casting Consultant on the Oscar nominated film, Munich. Compare this performance with other movies. 'Whiplash': An Example of Brilliant Writing, Directing, and Editing Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, and others continue to get accolades, but there are also some films that are being passed over too often. Blum's credits also include: The Tooth Fairy, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, The Reader, for which Kate Winslet won an Academy Award; Hysterical Blindness, starring Uma Thurman, which aired on HBO and garnered Thurman a Golden Globe Award; and Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke, Bill Murray, Sam Shepard and Kyle MacLachlan. Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead is a horror film, which is one strike against it, while it is also playing on Video on Demand. They've ranged from big studio releases to surprise gems from the independent film world. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from high school and auditioned for Julliard and New York University. Terence Fletcher, the conductor of the Shaffer Conservatory Studio Band, recruits him to play in the Studio ensemble as an alternate for core drummer Carl Tanner. He began his career as an assistant in CAA's motion picture department. Paul Reiser and his family currently reside in Los Angeles. Other films include the 2008 Toronto Film Festival Official Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, with Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin, the sci-fi thriller STARSHIP TROOPERS 3, the acclaimed drama COME EARLY MORNING, featuring the powerful performance of Ashley Judd, and the Official Selection of both the 2009 Toronto and Venice International Film Festivals THE HOLE from GREMLINS director Joe Dante that won the first ever Primo Persol Award in Venice. With a full slate of films and television to be released in the next 9 months, David Lancaster launched RUMBLE FILMS in June of 2014 after serving as co-president of Bold Films from 2006 through March 2014. If I predicted a different film, those are in Italics. Enraged, Andrew attacks Fletcher onstage but is pulled away by security and expelled from Shaffer. By way of comparison, Gone Girl opened with $37.5 million three weeks ago. More What was largely expected to be a fairly comfortable win for Gone Girl this weekend turned out to be a bit of a squeaker, thanks to a better-than-expected $23.46 million estimated opening for Dracula Untold. Initially angered, Fletcher resumes conducting. Making of 'Whiplash': How a 20-Something Shot His Harrowing Script in Whiplash J.K. Simmons - H 2014. In addition to editing the feature . "A work of bravura filmmaking. Marketing and promotion. His work also encompasses television where he has created the quirky and stylized pilots for "Suburgatory" and "Raising Hope" plus the gritty dramas "Men of a Certain Age" and "Medical Investigation". Taylor has been married for 18 years to Gregg Taylor, the Head of Development for Dreamworks Animation. Whiplash 2013 TV-14 18 m IMDb RATING 7.8 /10 5.7K YOUR RATING Rate Short Drama Music A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. Blum began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte theater company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke. The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. "Nice weatherwe play baseball all year round.". From the producers of THE BLIND SIDE, this inspirational true story follows a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to fight for her survival. Mr. Turner was the best of the new limited releases earning an average of $21,728 in five theaters. The Imitation Game remained in first place on the per theater chart with an average of $48,658 in 8 theaters over the weekend. More We are still waiting for the DGA nominations to be announced, but we had the first major awards show on Sunday. Andrew invites Nicole to the performance but finds out she is in a new relationship. During his sophomore year he and his best friend auditioned for Footloose because "the Drama Club Counselor was really pretty." Taylor first met Chazelle when producer Jason Blum introduced them on the short-film version of Whiplash. In 2012, he starred opposite Liam Hemsworth in LOVE AND HONOR, winning the lead role over Hollywood's most in-demand young actors. The majority of films average about five pages, and a low-budgets can plan to shoot as many as ten. Miles was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and during those formative years he developed a love of sports and has remained a die-hard Phillies and Eagles fan. A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. His feature-length script for Whiplash was finished, it was good, and it was making its way through the Hollywood producer circuit to the tunes of positive buzz. The Screen Actors Guild winners were announced Sunday and there were some surprises, mostly in the negative. Prior to that, he worked at the production company 2929, where he co-produced two films that were nominated for Cannes' Palme d'Or, We Own The Night and Two Lovers. Projections for today have it potentially falling into third place behind Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on Sunday, which doesnt bode well for its legs long-term. His third book, Familyhood, hit the shelves in 2011. He was most recently seen in Relativity's 21 And Over, Todd Phillips Project X, The Spectacular Now with Shailene Woodley and recently wrapped production on Get A Job opposite Bryan Cranston and Anna Kendrick, Two Night Stand with Analeigh Tipton and Kid Cudi and That Awkward Moment with Zac Efron and Michael B. Jordan. However, it was a Wednesday release and it earned $13,145 over five days. Litvak continues to broaden and elevate the company's lineup by producing and financing feature projects NIGHTCRAWLER, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo, THE COUP starring Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan, and WHIPLASH from emerging writer-director Damien Chazelle. Watch: How 'Whiplash' the Short Led to 'Whiplash' the - No Film School Couper Samuleson (Executive Producer) is the executive vice president of Blumhouse Productions, the low-budget production company behind original horror franchises like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Purge. "[30] Whiplash also won the 87th Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and the 87th Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Since Tanner cannot play without the sheets, Andrew replaces him for the next set. As the piece finishes, Andrew continues into an extended, unexpected solo. Cross then collaborated with director Damien Chazelle on the short film, WHIPLASH, which won the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Foxcatcher was the latest Oscar-hopeful to top the per theater chart earning an average of $45,146 in six theaters. This is the second best per theater average of the year, behind only The Grand Budapest Hotel. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. Finally, P.K. The other contender is the Criterion Collection release for Watership Down (Blu-ray). [11] The feature-length film was financed for $3.3 million by Bold Films. As noted, though, favorite is strong, given the closeness of this category, with Linklater getting 55% of the votes and Inarritu taking a 46% share. I want to see a monster, a gargoyle, an animal." The film was was nominated at the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards and was released theatrically in 2010. This site may be governed by it's ownTerms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Like with Best Director, this is a two-horse race with the same two films at the top of the list. STOWELL was most recently seen in Steven Soderbergh's BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, the award-winning HBO film based on the life of celebrated pianist Liberace, played by Michael Douglas. The film received widespread critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, film editing, sound mixing, and Teller's and Simmons' performances, and grossed $49 million on a $3.3 million budget, making it Chazelle's highest grossing feature until the release of La La Land (2016). The best new release of the week was Wild with an average of $28,896 in 21 theaters. Chazelle said that between takes, Simmons was "as sweet as can be", which he credits for keeping "the shoot from being nightmarish". More With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. I enjoyed the editing too and find it very pleasant to watch. The film follows the ambitious music student and jazz drummer Andrew Neiman (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor Terence Fletcher (Simmons) at the fictitious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. Before it was a best picture nominee, Damien Chazelle 's Whiplash started as a short . As for the Independent Spirit Awards nominations, Birdman led the way with 6 nods, while Boyhood, Nightcrawler, and Selma were right behind with 5 each. In fact, it was a comedy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, that earned the most nominations at 11. Because of his single-mindedness toward music, Andrew's relationship with his family deteriorates, and he breaks up with his girlfriend, Nicole, to focus on his ambitions. Released in 2007, Paranormal Activity made $193.4 million back from a production budget of $15,000 and spawned dozens of found footage clones, none of which made anything like the $889.7 million . The Golden Globes winners were announced Sunday night and while there were not a lot of surprises, there are some things worth talking about. Birdman led the way with 3 wins, but it wasn't the only film to come away with more than one award. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; . in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1993 and cut his teeth in commercial editing in NYC. She guest starred on "Blue Bloods," "The Good Wife" and "Law & Order SVU" SVU before her arc on Showtime's critically acclaimed series "Homeland." theaters, 9.6 weeks average run per theater, Sound Re-recording Mixer / Supervising Sound Editor. Sharone has also photographed commercials all around the world and enjoyed shooting music videos for such diverse artists as Joe Cocker, Pink, Nas and The All-American Rejects. Think About This Paul Thomas Anderson's breakthrough short film was 24 minutes, George Lucas' 15 minutes, Tim Burton's 30 minutes, Wes Anderson's 14 minutes and Jason Reitman's 17 minutes. Director Damien Chazelle Writer Damien Chazelle Stars Johnny Simmons Nate Lang J.K. Simmons See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 11 User reviews 4 Critic reviews Awards The overall box office champ, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, earned an average of $14,122, which is lower than anticipated, but still pretty good. and they suggested making the short as a device to generate a budget for the feature, which obviously worked out great. Andrew's maniacal effort to achieve perfection is further fueled by Fletcher's psychological brinksmanship. Jason Reitman and Blumhouse are producing. The Ultimate Film Budgeting Guide [FREE Film Budget Template] Besides those two films, there are not a lot of surprises here and the usual contenders are present, including Boyhood and The Imitation Game, but there are also some other notable films missing. Yes. The Grand Budapest Hotel took home five awards, while Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash earned three each. The actual drummer was Bernie Dresel. Last year, Taylor cast the critically acclaimed Hitchcock, directed by Sasha Gervasi. [20] The soundtrack consists of 24 tracks divided in three different parts: original jazz pieces written for the film, original underscore parts written for the film, and classic jazz standards written by Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, and other musicians. The Golden Globes nominations were announced this morning, at three in the morning, because the people at Golden Globes are under the delusion that news announced at 3:00 a.m. is somehow more important if it is announced before anyone is awake. Script to Screen: Whiplash - Carsey-Wolf Center Jason Blum (Producer) is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, a multi-media production company that has pioneered a new model of studio filmmaking producing high-quality micro-budget films for wide release. Benoist got her start in the independent film Tennessee. She produced of the World Festival of Sacred Music documentaries, which were inspired and hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For March 2015 THE COUP, which stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell will be released by The Weinstein Company. Granted, Birdman and The Theory of Everything were tied for second place with ten each, but it is still strange to see a comedy leading the way. Unfortunately, two of these films will likely not do well in theaters. In 2011, Reitman reteamed with Diablo Cody for the critically acclaimed Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt. Its opening week Blu-ray share was 67%, which is stunning. For one, the relationship between Andrew and his father was introduced early on in the film but was never really developed or resolved. 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After a successful performance of "Whiplash," Fletcher promotes Andrew to the core drummer. Is the Oscar picture beginning to take shape? ", "In its feverish tempo, 'WHIPLASH' moves like a thriller as meticulously precise, and as thrillingly volatile, as the music it celebrates.
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