Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; . Are there surprises worth mentioning? Blumhouse executive produced 'The River' for ABC, 'Stranded' for SyFy, 'The Normal Heart' directed by Ryan Murphy for HBO and 'Eye Candy' starring Victoria Justice for MTV. ", "Making of 'Whiplash': How a 20-Something Shot His Harrowing Script in Just 19 Days", "How Miles Teller learned to fake drum like a pro in 'Whiplash', "Talking animals with Zootopia's Creative Minds", "Listen to a Bonus Track from New Expanded "Whiplash" Soundtrack Album", "Weekend Report: 'Dumb' Sequel Takes First Ahead of 'Big Hero 6,' 'Interstellar', "Forecast: Bombs Away for 'Mortdecai,' 'Strange Magic', "J. K. Simmons on Playing a 'Real' Villain in, "Whiplash: Sundance 2014 first look review", "Best of 2014: Film Critic Top Ten Lists", "The 2014 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll", "Sundance 2014 winners: 'Whiplash' wins big", "Oscar surprise: 'Whiplash' deemed an adapted screenplay by Academy", "Academy & WGA At Odds Over 'Whiplash' Screenplay; Will It Hurt Oscar Chances? Finally there's Whiplash, which could lead the way on the Per Theater Chart. 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. Our biggest misses were actually in the biggest categories: Best Picture was won by Birdman, not Boyhood; Alejandro Inarritu beat Richard Linklater for Best Director; and Big Hero 6 prevailed over How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Watch the Short Film That Would Become 'Whiplash' [6] He based the conductor, Terence Fletcher, on his former band instructor (who died in 2003) but "pushed it further", adding elements of Buddy Rich and other band leaders known for their harsh treatment. He next directed Juno in 2007 for which he earned his first Oscar nomination, followed by Up in the Air in 2009, which was recognized with six Academy Award nominations and earned Reitman a Golden Globe and the WGA Award for Best Screenplay. Foxcatcher earned an average of $19,764 in 24 theaters. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. For Halloween 2012, Blumhouse built The Blumhouse of Horrors, an innovative and frightening haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. [31], Amber Wilkinson of The Daily Telegraph praised the direction and editing, writing: "Chazelle's film has a sharp and gripping rhythm, with shots beautifully edited by Tom Cross often cutting to the crash of Andrew's drums. Most recently, JK filmed Jeremy Sisto's feature Breakpoint. She went onto cast each installment of the series thereafter; as well as the Blum-produced upcoming film, Curve, directed by Iain Softley (Wings of the Dove, K-Pax). For a family film, it is hard to comprehend. Whiplash is a 2013 American drama short film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. Tom Cross (Editor) is an editor of feature films, documentaries and television. Emboldened by this acceptance, Andrew summons the courage to ask out Nicole, the counter girl at his local theater for whom he'd nursed a silent and unrequited crush. There were some surprises, as well as some results that would have been surprises had it not been for the previous Awards Season nominations. The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. He previously worked at Paramount, where he produced that studio's upcoming micro budget comedy Drunk Weddings.
The Ultimate Film Budgeting Guide [FREE Film Budget Template] 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. ", Simmons has appeared on the Broadway stage in performances of "Guys and Dolls," "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," "A Change in the Heir," "Peter Pan" and "A Few Good Men.". "[25] On Metacritic the film has a score of 88 out of 100, based on reviews from 49 critics, indicating "universal acclaim. Is the Oscar picture beginning to take shape? New releases earned the top three spots on the DVD sales chart this week. The project is written and directed by Damien Chazelle who also wrote and directed Nate in the 2013 Sundance Jury Prize Award winning short film by the same name. I enjoyed the editing too and find it very pleasant to watch. Whiplash Original Short Film Cheesy Buzz 1.33K subscribers 21K views 5 months ago #Whiplash Please support the channel for as little as $1 Monthly: https://bit.ly/3WpBMjj One Time:. Following several years of solo law practice, Walters commenced his film producing career in 2003, specializing in the financing of independent features. It was one of Metacritic's 20 best-reviewed films of 2010 and appeared on the best-of lists of The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Film Comment and The Boston Phoenix. opened with an average of $13,108 in 272 theaters. Both films premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Having committed the music to memory, Andrew gets the opportunity to play. The short film was a hit at Sundance in 2013, winning the Short Film Grand Jury prize and earning Chazelle the financing he needed to dive full-on into the abyss of obsession, abuse, and . Earlier films include Universal's 'NIGHT, MOTHER, starring Sissy Spacek and Anned Bancroft, Sony's A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, and PERSONS UNKNOWN, directed by George Hickenlooper and starring Naomi Watts, Kelly Lynch and Joe Mantegna. 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. Boyhood garnered 47% of the total vote, and Birdman 46%, giving the Linklater epic the tiniest of edges. More We are still waiting for the DGA nominations to be announced, but we had the first major awards show on Sunday. Chazelle finished writing the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a "very competitive" jazz band in high school. He currently is a member of the Academy, is on the Sundance Institute's Director's Advisory Group and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Group Theater in New York City. in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1993 and cut his teeth in commercial editing in NYC. On a serious note, while my job is all about movies and I love watching movies, I love paying attention to box office numbers, I even love Awards Season.
Feature Films That Began As Shorts: Watch The Original 'Whiplash' And For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary. It also reached its first major milestone over the weekend and will earn more in the future. The final film in the $10,000 club was Awake: The Life of Yogananda with an opening of $18,885 in one theater. Lancaster has been involved in the development, finance, production and distribution of over 35 motion pictures and several major stage plays and television series since his start in the entertainment business in the early 1980s. 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. See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. Enraged, Andrew attacks Fletcher onstage but is pulled away by security and expelled from Shaffer. She met Jason Blum when she was hired to help cast the wildly successful Paranormal Activity 2.
VOTD: Side-By-Side Comparison Of 'Whiplash' And The Short Film That Melissa Benoist (Nicole) just wrapped production on the feature Imagine, opposite Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner, Christopher Plummer and Annette Bening for director Dan Fogelman. To Andrew's surprise, the next day, Fletcher requests that he be transferred into his band. Benoist got her start in the independent film Tennessee. She has worked with Academy Award winning directors, such as: Steven Spielberg, Mike Nichols, Sam Mendes and Steven Soderbergh; as well as acclaimed up-and-comers, like: Craig Brewer, Sasha Gervasi and most recently, Whiplash director, Damien Chazelle. At BOLD, Lancaster oversaw the cult sensation DRIVE, starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Best Director award at Cannes), which was released by FILMDISTRICT and grossed over $80 million worldwide. Whiplash J.K. Simmons - H 2014. [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. Spielberg then hired her to be his US Casting Consultant on the Oscar nominated film, Munich. Paul Reiser and his family currently reside in Los Angeles. These great short films, and many others would NOT have fit into the viral mold. Richard Linklater is favorite to win Best Director, perhaps in part because hes more due for the award than Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. This winter, JK will start shooting NBC's new comedy "Growing Up Fisher" opposite Jenna Elfman. 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. Walters served as Executive Producer on BLACK BOX. It's difficult to give Damien Chazelle's short film Whiplash, a seventeen minute long scene that is created almost verbatim in the feature-length film with a much more sophisticated production and a larger budget, a fair assessment, given the obvious limitations and the lack of polish. There were a trio of new limited releases topping the per theater chart, led by St. Vincent with an average of $27,470 in four theaters. Next, he edited THE SPACE BETWEEN and ANY DAY NOW for director Travis Fine.
Whiplash (2013) - Whiplash (2013) - User Reviews - IMDb He most recently finished shooting the independent film WHIPLASH opposite Miles Teller and JK Simmons. It is nearly at $1 million and has room to grow further. The nearer to perfection Andrew gets, the narrower his circle of intimates becomes until he is left only with Fletcher and even that relationship is jeopardized by the ferocity of Andrew's ambitions.
Top 6 Reasons to Write A Short Film - WeScreenplay He is currently in pre-production on MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN that he adapted from the novel by Chad Kultgen.
Whiplash - Short Film by Damien Chazelle (HD/Blu-Ray) Also upcoming is Ryan Gosling's directorial debut LOST RIVER, starring Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn, and Eva Mendes, which debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival. In 2011, Reiser created, executive-produced and starred in, "The Paul Reiser Show" which aired on NBC in the Spring of that year. Finally, P.K. He composed the songs and score for Damien Chazelle's 2010 film musical GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH. She established her company CatchLight in 1999 and has served as an executive producer for the romantic comedies In the Weeds and Amy's Orgasm. Seventeen films earned two or more nods, led by Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, both of which picked up nine nominations, while The Imitation Game was right behind with eight. Andrews passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of both his abilityand his sanity. His pal got the lead and Miles was cast as 'Willard,' the best friend. Damien Chazelle (Director, Writer) was born in 1985, and wrote and directed his first feature film, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, while an undergraduate at Harvard University. 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". 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). It sold 1.99 million units generating $37.59 million in the process. 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. Her most recent project as production designer was for the feature film Lazarus, directed by David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi) starring Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde. Terri Taylor (Casting Director) has worked on over 40 feature films over the course of her almost 20-year career in casting. He is known for playing the character J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider Man trilogy. In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. He rents a car but arrives late and forgets his sticks at the rental office. Months later, Andrew encounters Fletcher playing piano at a jazz club. Whiplash - Short Film by Damien Chazelle (HD/Blu-Ray) dvdextras 1.09K subscribers Subscribe 8.3K Save 239K views 2 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines) Almost. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band, forever changing the young mans life. For the third weekend in a row, Birdman led the per theater chart. That catalyst led him to attend both the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem and the prestigious Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television, where he received numerous scholarships and cinematography awards. He is currently filming EYE IN THE SKY with Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi, and Alan Rickman, directed by Gavin Hood in Cape Town, South Africa. Like with the Independent Spirit Awards, Birdman led the way this time earning four nominations from six categories, while Boyhood, The Imitation Game, and The Theory of Everything had three nods each. A muscular and accomplished work of kinetic cinema built around two tremendous acting performances. 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.