It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer and an abusive bandleader. This would be stunning for a visually intensive action film aimed at Fanboys. The Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced Wednesday morning. Whiplash premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014, as the festival's opening film; it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for drama. [18][19], The soundtrack album was released on October 7, 2014, via Varse Sarabande label. The feature film was done on a very small (for a Hollywood movie) budget of about $3.3 million. Jason sent me both . 8th Matthew Jacobs and Christopher Rosen. 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. In 2010, Sony released his apocalyptic thriller LEGION, which starred Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid and grossed over $75 million worldwide. These great short films, and many others would NOT have fit into the viral mold. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News. Other Executive Producing credits at Bold include the Sony release, LEGION starring Paul Bettany; THE HOLE 3D from visionary director Joe Dante; 2008 Toronto Film Festival Official Selection MIDDLE OF NOWHERE starring Susan Sarandon and Anton Yelchin; MINI'S FIRST TIME starring Nikki Reed, Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, Carrie Anne Moss & Jeff Goldblum; 2006 Sundance Dramatic Competition Selection COME EARLY MORNING starring Ashley Judd; director Olatunde Osunsanmi's found footage thriller EVIDENCE starring Stephen Moyer and Radha Mitchell; and Nicolas Winding Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES starring Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. This list is going to be a little shorter than I wanted a lot shorter actually. Blumhouse's The Purge, its first production under its first-look deal with Universal Pictures, opened to more than $34 million on its opening weekend of June 7th, with a budget of just $3 million. Since each film is so different, we can't give you exact percentages of where your funding should go, or how much each category needs. Courtesy of New York Film Festival. In addition to co-creating and starring in the critically acclaimed NBC series, "Mad About You," which garnered him multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Reiser this year starred opposite Matt Damon and Michael Douglas in the Steven Soderbergh-directed HBO movie "Behind The Candelabra", a film that won eleven primetime Emmy's. The Grand Budapest Hotel took home five awards, while Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash earned three each. As an associate, she helped cast Catch Me If You Can, Traffic, Road To Perdition, Galaxy Quest and The Legend of Baggar Vance, to name a few. The screenplay appeared on the 2012 Black List, and the short won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Pre-weekend projections had the film closer to $30 million, and with an $80 million price tag, and Brad Pitt starring, the film is really underperforming at this point. A teacher who is very ecigeant and maybe the nostalgy of a student who have huge opportunity and the pressure about that. Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 hit Thank You For Smoking. One night, Terence Fletcher, a conductor equally known for his talent for teaching as he is for the terrifying method of his instruction, discovers Andrew practicing the drums. 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. The Writers Guild of America nominations were latest to be announced, but were there any real surprises? More We are still waiting for the DGA nominations to be announced, but we had the first major awards show on Sunday. 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. See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. 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. Terri Taylor (Casting Director) has worked on over 40 feature films over the course of her almost 20-year career in casting. A drumstick against a drum head. Recent features include the award winning DRIVE starring Gosling and directed by Nicolas Refn, ONLY GOD FORGIVES starring Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas; and EVIDENCE starring Stephen Moyer, Radha Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto and Caitlin Stasey. Birdman didn't get a nomination, but Guardians of the Galaxy did. The polls are closed in our 18th annual Predict the Academy Awards contest, and it has turned out to be the most exciting two-horse race in the history of the contest. Sharone Meir (Director of Photography) was born in Israel, and his interest in film began with photography classes in high school. Andrew subsequently abandons drumming. Though the act further alienates him from his fellow musicians, the band nonetheless wins the competition, and he seems poised to become Fletcher's new "favorite son.". Production. Litvak recently wrapped production on HOW TO CATCH A MONSTER, his third production with Academy Award-nominated actor Ryan Gosling. [41], Whiplash was originally planned to compete for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but on January 6, 2015, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced that the film would instead be competing in the Adapted Screenplay category[42] to the surprise of many including Chazelle,[43] due to the short film premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (one year before the feature film's release), even though the feature film's script was written first and the short was made to attract investors into producing the feature-length film. It earned seven nominations, while Boyhood and The Imitation Game tied for second with five apiece. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; and Stretch for Universal. [11] The feature-length film was financed for $3.3 million by Bold Films. In addition to his ongoing career in cinematography, Sharone continues to explore still photography with large format fine art projects. In television, Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Lionsgate and is working on both scripted and non-scripted projects. The movie garnered much attention and praise for its ensemble cast of Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johanson, Jessica Beal and Toni Collette. For her effort, Taylor was nominated for Casting Society of America's ARTIOS Award. She met Jason Blum when she was hired to help cast the wildly successful Paranormal Activity 2. Paul Reiser (Jim) is a seasoned actor, writer, producer and stand-up comedian and continues to add to his list of accomplishments. Making of 'Whiplash': How a 20-Something Shot His Harrowing Script in For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary. 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. Ironically Miles was cast once again as Willard, but this time in the new Paramount film Footloose, which was released in October 2011. Munchausen made waves upon release in large part due to Aster's impressive direction. Metacritic collected lists published by major film critics and publications and in their analysis, recorded that Whiplash appeared on 57 lists and in 1st place on 5 of those lists. [5] The film opened in limited release domestically in the United States and Canada on October 10, 2014, gradually expanding to over 500 screens and finally closing on March 26, 2015. 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. Whiplash (2013 film) - Wikipedia [15] The film was shot in 20 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. Jeanette Volturno Brill (Executive Producer) has more than 20 years of production experience working in the film, television and music video industries. 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. Still, shorts will most likely have a more manageable budget and production schedule, making them more accessible to filmmakers. It has gone on to be. For one, the relationship between Andrew and his father was introduced early on in the film but was never really developed or resolved. [2], On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored 94% based on 303 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. Whiplash (Short 2013) - IMDb J.K. Simmons: The friendly face behind this year's scariest villain Watch: Whiplash, The Short | Filmmaker Magazine Jason Reitman (Executive Producer) premiered his first short film, Operation, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. More Fury will top the box office chart this weekend with a solid, but unspectacular, $23.5 million, according to Sonys Sunday morning estimate. Whiplash (2014) Summary News Box Office International Video Sales Full Financials Cast & Crew Trailer Synopsis Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. [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. After working on Wall Street as a financial consultant for Johnson & Higgins and serving as a corporate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Walters moved to Los Angeles and entered show business via the entertainment law division of Loeb & Loeb. 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But at the band's next competition, in an act of either serendipity or sabotage, the core drummer's sheet music is misplaced. In the past two years, Blumhouse, a director driven company that helps filmmakers like James DeMonaco, Scott Derrickson and James Wan tell genre stories that they are passionate about, has produced eight movies that far out-grossed their budgets on opening weekend. 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. [6] Chazelle said he wrote the film "initially in frustration" while trying to get his musical La La Land off the ground. With some emotions and some ctritics. He invites Andrew to perform with his band at the JVC Jazz Festival, assuring him that the songs will be the same ones played by the Studio Band; Andrew hesitantly accepts. Whiplash (2014) - Financial Information - The Numbers "A work of bravura filmmaking. Blum's model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000, released by Paramount Pictures, and grossed close to $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in the history of Hollywood. The Imitation Game led the way on the per theater chart with an incredible average of $119,838 in four theaters. Taylor started her casting career as an assistant and then associate to reputed casting director Debra Zane. 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 . The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. 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. March 15, 2021 | Indie Film Hustle Whiplash is a 2013 drama short film written and directed by Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle. Today we look at the biggest prize, Best Picture. Are there surprises worth mentioning? Song of the Sea was next with $17,967 in one theater. After directing the super low budget "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" in 2009, . [43], At the 87th Academy Awards, J. K. Simmons received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, Tom Cross won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Foxcatcher earned an average of $19,764 in 24 theaters. Other credits include Yahoo's THE FUZZ and HBO's FUNNY OR DIE PRESENTS. Yes. He later got the funding and made his original film. Foxcatcher was the latest Oscar-hopeful to top the per theater chart earning an average of $45,146 in six theaters. Ultimately, that's one of the decisions you, as a film's director, must make. He also played Vern Schillinger on HBO's acclaimed drama "Oz," and had a recurring role as Dr. Emil Skoda on NBC's "Law & Order." 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. For Halloween 2012, Blumhouse built The Blumhouse of Horrors, an innovative and frightening haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. There are a few categories where the film I really think deserves the award were not even nominated, plus a few I don't have a real opinion on. The other big story about this years contest is just how much of a two-horse contest it really is. [2] It expanded to 88 locations, then 419 locations. Andrew Neiman is a first-year student and jazz drummer at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York City, hoping one day to leave a legacy like that of his childhood idol, jazz drummer Buddy Rich. Compare this performance with other movies. opened with an average of $13,108 in 272 theaters. Script to Screen: Whiplash - Carsey-Wolf Center While Big Hero 6 wasn't the only new release on the Blu-ray sales chart this week, it might as well have been. This film will hit major milestones very soon. The BAFTA winners were announced on Sunday and there were a few surprises, including the number one winner. It depicts the relationship between an impassioned and gifted jazz drummer ( Johnny Simmons) and an abusive bandleader ( J. K. Simmons ). At this point, the film has already earned some measure of mainstream success, while it still has room to grow. The final film in the $10,000 club was Awake: The Life of Yogananda with an opening of $18,885 in one theater. Boyhood garnered 47% of the total vote, and Birdman 46%, giving the Linklater epic the tiniest of edges. 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. This winter, JK will start shooting NBC's new comedy "Growing Up Fisher" opposite Jenna Elfman. 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. His latest film, Labor Day, which he adapted from the novel by Joyce Maynard and stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, will be released on December 27 by Paramount. As the piece finishes, Andrew continues into an extended, unexpected solo. 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. In addition to his academic achievements, Walters also has the rare distinction of being a winner on JEOPARDY. 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 . Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) Claudia Puig. The short caught the attention of critics and audiences when it premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best U.S. Short Film. In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. 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. Meanwhile, the nominees I want to win, but don't think will win, are Underlined. He then entered the independent film world as an Assistant Editor on such films as Ang Lee's Civil War drama RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and Rob Schmidt's horror film WRONG TURN, before becoming the Additional Editor on James Gray's WE OWN THE NIGHT and TWO LOVERS. 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. 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. In addition to editing the feature version of WHIPLASH, Cross recently cut the feature film TIME LAPSE for director Bradley King. Plus, predictable probably means the Awards Season voters are making the right choices, as surprises usually mean someone made the wrong choice. He has served as Executive Producer on all of Bold's pictures, most notably the critically acclaimed DRIVE directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and the Golden Globe Nominated RFK drama BOBBY, featuring a star studded ensemble cast that included Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Shia LaBeouf, Demi Moore and Martin Sheen. [citation needed]. The Golden Globes winners were announced Sunday night and while there were not a lot of surprises, there are some things worth talking about. Television projects include the 13-episode television drama THE BLACK BOX for the ABC Television Network, which just aired its season finale, and Syfy's new series DOMINION based on Bold's feature film LEGION. Growing up in Connecticut, STOWELL was a competitive athlete. Blumhouse's Los Angeles-based movie production team used its expertise in horror film production, storytelling, and movie set design to transform the Variety Arts Theater into a fully-immersive and chillingly intense Halloween attraction. It also reached $1 million in the process, barely. From Script To Short To Feature: Whiplash - Willamette Writers 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. At first, Andrew is an "alternate," confined to turning the pages of the "core" drummer. Right of Way has a first-look deal with Indian Paintbrush with whom they made the Duplass Brothers' film JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME and Reitman's previous feature, YOUNG ADULT. The best new release of the week was Wild with an average of $28,896 in 21 theaters. As for the actual nominations, like with the Independent Spirit Awards and the SAG nominations, Birdman led the way. In addition to editing the feature . Even though Fletcher says very little to him that night, he ignites in Andrew a passion to achieve his goal. 2005 saw the release of, "The Thing About My Folks," Reiser's first original screenplay in which he starred alongside Oscar-winning actors Peter Falk and Olympia Dukakis. in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1993 and cut his teeth in commercial editing in NYC. Its opening week Blu-ray share was 67%, which is stunning. It is the short film that the Oscar winning feature film is based on. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. "[33] Henry Barnes of The Guardian gave the film a positive review, calling it a rare film "about music that professes its love for the music and its characters equally. She most recently produced Reitman's film, LABOR DAY, starring Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet, which will be in theaters January 31st. Benoist beat out 900 other girls nationwide to land the new female leading role of "Marley" on FOX's hit show "Glee.". [24] Whiplash grossed $13.1 million in the U.S. and Canada and $35.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $49 million against a budget of $3.3 million. For March 2015 THE COUP, which stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell will be released by The Weinstein Company. 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. Impressed, Fletcher nods in approval before cueing the finale. It sold 1.99 million units generating $37.59 million in the process. They also produced the feature version of the Sundance-winning short WHIPLASH, directed by Damien Chazelle, and will serve as executive producers on DEMOLITION, which Jean Marc Vallee will direct from the script by Bryan Sipe. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; . He graduated Summa Cum Laude from high school and auditioned for Julliard and New York University. Astounding. 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. Jason Blum, the man who made $193m on a $15,000 film budget Walters was born in New York, the son of legendary music agent, Norby Walters. The overall number one film, Dumb and Dumber To, was next with an average of $11,450, while The Homesman was right behind with an average of $11,358 in four theaters. However, it was a Wednesday release and it earned $13,145 over five days. I hate ceremonies. "[34] In The New Yorker, Richard Brody said,"Whiplash honors neither jazz nor cinema. Not only did it crush the competition for the week, it is already the best selling Blu-ray of 2015 by a massive margin. Chazelle said that between takes, Simmons was "as sweet as can be", which he credits for keeping "the shoot from being nightmarish". Then a third and a fourth. 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. This means both will have 2014 as the year. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He is also producing and financing THE BLACK BOX, a 13-episode drama scheduled to air on the ABC Television Network, and DOMINION, a TV series for the SyFy Channel. Many of the band members were real musicians or music students, and Chazelle tried to capture their expressions of fear and anxiety when Simmons pressed them. 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. Last year, Taylor cast the critically acclaimed Hitchcock, directed by Sasha Gervasi. 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. Whiplash (2013) - Whiplash (2013) - User Reviews - IMDb There were some surprises, as well as some results that would have been surprises had it not been for the previous Awards Season nominations. Top 6 Reasons to Write A Short Film - WeScreenplay She guest starred on "Blue Bloods," "The Good Wife" and "Law & Order SVU" SVU before her arc on Showtime's critically acclaimed series "Homeland."