A provocative, at times terrifying piece of filmmaking, you don't have to like it to recognize the quality of Damien Chazelle 's Oscar winning film, Whiplash: BLACK We hear a HIT. 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. and they suggested making the short as a device to generate a budget for the feature, which obviously worked out great. 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. It has gone on to be. Andrew crawls from the wreckage and runs to the theater, arriving just as the ensemble enters the stage. Not only did it crush the competition for the week, it is already the best selling Blu-ray of 2015 by a massive margin. 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.". [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. In 2003 Reiser made his theatrical debut in Woody Allen's "Writer's Block." 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. Birdman led the way with 3 wins, but it wasn't the only film to come away with more than one award. Austin Stowell (Ryan) is one of the industry's most promising rising stars with an enviable slate of upcoming films. 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. In 2012, he starred opposite Liam Hemsworth in LOVE AND HONOR, winning the lead role over Hollywood's most in-demand young actors. Benoist beat out 900 other girls nationwide to land the new female leading role of "Marley" on FOX's hit show "Glee.". [3][4] 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 . Also this year, Reiser can be seen in two highly anticipated Sundance Film Festival contenders; "Life After Beth," a horror-comedy starring Aubrey Plaza and Oscar-nominees Anna Kendrick and John C. Reilly; and "Whiplash," based on a 2013 Sundance-winning short film of the same name starring JK Simmons and Sundance Festival favorite Miles Teller. 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 . For one, the relationship between Andrew and his father was introduced early on in the film but was never really developed or resolved. 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. Production. 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. He has had guest starring roles on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," and a recurring role on TBS' new hit comedy "Men at Work. 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. At first, Andrew is an "alternate," confined to turning the pages of the "core" drummer. Other motion picture credits include Hidalgo, The Ladykillers, The Mexican, Off the Map, For Love of the Game, The Gift, Thank You for Smoking, Rendition, Burn After Reading and, memorably, his portrayal of the off-beat but not deadbeat father, Mac McGuff, in the hit comedy Juno. Since graduating from AFI, Sharone has established himself as a distinctly unique cinematographer, shooting a remarkable variety of projects, including the award-winning indie drama MEAN CREEK, the dark and disturbing LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, the sports drama COACH CARTER and the period musical DARK STREETS. [2], On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored 94% based on 303 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything each gathered a handful of votes from The Numbers readers, and Selma and Whiplash are given virtually no chance at all. 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. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. This includes Inherent Vice, which led the way for the second time in a row earning an average of $29,055 in five theaters. The film featured Simmons as the jazz band conductor still, but it had Johnny Simmons . 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. are available through our research services. On the small screen Simmons played LAPD Assistant Chief Will Pope in TNT's hit series "The Closer." Walters served as Executive Producer on BLACK BOX. Taylor has been married for 18 years to Gregg Taylor, the Head of Development for Dreamworks Animation. Since that time, Walters has played a vital role in the growth and success of the company, establishing Bold Films/Sierra Affinity partnership and redefining the direction of company's slate, placing a firm focus on studio caliber features with top tier filmmakers and A-List talent. 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. My Internet Provider decided it would be a good idea to do maintenance tonight, so I was without internet access for several hours. She also worked as a studio executive for Paramount Pictures where she helped oversee No Strings Attached, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Super 8, Footloose and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue There were some surprises, as well as some results that would have been surprises had it not been for the previous Awards Season nominations. He is currently in pre-production on MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN that he adapted from the novel by Chad Kultgen. The evening of one-act comedies marked Mr. Allen's first time out as a director for the stage. The Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced Wednesday morning. He previously worked at Paramount, where he produced that studio's upcoming micro budget comedy Drunk Weddings. Andrew subsequently abandons drumming. 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. The best new release of the week was Wild with an average of $28,896 in 21 theaters. The Grand Budapest Hotel took home five awards, while Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash earned three each. Like gunfire INT. Taylor first met Chazelle when producer Jason Blum introduced them on the short-film version of Whiplash. Sharone Meir (Director of Photography) was born in Israel, and his interest in film began with photography classes in high school. Soon after, Right of Way Films and Blumhouse Productions helped Chazelle turn 15 pages of the script into an 18-minute short film, also titled Whiplash. Birdman picked up the biggest prize, but there were six different winners in the six categories. on Mar 2, 2015 Damien Chazelle, Short Film, Whiplash Initially unable to raise the $3 million budget for Whiplash, Damien Chazelle made a proof of concept, 18-minute short film that premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. 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. 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. ", "'WHIPLASH' careens into the unexpected before coming to a jaw-dropping close. Born and raised in New York City, Reiser attended the State University of New York at Binghamton where he majored in Music Piano and Composition.
J.K. Simmons: The friendly face behind this year's scariest villain 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. 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. I want to see a monster, a gargoyle, an animal." 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:. 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. 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] Chazelle said he wrote the film "initially in frustration" while trying to get his musical La La Land off the ground. Together with the editor Tom Cross, who edited both the original and the feature film, great.
'Whiplash': An Example of Brilliant Writing, Directing, and Editing Earlier films included the 2006 Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture BOBBY, directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Shia Lebouf, William H. Macy and Sharon Stone. As a result he was recruited to attend a six-week performing arts class in New York City at the New York School for Film and TV. Are there surprises worth mentioning? [15] The film was shot in 20 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. Since Tanner cannot play without the sheets, Andrew replaces him for the next set. [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. [12] Early on, Chazelle gave J. K. Simmons direction that "I want you to take it past what you think the normal limit would be," telling him: "I don't want to see a human being on-screen any more. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com. 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. Aspiring directors use this medium to create a proof of concept on a small budget that can go on to w See production, box office & company info. 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. [27][28], Peter Debruge, in his review for Variety, said that the film "demolishes the cliches of the musical-prodigy genre, investing the traditionally polite stages and rehearsal studios of a topnotch conservatory with all the psychological intensity of a battlefield or sports arena. Other credits include Yahoo's THE FUZZ and HBO's FUNNY OR DIE PRESENTS. [18][19], The soundtrack album was released on October 7, 2014, via Varse Sarabande label. This is the second best per theater average of the year, behind only The Grand Budapest Hotel. 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. 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. She produced of the World Festival of Sacred Music documentaries, which were inspired and hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 not only earned first place on the overall box office, but it also led the way on the per theater chart with an average of $29,366. He is currently filming Divergent, based on the best-selling novel by Veronica Roth, which has been compared to similar young adult books such as The Hunger Games. Filming took place in September 2013 throughout Los Angeles in the course of 20 days. Overall, the top voter-getters in 18 out 24 categories went on to win the Oscar on the night, including all acting awards, all but one of the technical awards, and all the short films. He is known for playing the character J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider Man trilogy. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. 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. If I predicted a different film, those are in Italics. ", "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? Earlier this year, JK wrapped shooting Marc Lawrence's film, The Reluctant Professor opposite Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei and as well as Gillian Raimi's next feature Murder of a Cat. "[29] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised the performances of Teller and Simmons, writing: "Teller, who greatly impressed in last year's Sundance entry The Spectacular Now, does so again in a performance that is more often simmering than volatile Simmons has the great good fortune for a character actor to have here found a co-lead part he can really run with, which is what he excitingly does with a man who is profane, way out of bounds and, like many a good villain, utterly compelling. Secondly, the headlines are just going to be the name of the Awards and either nominations or winners. 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. Directors Like 'Whiplash's' Damien Chazelle Drum Up Attention With Short Films. STOWELL broke onto the movie scene in 2011 with a compelling performance in DOLPHIN TALE, opposite Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr. and Ashley Judd. 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 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. Damien Chazelle had written the Whiplash screenplay well before he even considered making it a short film. Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 hit Thank You For Smoking. Speaking of expanding, The Imitation Game expanded from 25 theaters to 34 theaters earning an average of $25,253 in the process. Finally, P.K. In 2014, he co-stars in film projects including WHIPLASH opposite Miles Teller; BEHAVING BADLY opposite Selena Gomez; and DOLPHIN TALE 2, the sequel to Warner Bros' 2011 hit film. These great short films, and many others would NOT have fit into the viral mold. Still, shorts will most likely have a more manageable budget and production schedule, making them more accessible to filmmakers. The feature film was done on a very small (for a Hollywood movie) budget of about $3.3 million. Next, he edited THE SPACE BETWEEN and ANY DAY NOW for director Travis Fine. Determined to impress Fletcher, Andrew intensifies his drum practicing. 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. The Producers Guild of America nominations were announced and there's not a lot of surprises among the three categories. Last year, Taylor cast the critically acclaimed Hitchcock, directed by Sasha Gervasi.
Whiplash: Cracking the whip | Features | Screen Bold recently expanded into television with two dramatic series in summer 2014 with Syfy's DOMINION, based on Bold's feature film, LEGION and ABC Television Network's BLACK BOX, the 13-episode drama starring Keilly Reilly and Vanessa Redgrave. The hits growing so fast they start to blur together.
Whiplash (2013) - Whiplash (2013) - User Reviews - IMDb Very good short. 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. He later got the funding and made his original film. More Fury will top the box office chart this weekend with a solid, but unspectacular, $23.5 million, according to Sonys Sunday morning estimate. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits. Boyhood garnered 47% of the total vote, and Birdman 46%, giving the Linklater epic the tiniest of edges. However, Andrew is taken aback when Fletcher abruptly gives the position to Ryan Connolly, a drummer from a lower-level ensemble within Shaffer. Song of the Sea was next with $17,967 in one theater. He was educated at both Princeton University, where he majored in Statistics and Fordham Law School, where he graduated cum laude. 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. He is originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts. In fact, it was a comedy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, that earned the most nominations at 11. Like the intensely single-minded drummer Miles Teller plays in " Whiplash ," its writer-director, Damien . 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. His monologue was impressive enough to represent his district at the state event. For a family film, it is hard to comprehend. Today we look at the two supporting actor categories, finishing with Best Supporting Actor. (Editor). Firstly, I've decided to use the year the movies were released not the year the awards are handed out, unlike what we did last year. Damien Chazelle never wanted to make a short. The Theory of Everything expanded again, but still remained in the $10,000 club with an average of $10,798 in 141 theaters. [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. In 2014, he wrote and directed his second feature film Whiplash, based on his award-winning short film Whiplash (2013). Unfortunately, two of these films will likely not do well in theaters. Chazelle finished writing the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a "very competitive" jazz band in high school. Reiser co-wrote "The Final Frontier" the theme song from "Mad About You" with Grammy-winning producer Don Was, and in 2011 he released an album of original songs with British Singer/songwriter Julia Fordham called "Unusual Suspects.". During this period, he produced a number of features including STANDING STILL starring James Van Der Beek, Mena Suvari and Colin Hanks; and I LOVE YOUR WORK starring Vince Vaughn, Christina Ricci, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee and Franka Potente. March 2, 2015 6:22pm. 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. Munchausen made waves upon release in large part due to Aster's impressive direction. The majority of films average about five pages, and a low-budgets can plan to shoot as many as ten. ", "'WHIPLASH' will have audiences cheering and begging for an encore. A drumstick against a drum head. Had it opened on Friday instead, it very likely would have reached the $10,000 club. Andrew even elicits a sharp word from his otherwise mild-mannered father. "[34] In The New Yorker, Richard Brody said,"Whiplash honors neither jazz nor cinema.
Jason Blum, the man who made $193m on a $15,000 film budget