"[26] Simmons received wide praise for his performance and won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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. 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. It is rare that we get to talk about a Bollywood film in the $10,000 club. October 24, 2016 Before Whiplash was an Oscar winner, it was a short film. Aspiring directors use this medium to create a proof of concept on a small budget that can go on to w "[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. They've ranged from big studio releases to surprise gems from the independent film world. See production, box office & company info. 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. She most recently produced Reitman's film, LABOR DAY, starring Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet, which will be in theaters January 31st. 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. The feature film was done on a very small (for a Hollywood movie) budget of about $3.3 million. 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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. Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, and others continue to get accolades, but there are also some films that are being passed over too often. For a family film, it is hard to comprehend. Anchored by extraordinary performances from Miles Teller and J.K. SimmonsSimmons absolutely dominates every frame of the picture. 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. As revenge, Fletcher leads the band into a song Andrew does not know and does not have the sheet music to. The company's most recent film Insidious: Chapter 2 from FilmDistrict, grossed over $40 million on its opening weekend of September 13th with just a $5m budget. The film was was nominated at the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards and was released theatrically in 2010. The Writers Guild of America nominations were latest to be announced, but were there any real surprises? This isn't at the same level as Frozen opened with, but it is already the second best selling DVD in 2015. The other big story about this years contest is just how much of a two-horse contest it really is. 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. [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. For March 2015 THE COUP, which stars Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, and Lake Bell will be released by The Weinstein Company. The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. The BAFTA winners were announced on Sunday and there were a few surprises, including the number one winner. 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. He has had guest starring roles on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," and a recurring role on TBS' new hit comedy "Men at Work. 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. Jason sent me both . Starting to notice a pattern here? Months later, Andrew encounters Fletcher playing piano at a jazz club. It is the short film that the Oscar winning feature film is based on. Blum began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte theater company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke. The film received multiple awards and nominations, winning Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing, and also being nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Yes. 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. 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. Back in Florida he participated in the Florida State Thespian Festival. The final film in the $10,000 club was Awake: The Life of Yogananda with an opening of $18,885 in one theater. A college recruiter in the audience of this performance offered STOWELL a full scholarship the University of Connecticut Department of Dramatic Arts. The movie garnered much attention and praise for its ensemble cast of Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johanson, Jessica Beal and Toni Collette. After graduating with honors, Sharone moved to Los Angeles to continue his education at the American Film Institute (AFI). For one, the relationship between Andrew and his father was introduced early on in the film but was never really developed or resolved. It sold 1.99 million units generating $37.59 million in the process. By way of comparison, Gone Girl opened with $37.5 million three weeks ago. 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). [6] Chazelle said he wrote the film "initially in frustration" while trying to get his musical La La Land off the ground. Was originally planned to be a feature film but the writer/director could not get funding for it so he made this short film and submitted it to the Sundance film festival. In December 2015, the score received a Grammy nomination, and the film was nominated for the NME Award for Best Film. Besides her career as an independent casting director, Taylor spent time as a casting consultant for Miramax Films, working on such projects as: Adventureland, The Debt and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. He later got the funding and made his original film. It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer and an abusive bandleader. 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. Today we look at the two supporting actor categories, finishing with Best Supporting Actor. 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 depicts the relationship between an impassioned and gifted jazz drummer ( Johnny Simmons) and an abusive bandleader ( J. K. Simmons ). He received his B.F.A. [9] Although the Writers Guild of America categorized the screenplay as original, AMPAS classed it as an adaptation of the 2013 short version. [36], The film received the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival;[40] Chazelle's short film of the same name took home the jury award in the U.S. fiction category one year prior. Not ideal, but it is better to fix the mistake now than carry on making it. 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. From Script To Short To Feature: Whiplash - Willamette Writers Andrew subsequently abandons drumming. Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. Andrew crawls from the wreckage and runs to the theater, arriving just as the ensemble enters the stage. Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles. "[31], Forrest Wickman of Slate said the film distorted jazz history and promoted a misleading idea of genius, adding that "In all likelihood, Fletcher isnt making a Charlie Parker. 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. 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. More We are still waiting for the DGA nominations to be announced, but we had the first major awards show on Sunday. In television, Blumhouse has a first-look deal with Lionsgate and is working on both scripted and non-scripted projects. 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. This practically guarantees some measure of mainstream success; however, unless it can earn some Awards Season nominations, it likely won't expand truly wide. Jeanette Volturno Brill (Executive Producer) has more than 20 years of production experience working in the film, television and music video industries. Onstage at JVC, before the first piece, Fletcher reveals that he knows Andrew testified against him. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. This means both will have 2014 as the year. Reiser is also remembered for notable performances in films such as "Diner," "Bye, Bye Love," "The Marrying Man," "Aliens," "One Night at McCool's" and "Beverly Hills Cop" ("I" and "II"). [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. (Editor). "[35], The film appeared on many critics end-of-year lists. Together with the editor Tom Cross, who edited both the original and the feature film, great. Richard Linklater is favorite to win Best Director, perhaps in part because hes more due for the award than Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Birdman didn't get a nomination, but Guardians of the Galaxy did. The 18-minute short debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 to considerable acclaim and after Chazelle secured his $3.3 million (2.2 million) budget, his feature-length Whiplash. 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. Second place went to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, with an average of $13,725 during its sophomore stint. After a successful performance of "Whiplash," Fletcher promotes Andrew to the core drummer. Post-production. In 2016, Sundance received 9000 short film submissions (compared to 4000 feature films) and only about 60 were selected to screen. He learns that Casey hanged himself due to depression and anxiety caused by Fletcher's abuse. Is the Oscar picture beginning to take shape? Both films premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Paul Reiser and his family currently reside in Los Angeles. Since Tanner cannot play without the sheets, Andrew replaces him for the next set. 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. 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. Sharone Meir (Director of Photography) was born in Israel, and his interest in film began with photography classes in high school. Today we look at the biggest prize, Best Picture. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Fury will need really good legs, or a really strong performance overseas, to post a profit. Damien Chazelle's 'Whiplash' & More: Short Films Help - Variety As for the actual nominations, like with the Independent Spirit Awards and the SAG nominations, Birdman led the way. Blumhouse's franchises include James Wan's Insidious which had a budget of $1.5m and grossed close to $100m worldwide and Sinister, directed and co-written by Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke for Lionsgate/Summit which has grossed over $87 million worldwide on a $3 million budget. The majority of films average about five pages, and a low-budgets can plan to shoot as many as ten. And. It also reached its first major milestone over the weekend and will earn more in the future. [10] The film also took the grand prize and the audience award for its favorite film at the 40th Deauville American Film Festival. 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. More Fury will top the box office chart this weekend with a solid, but unspectacular, $23.5 million, according to Sonys Sunday morning estimate. In addition to his academic achievements, Walters also has the rare distinction of being a winner on JEOPARDY. Feature Films That Began As Shorts: Watch The Original 'Whiplash' And Nate Lang (Carl) is an actor, writer and musician based in Los Angeles. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. Enraged, Andrew attacks Fletcher onstage but is pulled away by security and expelled from Shaffer. "[34] In The New Yorker, Richard Brody said,"Whiplash honors neither jazz nor cinema. Helen Estabrook (Producer) is the producing partner of filmmaker Jason Reitman and runs Right of Way Films. 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. Watch: Whiplash, The Short | Filmmaker Magazine Having committed the music to memory, Andrew gets the opportunity to play. Having completed the score for WHIPLASH in 2014, he and Chazelle are currently prepping their third movie together, LA LA LAND, a song and dance musical for Lionsgate. In addition to editing the feature version of WHIPLASH, Cross recently cut the feature film TIME LAPSE for director Bradley King. This list is going to be a little shorter than I wanted a lot shorter actually. After weeks of intense debate among our voters, we have a virtual tie in the biggest categories of all: Best Picture and Best Director. Jason Reitman and Blumhouse are producing. Since taking that post, she co-produced Dimension Films' Dark Skies in addition to Film District's upcoming Insidious: Chapter 2, among others. Ari Aster Short Films Munchausen, The Johnsons Explained In 2013, Ari Aster released Munchausen, a short film about the proxy disorder of the same name in which a caregiver torments people in their care. In general, the more days of filming the more your film will cost however, a larger budget will attract more experienced crew and arguably the more professional your film will look. This would be stunning for a visually intensive action film aimed at Fanboys. See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. WHIPLASH: A Story of Anger and Ambition - Film Inquiry The Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced last week and I'm getting to them a little late, because I needed to organize the whole Awards Season stories. Damien Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009). We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. J.K. Simmons (Fletcher) has appeared in diverse projects spanning motion pictures, television and the stage on and off Broadway. Whiplash Original Short Film - YouTube J.K. Simmons: The friendly face behind this year's scariest villain 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. 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. 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 . Finally there's Whiplash, which could lead the way on the Per Theater Chart. 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. 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. 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." The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 2014 - Awards Season: Golden Globes - Nominations, Per Theater Chart: Imitation Remains Real, 2014 - Awards Season: Independent Spirit Awards - Nominations, Per Theater Chart: Imitation Scores Game-Winning Goal, Per Theater Chart: Mockingjay Makes a Mockery of the Per Theater Chart, Per Theater Chart: None of the Competition could Catch Foxcatcher, Per Theater Chart: Birdman has the Skies to Himself, Weekend Estimates: Fury an Unspectacular First, Per Theater Chart: Whiplash has a Saintly Opening, Weekend Estimates: Dracula Nearly Gets Girl, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No YaibaTo the Swordsmith Village, 16.64 (domestic box office/biggest weekend), $3,300,000 (worldwide box office is 11.9 times production budget), 6 opening theaters/567 max. Making of 'Whiplash': How a 20-Something Shot His Harrowing Script in VOTD: Side-By-Side Comparison Of 'Whiplash' And The Short Film That March 2, 2015 6:22pm. [6], Principal photography began in September 2013, with filming taking place throughout Los Angeles, including the Hotel Barclay, Palace Theater, and the Orpheum Theatre,[13][14] with a few exterior shots filmed in New York City to create the setting. 8th Matthew Jacobs and Christopher Rosen. New releases earned the top three spots on the DVD sales chart this week. "A work of bravura filmmaking. ", "Provocative and emotionally intense. Austin Stowell (Ryan) is one of the industry's most promising rising stars with an enviable slate of upcoming films. Whiplash is an excellent film, one of the best of 2014, but like all movies it has its shortcomings. Boyhood garnered 47% of the total vote, and Birdman 46%, giving the Linklater epic the tiniest of edges. 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. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from high school and auditioned for Julliard and New York University. Before it was a best picture nominee, Damien Chazelle 's Whiplash started as a short . In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. 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. 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. 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. [15] The film was shot in 20 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. Unfortunately, two of these films will likely not do well in theaters. 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. 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. 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. However, Andrew is taken aback when Fletcher abruptly gives the position to Ryan Connolly, a drummer from a lower-level ensemble within Shaffer. 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. There were some surprises, as well as some results that would have been surprises had it not been for the previous Awards Season nominations. 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. A drumstick against a drum head. In early 2004, European industrial mogul Michel Litvak founded Bold Films along with Walters and hired him as President of the company. Walters continues his role serves as Executive Producer on all of Bold's pictures, including current feature films WHIPLASH, the Sundance 2014 Audience and Drama Jury Awards winner which will be released on October 10, 2014 by Sony Pictures Classics; NIGHTCRAWLER, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo, which will be released by Open Road Films on October 17; THE COUP, starring Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan and Lake Bell which will be released by THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY on March 16, 2015; and LOST RIVER, Bold's third production with Ryan Gosling which marks his debut as writer and director and stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Ben Mendelsohn and Eva Mendes. 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. Blumhouse's upcoming micro-budget wide releases include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones for Paramount; Jessabelle for Lionsgate; and Stretch for Universal.