Today we look at the two supporting actor categories, finishing with Best Supporting Actor. ", "'WHIPLASH' will have audiences cheering and begging for an encore. 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The Theory of Everything expanded again, but still remained in the $10,000 club with an average of $10,798 in 141 theaters. Still, shorts will most likely have a more manageable budget and production schedule, making them more accessible to filmmakers. The Golden Globes winners were announced Sunday night and while there were not a lot of surprises, there are some things worth talking about. and they suggested making the short as a device to generate a budget for the feature, which obviously worked out great. 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. Determined to impress Fletcher, Andrew intensifies his drum practicing. At first, Andrew is an "alternate," confined to turning the pages of the "core" drummer. [22], In North America, the film opened in a limited release on October 10, 2014, in 6 theaters, grossing $135,388 ($22,565 per theater) and finishing 34th at the box office. 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In 2011, Reiser created, executive-produced and starred in, "The Paul Reiser Show" which aired on NBC in the Spring of that year. Post-production. An interesting short that will make you maybe want to watch the full movie. 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 . Lancaster also returned to Broadway this season with the multiple Tony award winning musical production of The Bridges of Madison County, after previously producing the Pulitzer Prize winning, 'night, Mother, both with (long time colleague) Marsha Norman. Meanwhile, Zero Motivation just missed the $10,000 club with $9,427 in one theater. Even though Fletcher says very little to him that night, he ignites in Andrew a passion to achieve his goal. It is rare that we get to talk about a Bollywood film in the $10,000 club. Having committed the music to memory, Andrew gets the opportunity to play. The actual drummer was Bernie Dresel. 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. [16][15] Chazelle was involved in a serious car accident in the third week of shooting and was hospitalized with possible concussion, but he returned to set the next day to finish the film on time. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Finally there's Whiplash, which could lead the way on the Per Theater Chart. Sony Pictures acquired distribution rights for most of the world, releasing the film under its Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films banners for its North American and international releases, respectively. [10] The film also took the grand prize and the audience award for its favorite film at the 40th Deauville American Film Festival. She guest starred on "Blue Bloods," "The Good Wife" and "Law & Order SVU" SVU before her arc on Showtime's critically acclaimed series "Homeland." Very good short. Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) Claudia Puig. The Imitation Game remained in first place on the per theater chart with an average of $48,658 in 8 theaters over the weekend. Boyhood garnered 47% of the total vote, and Birdman 46%, giving the Linklater epic the tiniest of edges. It also reached $1 million in the process, barely. Blum began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte theater company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke. 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. October 24, 2016 Before Whiplash was an Oscar winner, it was a short film. 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. In fact, this week it was the only one in the $10,000 club earning an average of $10,348 in 231 screens. 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.". Justin Hurwitz (music) graduated from Harvard University in 2008, where he studied music. 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. 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. 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. In case you didn't know, Whiplash was based on a short film of the same name that Chazelle directed in 2013. Chazelle and Blumhouse first made "Whiplash" as an 18-minute short film and when that earned raves at Sundance . Whiplash is an excellent film, one of the best of 2014, but like all movies it has its shortcomings. 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. Leading the way with three wins was Boyhood, while Birdman and The Theory of Everything each picked up a pair of wins. What is the Spanish language plot outline for Whiplash (2013)? Sharone Meir (Director of Photography) was born in Israel, and his interest in film began with photography classes in high school. Austin Stowell (Ryan) is one of the industry's most promising rising stars with an enviable slate of upcoming films. Walters is also a member in good standing with the California Bar Association. 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. More Fury will top the box office chart this weekend with a solid, but unspectacular, $23.5 million, according to Sonys Sunday morning estimate. 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. [15] The film was shot in 20 days, with a schedule of 14 hours of filming per day. 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. [11] The feature-length film was financed for $3.3 million by Bold Films. For a family film, it is hard to comprehend. I Am Ali is a documentary, so it could do well in art house circuits, but its chances of expanding significantly are very limited. [2], On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored 94% based on 303 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. 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. The predicted Best Picture winner is, in fact, a statistical dead heat. Is the Oscar picture beginning to take shape? A muscular and accomplished work of kinetic cinema built around two tremendous acting performances. Taylor first met Chazelle when producer Jason Blum introduced them on the short-film version of Whiplash. His monologue was impressive enough to represent his district at the state event. Vana as Metz, a trombonist who gets dismissed by Fletcher mid-rehearsal, Adrian Rashad Driscoll as Reed, a trombonist. This is also a two-horse race, but one of the horses has a significant, but not insurmountable lead. Compare this performance with other movies. For Halloween 2012, Blumhouse built The Blumhouse of Horrors, an innovative and frightening haunted house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. 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.". Last year, Taylor cast the critically acclaimed Hitchcock, directed by Sasha Gervasi. At this point, the film has already earned some measure of mainstream success, while it still has room to grow. 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. This list is going to be a little shorter than I wanted a lot shorter actually. Overall the film was ranked in 5th place for the year by Metacritic. The other contender is the Criterion Collection release for Watership Down (Blu-ray). 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. Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 hit Thank You For Smoking. 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 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. 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. Because sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles. 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. Jeanette Volturno Brill (Executive Producer) has more than 20 years of production experience working in the film, television and music video industries. 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. In a MovieMaker Magazine post, we learn the script received a fair amount of buzz, and the feedback was generally pretty positive.. He is originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts. 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. In 2016, Sundance received 9000 short film submissions (compared to 4000 feature films) and only about 60 were selected to screen. It sold 1.99 million units generating $37.59 million in the process. His pal got the lead and Miles was cast as 'Willard,' the best friend. As for the actual nominations, like with the Independent Spirit Awards and the SAG nominations, Birdman led the way. Onstage at JVC, before the first piece, Fletcher reveals that he knows Andrew testified against him. It is the short film that the Oscar winning feature film is based on. Second place went to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, with an average of $13,725 during its sophomore stint. More We are still waiting for the DGA nominations to be announced, but we had the first major awards show on Sunday. Months later, Andrew encounters Fletcher playing piano at a jazz club. Michel Litvak (Producer) is a Belgian industrialist who founded the independent production and finance company Bold Films in 2004. In 2012, Brill joined Blumhouse Productions as Head of Production. 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. 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. Initially angered, Fletcher resumes conducting. 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. Yes. This includes Inherent Vice, which led the way for the second time in a row earning an average of $29,055 in five theaters. It has gone on to be. With a dedication to making commercial films with artistic vision, Litvak has diversified the company's slate by developing films in a wide variety of genres that include dramas, thrillers, sci-fi and independent festival favorites. For her effort, Taylor was nominated for Casting Society of America's ARTIOS Award. He rents a car but arrives late and forgets his sticks at the rental office. 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. Heavily injured, he struggles to play "Caravan," and Fletcher halts the performance to dismiss him from the band. Damien Chazelle had written the Whiplash screenplay well before he even considered making it a short film. In addition to his ongoing career in cinematography, Sharone continues to explore still photography with large format fine art projects. 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. Litvak recently wrapped production on HOW TO CATCH A MONSTER, his third production with Academy Award-nominated actor Ryan Gosling. This will make it easier for readers to find later on. The film was was nominated at the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards and was released theatrically in 2010. 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. During his sophomore year he and his best friend auditioned for Footloose because "the Drama Club Counselor was really pretty." Nate Lang (Carl) is an actor, writer and musician based in Los Angeles. She's Beautiful When She's Angry just managed to earn a spot in the $10,000 club with $10,505 in one theater. 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. Anchored by extraordinary performances from Miles Teller and J.K. SimmonsSimmons absolutely dominates every frame of the picture. Whiplash is a 2013 American drama short film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. 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 . 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. Blumhouse also produced the phenomenally successful sequels Paranormal Activity 2, Paranormal Activity 3 and Paranormal Activity 4. [17] For certain scenes, professional drummer Kyle Crane served as Teller's drum double. 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. However, Andrew is taken aback when Fletcher abruptly gives the position to Ryan Connolly, a drummer from a lower-level ensemble within Shaffer. 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. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com. ", "Provocative and emotionally intense. 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. 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.